Transport and infrastructure in Portugal
Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Portugal with the average of all countries in Europe. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 82,900 km. Theoretically, this is 8.07 meter for each of the 10.27 millions inhabitants of the country. Portugal hereby ranks 67th in a worldwide comparison.With a length of 0.30 meters of railway tracks per person Portugal come 52nd worldwide.
The given waterways are refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. The number of harbours additionally includes the ones on the 1,793 km long coastline.
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Portugal | |||
total | per 1 mio inhabitants | per km2 | |
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Roadways | 82,900 km | 8,072.51 km | 898.88 m |
Railroads | 3,100 km | 299.43 km | 33.34 m |
Waterways | 210 km | 20.45 km | 2.28 m |
Commercial harbors | 624 | 60.76 | 0.007 |
Airports | 64 | 6.23 | 0.694 |
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 |