Transport and infrastructure in Turkey
Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Turkey with the average of all countries in Asia. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 67,333 km. Theoretically, this is 0.81 meter for each of the 83.43 millions inhabitants of the country. Turkey hereby ranks 217th in a worldwide comparison.With a length of 0.15 meters of railway tracks per person Turkey come 75th worldwide.
The given waterways are refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. The number of harbours additionally includes the ones on the 7,200 km long coastline.
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Turkey | |||
total | per 1 mio inhabitants | per km2 | |
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Roadways | 67,300 km | 807.06 km | 85.74 m |
Railroads | 12,700 km | 152.34 km | 16.18 m |
Waterways | 1,200 km | 14.38 km | 1.53 m |
Commercial harbors | 1,234 | 14.79 | 0.002 |
Airports | 98 | 1.17 | 0.125 |
Asia | |||
total | per 1 mio inhabitants | per km2 | |
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Roadways | 14,699,500 km | 3,219.35 km | 459.66 m |
Railroads | 345,900 km | 75.76 km | 10.82 m |
Waterways | 260,300 km | 57.01 km | 8.14 m |
Commercial harbors | 44,130 | 9.66 | 0.001 |
Airports | 4,349 | 0.95 | 0.000 |