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Zambia vs. Tanzania

Transportation

ZambiaTanzania
Railwaystotal: 3,126 km (2014)

narrow gauge: 3,126 km 1.067-m gauge (2014)

note: includes 1,860 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA)
total: 4,567 km (2014)

narrow gauge: 1,860 km 1.067-m gauge (2014)

2707 km 1.000-m gauge
Roadwaystotal: 67,671 km (2018)

paved: 14,888 km (2018)

unpaved: 52,783 km (2018)
total: 87,581 km (2015)

paved: 10,025 km (2015)

unpaved: 77,556 km (2015)
Waterways2,250 km (includes Lake Tanganyika and the Zambezi and Luapula Rivers) (2010)(Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, and Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) are the principal avenues of commerce with neighboring countries; the rivers are not navigable) (2011)
Pipelines771 km oil (2013)311 km gas, 891 km oil, 8 km refined products (2013)
Ports and terminalsriver port(s): Mpulungu (Zambezi)major seaport(s): Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar
Merchant marinetotal: 1

by type: other 1 (2019)
total: 315

by type: bulk carrier 3, container ship 5, general cargo 156, oil tanker 45, other 106 (2020)
Airportstotal: 88 (2013)total: 166 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 8 (2013)

over 3,047 m: 1 (2013)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2013)
total: 10 (2019)

over 3,047 m: 2

2,438 to 3,047 m: 2

1,524 to 2,437 m: 4

914 to 1,523 m: 2
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 80 (2013)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 53 (2013)

under 914 m: 21 (2013)
total: 156 (2013)

over 3,047 m: 1 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 24 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 98 (2013)

under 914 m: 33 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 3 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 6

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 8,904 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 75.08 million mt-km (2018)
number of registered air carriers: 11 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 91

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 1,481,557 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 390,000 mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefix9J5H

Source: CIA Factbook