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Burma vs. Laos

Transportation

BurmaLaos
Roadwaystotal: 157,000 km (2013)

paved: 34,700 km (2013)

unpaved: 122,300 km (2013)
total: 39,586 km (2009)

paved: 5,415 km (2009)

unpaved: 34,171 km (2009)
Waterways12,800 km (2011)4,600 km (primarily on the Mekong River and its tributaries; 2,900 additional km are intermittently navigable by craft drawing less than 0.5 m) (2012)
Pipelines3739 km gas, 1321 km oil (2017)540 km refined products (2013)
Merchant marinetotal: 93

by type: bulk carrier 2, general cargo 37, oil tanker 5, other 49 (2020)
total: 1

by type: general cargo 1 (2020)
Airportstotal: 64 (2013)total: 41 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 36 (2017)

over 3,047 m: 12 (2017)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 11 (2017)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 12 (2017)

under 914 m: 1 (2017)
total: 8 (2017)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 (2017)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 (2017)

914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 28 (2013)

over 3,047 m: 1 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 10 (2013)

under 914 m: 13 (2013)
total: 33 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 9 (2013)

under 914 m: 22 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 8 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 42

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 3,407,788 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 4.74 million mt-km (2018)
number of registered air carriers: 1 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 12

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 1,251,961 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 1.53 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixXYRDPL

Source: CIA Factbook