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Taiwan Transportation 2012

SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Taiwan Transportation 2012
SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on February 21,

Airports:
41 (2010)
country comparison to the world: 103
[see also: Airports country ranks ]

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 38
[see also: Airports - with paved runways - total country ranks ]
over 3,047 m: 8
2,438 to 3,047 m: 8
1,524 to 2,437 m: 11
914 to 1,523 m: 7
under 914 m: 4 (2010)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 3
[see also: Airports - with unpaved runways - total country ranks ]
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
under 914 m: 1 (2010)

Heliports:
4 (2010)
[see also: Heliports country ranks ]

Pipelines:
gas 412 km (2010)
[see also: Pipelines country ranks ]

Railways:
total: 1,580 km
country comparison to the world: 79
standard gauge: 345 km 1.435-m gauge (345 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,085 km 1.067-m gauge (685 km electrified); 150 km 0.762-m gauge
note: the 0.762 gauge track belongs to three entities, the Forestry Bureau, Taiwan Cement, and TaiPower (2010)
[see also: Railways country ranks ]

Roadways:
total: 41,475 km
country comparison to the world: 88
paved: 41,033 km (includes 720 km of expressways)
unpaved: 442 km (2009)
[see also: Roadways country ranks ]

Merchant marine:
total: 101
country comparison to the world: 50
by type: bulk carrier 28, cargo 19, chemical tanker 2, container 27, passenger/cargo 4, petroleum tanker 12, refrigerated cargo 7, roll on/roll off 2
foreign-owned: 2 (France 1, Vietnam 1)
registered in other countries: 574 (Cambodia 1, Honduras 2, Hong Kong 26, Indonesia 1, Italy 11, Kiribati 5, Liberia 88, Marshall Islands 2, Panama 337, Philippines 1, Sierra Leone 1, Singapore 79, Thailand 1, UK 11, unknown 8) (2010)
[see also: Merchant marine country ranks ]

Ports and terminals:
Chilung (Keelung), Kaohsiung, Hualian, Taichung


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Taiwan on this page is re-published from the 2012 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Taiwan Transportation 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Taiwan Transportation 2012 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order






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