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Liberia: Facts & Stats

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TRANSPORTATION

Roads:

Highways

total: 10,600 km (there is major deterioration on all highways due to heavy rains and lack of maintenance)
paved: 657 km
unpaved: 9,943 km (1996 est.)

When construction and reconstruction of roads in Liberia is complete, Trans-West African Coastal Highway will cross the country, connecting it to Freetown (Sierra Leone), Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire), and eventually to 11 other nations of ECOWAS.

Ports and Harbors:

Buchanan - railhead of 1435mm gauge for civil war affected iron mine at Nimba
Greenville
Harper
Monrovia

Railroads:

total: 490 km (328 km single track)
note: in 1989, Liberia had three rail systems owned and operated by foreign steel and financial interests in conjunction with the Liberian Government; one of these, the Lamco Railroad, closed in 1989 after iron ore production ceased; the other two were shut down by the civil war; large sections of the rail lines have been dismantled; approximately 60 km of railroad track was exported for scrap (2001)
standard gauge: 345 km of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1/2 in) gauge
narrow gauge: 145 km of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge

There are two separate systems, with two lines from Monrovia and one line from Buchanan.

Railway links with adjacent countries

Sierra Leone - no - break-of-gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Guinea - no - break-of-gauge - 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1/2 in) & 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Côte d'Ivoire - no - break-of-gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3/8 in)

Aviation:

Airports - with paved runways

total: 2
over 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2002)

Airports - with unpaved runways

total: 45
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 7
under 914 m: 34 (2002)

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