Czechoslovakia Communications - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Railroads: 13,141 km total; 12,883 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 102 km 1.524-meter broad gauge, 156 km 0.750- and 0.760-meter narrow gauge; 2,866 km double track; 3,221 km electrified; government owned (1983)

Highways: 74,064 km total; 60,765 km concrete, asphalt, stone block; 13,299 km gravel, crushed stone (1983)

Inland waterways: 475 km (1983)

Pipelines: crude oil, 1,448 km; refined products, 1,500 km; natural gas, 7,500 km

Freight carried: rail—298.8 million metric tons (1984); highway 1,376 million metric tons, 20.3 billion metric ton/km (1983); waterway 11 40 million metric tons (1984), 3.9 billion metric ton/km (excluding international transit traffic) (1983)

Ports: no maritime ports; outlets are Gdynia, Gdansk, and Szczecin in Poland; Rijeka and Koper in Yugoslavia; Hamburg, FRG; Rostock, GDR; principal river ports are Prague, Dedin, Komarno, Bratislava (1979)

NOTE: The information regarding Czechoslovakia on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Czechoslovakia 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Czechoslovakia 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.