Transport and infrastructure in Germany
Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Germany with the average of all countries in Europe. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 625,000 km. Theoretically, this is 7.52 meter for each of the 83.13 millions inhabitants of the country. Germany hereby ranks 70th in a worldwide comparison.With a length of 0.40 meters of railway tracks per person Germany come 42nd worldwide.
The given waterways are refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. The number of harbours additionally includes the ones on the 2,389 km long coastline.
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Germany | |||
total | per 1 mio inhabitants | per km2 | |
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Roadways | 625,000 km | 7,518.09 km | 1,747.86 m |
Railroads | 33,600 km | 404.05 km | 93.94 m |
Waterways | 7,467 km | 89.82 km | 20.88 m |
Commercial harbors | 609 | 7.33 | 0.002 |
Airports | 539 | 6.48 | 1.507 |
Europe | |||
total | per 1 mio inhabitants | per km2 | |
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Roadways | 6,708,300 km | 11,141.60 km | 1,111.61 m |
Railroads | 273,500 km | 454.22 km | 45.32 m |
Waterways | 53,100 km | 88.25 km | 8.81 m |
Commercial harbors | 15,036 | 24.97 | 0.002 |
Airports | 3,737 | 6.21 | 0.001 |