Transport and infrastructure in Papua New Guinea
Our listing of the primary kinds of transport compares the infrastructure of Papua New Guinea with the average of all countries in Oceania. The net of streets and highways has a total length of 9,349 km. Theoretically, this is 1.07 meter for each of the 8.8 millions inhabitants of the country. Papua New Guinea hereby ranks 201st in a worldwide comparison.The given waterways are refered to inland traffic on rivers and canals. The number of harbours additionally includes the ones on the 5,152 km long coastline.
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Papua New Guinea | |||
total | per 1 mio inhabitants | per km2 | |
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Roadways | 9,300 km | 1,065.28 km | 20.20 m |
Railroads | 0 km | 0.00 km | 0.00 m |
Waterways | 11,000 km | 1,253.40 km | 23.77 m |
Commercial harbors | 171 | 19.48 | 0.000 |
Airports | 561 | 63.92 | 1.212 |
Oceania | |||
total | per 1 mio inhabitants | per km2 | |
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Roadways | 30,900 km | 2,544.43 km | 55.93 m |
Railroads | 600 km | 49.16 km | 1.08 m |
Waterways | 11,200 km | 922.88 km | 20.29 m |
Commercial harbors | 5,095 | 419.53 | 0.009 |
Airports | 817 | 67.27 | 0.001 |