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Railways | total: 5,690 km (includes 19 km in neighboring countries) (2015) standard gauge: 3,836 km 1.435-m gauge (3,634 km electrified) (2015) narrow gauge: 1,630 km 1.200-m gauge (2 km electrified) (includes 19 km in neighboring countries) (2015) 1188 km 1.000-m gauge (1,167.3 km electrified) 36 km 0.800-m gauge (36.4 km electrified) |
Roadways | total: 71,557 km (2017) paved: 71,557 km (includes 1,458 of expressways) (2017) |
Waterways | 1,292 km (there are 1,227 km of waterways on lakes and rivers for public transport and 65 km on the Rhine River between Basel-Rheinfelden and Schaffhausen-Bodensee for commercial goods transport) (2010) |
Pipelines | 1,800 km gas, 94 km oil (of which 60 are inactive), 17 km refined products (2017) |
Ports and terminals | river port(s): Basel (Rhine) |
Merchant marine | total: 28 by type: bulk carrier 21, general cargo 3, oil tanker 1, other 3 (includes Liechtenstein) (2020) |
Airports | total: 63 (2013) |
Airports - with paved runways | total: 40 (2013) over 3,047 m: 3 (2013) 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 (2013) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 12 (2013) 914 to 1,523 m: 6 (2013) under 914 m: 17 (2013) |
Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 23 (2013) under 914 m: 23 (2013) |
Heliports | 2 (2013) |
National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 6 (2020) inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 179 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 28,857,994 (2018) annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 1,841,310,000 mt-km (2018) |
Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | HB |
Source: CIA World Factbook
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