South Sudan vs. Sudan

Transportation

	South Sudan	Sudan
Railways	total: 248 km (2018) note: a narrow gauge, single-track railroad between Babonosa (Sudan) and Wau, the only existing rail system, was repaired in 2010 with $250 million in UN funds, but is not currently operational	total: 7,251 km (2014) narrow gauge: 5,851 km 1.067-m gauge (2014) 1,400 km 0.600-m gauge for cotton plantations
Roadways	total: 90,200 km (2019) paved: 300 km (2019) unpaved: 89,900 km (2019) note: most of the road network is unpaved and much of it is in disrepair	total: 31,000 km (2019) paved: 8,000 km (2019) unpaved: 23,000 km (2019) urban: 1,000 km (2019)
Waterways	see entry for Sudan	4,068 km (1,723 km open year-round on White and Blue Nile Rivers) (2011)
Airports	total: 89 (2020)	total: 67 (2020)
Airports - with paved runways	total: 4 (2020) over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1	total: 17 (2020) over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 11 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 1
Airports - with unpaved runways	total: 84 (2020) 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 12 914 to 1,523 m: 38 under 914 m: 33	total: 50 (2020) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 17 914 to 1,523 m: 24 under 914 m: 9
Heliports	3 (2020)	7 (2020)
National air transport system	number of registered air carriers: 2 (2020) inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 2 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 0 mt-km	number of registered air carriers: 9 (2020) inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 42 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 269,958 (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefix	Z8	ST

Source: CIA Factbook