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Transportation:
Railways: 
total: 32,175 km
standard gauge: 32,008 km 1.435-m gauge (14,320 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 167 km 1.000-m gauge (2003) 

Highways: 
total: 894,000 km 
paved: 894,000 km (including 11,500 km of expressways) 
unpaved: 0 km (2000) 

Waterways: 8,500 km (1,686 km accessible to craft of 3,000 metric tons) (2000) 

Pipelines: gas 14,232 km; oil 3,024 km; refined products 4,889 km (2004) 

Ports and harbors: Bordeaux, Boulogne, Cherbourg, Dijon, Dunkerque, La Pallice, Le Havre, Lyon, Marseille, Mulhouse, Nantes, Paris, Rouen, Saint Nazaire, Saint Malo, Strasbourg (2003) 

Merchant marine: 
total: 32 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 703,639 GRT/889,705 DWT 
by type: cargo 3, chemical tanker 6, container 2, liquefied gas 4, passenger 1, petroleum tanker 10, roll on/roll off 2, short-sea/passenger 4 
registered in other countries: 118 (2004 est.) 
foreign-owned: Germany 1, Monaco 2, New Caledonia 1, Sweden 5 

Airports: 477 (2003 est.) 

Airports - with paved runways: 
total: 283
over 3,047 m: 13
2,438 to 3,047 m: 28
1,524 to 2,437 m: 95
914 to 1,523 m: 82
under 914 m: 65 (2004 est.) 

Airports - with unpaved runways: 
total: 195
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 72
under 914 m: 120 (2004 est.) 

Heliports: 3 (2003 est.)

This information comes from the CIA World Factbook.


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