Transport and infrastructure in Syria

Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Syria with the average of all countries in Asia. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 69,873 km. Theoretically, this is 3.99 meter for each of the 17.50 millions inhabitants of the country. Syria hereby ranks 125th in a worldwide comparison.

With a length of 0.12 meters of railway tracks per person Syria come 78th worldwide.

The given waterways are refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. The number of harbours additionally includes the ones on the 193 km long coastline.

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	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Syria
Roadways	69,900 km	3,992.59 km	377.32 m
Railroads	2,100 km	117.25 km	11.08 m
Waterways	900 km	51.43 km	4.86 m
Commercial harbors	26	1.49	0.000
Airports	90	5.14	0.486

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Asia
Roadways	14,699,500 km	3,192.38 km	459.66 m
Railroads	345,900 km	75.12 km	10.82 m
Waterways	260,300 km	56.53 km	8.14 m
Commercial harbors	45,066	9.79	0.001
Airports	4,349	0.94	0.000

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