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 1.04 meter for each of the 8.9 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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	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Papua New Guinea
Roadways	9,300 km	1,044.93 km	20.20 m
Railroads	0 km	0.00 km	0.00 m
Waterways	11,000 km	1,229.46 km	23.77 m
Commercial harbors	175	19.56	0.000
Airports	561	62.70	1.212

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Oceania
Roadways	30,900 km	2,504.49 km	55.93 m
Railroads	600 km	48.39 km	1.08 m
Waterways	11,200 km	908.39 km	20.29 m
Commercial harbors	5,278	427.78	0.010
Airports	817	66.22	0.001

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