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 4.09 meter for each of the 17 millions inhabitants of the country. Syria hereby ranks 119th 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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	Syria			Asia
	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
Roadways	69,900 km	4,093.29 km	377.32 m	14,699,500 km	3,219.33 km	459.66 m
Railroads	2,100 km	120.21 km	11.08 m	345,900 km	75.76 km	10.82 m
Waterways	900 km	52.72 km	4.86 m	260,300 km	57.01 km	8.14 m
Commercial harbors	25	1.46	0.000	43,872	9.61	0.001
Airports	90	5.27	0.486	4,349	0.95	0.000