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Nicaragua vs. Honduras

Transportation

NicaraguaHonduras
Roadwaystotal: 23,897 km (2014)

paved: 3,346 km (2014)

unpaved: 20,551 km (2014)
total: 14,742 km (2012)

paved: 3,367 km (2012)

unpaved: 11,375 km (1,543 km summer only) (2012)

note: an additional 8,951 km of non-official roads used by the coffee industry
Waterways2,220 km (navigable waterways as well as the use of the large Lake Managua and Lake Nicaragua; rivers serve only the sparsely populated eastern part of the country) (2011)465 km (most navigable only by small craft) (2012)
Ports and terminalsmajor seaport(s): Bluefields, Corintomajor seaport(s): La Ceiba, Puerto Cortes, San Lorenzo, Tela
Merchant marinetotal: 5

by type: general cargo 1, oil tanker 1, other 3 (2020)
total: 514

by type: general cargo 246, oil tanker 83, other 185 (2020)
Airportstotal: 147 (2013)total: 103 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 12 (2017)

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

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

914 to 1,523 m: 3 (2017)

under 914 m: 4 (2017)
total: 13 (2017)

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

1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 (2017)

914 to 1,523 m: 4 (2017)

under 914 m: 3 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 135 (2013)

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

914 to 1,523 m: 15 (2013)

under 914 m: 119 (2013)
total: 90 (2013)

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

914 to 1,523 m: 16 (2013)

under 914 m: 73 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 1 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 7
number of registered air carriers: 4 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 26

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 251,149 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 450,000 mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixYNHR

Source: CIA Factbook