Poland Communications - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Railroads: 27,176 km total; 23 969 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 397 km 1.524-meter broad gauge, 2,810 km narrow gauge, 8,843 km double track; 8,307 km electrified, government owned (1984'

Highways: 254,000 km total; 57,353 km concrete, asphalt, stone block, 97,561 km crushed stone, gravel, 99,086 km earth (1983)

Inland waterways: 4,017 km navigable rivers and canals (1984)

Pipelines: 4,500 km for natural gas; 1,986 km for crude oil (19841,322 km for refined products

Freight carried: rail—425.5 million metric tons, 123.5 billion metric ton/km (1985); highway—1,420 million metric tons. 36.5 billion metric ton/km (1985); inland waterway—15.45 million metric tons, 1.44 billion metric ton/km (1985), ocean—193 4 billion metric ton/km (1985)

Ports: 1 major (Gdansk, Gdynia, Szczecin, Swinoujscie), 12 minor (1979); principal inland waterway ports are Gliwice, Wroclaw, and Warsaw (1979)

NOTE: The information regarding Poland 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 Poland 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Poland 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.