Railways (km)

Definition Field Listing Rank Order

Others A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Others

World: total: 657,382 km (2013)
European Union: total: 461,096 km (2013)
Taiwan: total: 1,580 km
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 (2009)

A

Albania: total: 339 km
standard gauge: 339 km 1.435-m gauge (2009)
Algeria: total: 3,973 km
standard gauge: 2,888 km 1.435-m gauge (283 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,085 km 1.055-m gauge (2008)
Angola: total: 2,764 km
narrow gauge: 2,641 km 1.067-m gauge; 123 km 0.600-m gauge (2008)
Argentina: total: 36,966 km
broad gauge: 26,475 km 1.676-m gauge (94 km electrified)
standard gauge: 2,780 km 1.435-m gauge (42 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 7,711 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Armenia: total: 869 km
broad gauge: 869 km 1.520-m gauge (818 km electrified)
note: some lines are out of service (2009)
Australia: total: 38,445 km
broad gauge: 3,355 km 1.600-m gauge
standard gauge: 21,674 km 1.435-m gauge (650 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 9,539 km 1.067-m gauge (2,067 km electrified); 3,877 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Austria: total: 6,399 km
standard gauge: 5,927 km 1.435-m gauge (3,853 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 384 km 1.000-m gauge (15 km electrified); 88 km 0.760-m gauge (10 km electrified) (2008)
Azerbaijan: total: 2,918 km
broad gauge: 2,918 km 1.520-m gauge (1,278 km electrified) (2009)

B

Bangladesh: total: 2,622 km
broad gauge: 946 km 1.676-m gauge
narrow gauge: 1,676 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Belarus: total: 5,537 km
broad gauge: 5,512 km 1.520-m gauge (874 km electrified)
standard gauge: 25 km 1.435-m gauge (2008)
Belgium: total: 3,233 km
standard gauge: 3,233 km 1.435-m gauge (2,950 km electrified) (2008)
Benin: total: 438 km
narrow gauge: 438 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Bolivia: total: 3,652 km
narrow gauge: 3,652 km 1.000-m gauge (2010)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: total: 601 km
standard gauge: 601 km 1.435-m gauge (392 km electrified) (2009)
Botswana: total: 888 km
narrow gauge: 888 km 1.067-m gauge (2008)
Brazil: total: 28,538 km
broad gauge: 5,627 km 1.600-m gauge (467 km electrified)
standard gauge: 194 km 1.440-m gauge
narrow gauge: 22,717 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Bulgaria: total: 4,152 km
standard gauge: 4,072 km 1.435-m gauge (2,863 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 80 km 0.760-m gauge (2011)
Burkina Faso: total: 622 km
narrow gauge: 622 km 1.000-m gauge
note: another 660 km of this railway extends into Cote d'Ivoire (2008)
Burma: total: 5,031 km
narrow gauge: 5,031 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)

C

Cambodia: total: 690 km
narrow gauge: 690 km 1.000-m gauge
note: under restoration (2010)
Cameroon: total: 1,245 km
narrow gauge: 1,245 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Canada: total: 46,552 km
standard gauge: 46,552 km 1.435-m gauge (2008)
Chile: total: 7,082 km
broad gauge: 3,435 km 1.676-m gauge (850 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 3,647 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
China: total: 86,000 km
standard gauge: 86,000 km 1.435-m gauge (36,000 km electrified) (2008)
Christmas Island: total: 18 km
standard gauge: 18 km 1.435-m (not in operation) (2010)
Colombia: total: 874 km
standard gauge: 150 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 498 km 0.950-m gauge; 226 km 0.914-m gauge (2008)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the: total: 4,007 km
narrow gauge: 3,882 km 1.067-m gauge (858 km electrified); 125 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Congo, Republic of the: total: 886 km
narrow gauge: 886 km 1.067-m gauge (2008)
Costa Rica: total: 278 km
narrow gauge: 278 km 1.067-m gauge
note: none of the railway network is in use (2008)
Cote d'Ivoire: total: 660 km
narrow gauge: 660 km 1.000-m gauge
note: an additional 622 km of this railroad extends into Burkina Faso (2008)
Croatia: total: 2,722 km
standard gauge: 2,722 km 1.435-m gauge (984 km electrified) (2011)
Cuba: total: 8,203 km
standard gauge: 8,134 km 1.435-m gauge (124 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 69 km 1.000-m gauge
note: 48 km of standard gauge track is not for public use (2011)
Czech Republic: total: 9,469 km
standard gauge: 9,449 km 1.435-m gauge (3,165 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 20 km 0.750-m gauge (2008)

D

Denmark: total: 2,667 km
standard gauge: 2,667 km 1.435-m gauge (640 km electrified) (2008)
Djibouti: total: 100 km (Djibouti segment of the 781 km Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway)
narrow gauge: 100 km 1.000-m gauge
note: railway is under joint control of Djibouti and Ethiopia but is largely inoperable (2008)
Dominican Republic: total: 142 km
standard gauge: 142 km 1.435-m gauge (2008)

E

Ecuador: total: 965 km
narrow gauge: 965 km 1.067-m gauge (2008)
Egypt: total: 5,083 km
standard gauge: 5,083 km 1.435-m gauge (62 km electrified) (2009)
El Salvador: total: 283 km
narrow gauge: 283 km 0.600-m gauge
note: railways have been inoperable since 2005 because of disuse and high costs that led to a lack of maintenance (2008)
Eritrea: total: 306 km
narrow gauge: 306 km 0.950-m gauge (2008)
Estonia: total: 1,196 km
broad gauge: 1,196 km 1.520-m and 1.524-m gauge (133 km electrified) (2011)
Ethiopia: total: 681 km (Ethiopian segment of the 781 km Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad)
narrow gauge: 681 km 1.000-m gauge
note: railway is under joint control of Djibouti and Ethiopia but is largely inoperable (2008)

F

Fiji: total: 597 km
narrow gauge: 597 km 0.600-m gauge
note: belongs to the government-owned Fiji Sugar Corporation; used to haul sugarcane during the harvest season, which runs from May to December (2008)
Finland: total: 5,944 km
broad gauge: 5,944 km 1.524-m gauge (3,067 km electrified) (2013)
France: total: 29,640 km
standard gauge: 29,473 km 1.435-m gauge (15,361 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 167 km 1.000-m gauge (63 km electrified) (2008)

G

Gabon: total: 649 km
standard gauge: 649 km 1.435-m gauge (2008)
Georgia: total: 1,612 km
broad gauge: 1,575 km 1.520-m gauge (1,575 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 37 km 0.912-m gauge (37 km electrified) (2008)
Germany: total: 41,981 km
standard gauge: 41,722 km 1.435-m gauge (20,053 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 220 km 1.000-m gauge (75 km electrified); 39 km 0.750-m gauge (24 km electrified) (2008)
Ghana: total: 947 km
narrow gauge: 947 km 1.067-m gauge (2008)
Greece: total: 2,548 km
standard gauge: 1,565 km 1.435-m gauge (764 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 961 km 1.000-m gauge; 22 km 0.750-m gauge (2008)
Guatemala: total: 332 km
narrow gauge: 332 km 0.914-m gauge (2008)
Guinea: total: 1,185 km
standard gauge: 238 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 947 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)

H

Honduras: total: 44 km
narrow gauge: 44 km 1.067-m gauge
note: (4 km are in use) (2012)
Hungary: total: 8,057 km
broad gauge: 36 km 1.524-m gauge
standard gauge: 7,802 km 1.435-m gauge (2,911 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 219 km 0.760-m gauge (2009)

I

India: total: 63,974 km
broad gauge: 54,257 km 1.676-m gauge (18,927 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 7,180 km 1.000-m gauge; 2,537 km 0.762-m gauge and 0.610-m gauge (2009)
Indonesia: total: 5,042 km
narrow gauge: 5,042 km 1.067-m gauge (565 km electrified) (2008)
Iran: total: 8,442 km
broad gauge: 94 km 1.676-m gauge
standard gauge: 8,348 km 1.435-m gauge (148 km electrified) (2008)
Iraq: total: 2,370 km
standard gauge: 2,370 km 1.435-m gauge (2012)
Ireland: total: 3,237 km
broad gauge: 1,872 km 1.600-m gauge (37 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,365 km 0.914-m gauge (operated by the Irish Peat Board to transport peat to power stations and briquetting plants) (2008)
Isle of Man: total: 63 km
narrow gauge: 6 km 1.076-m gauge (6 km electrified); 57 km 0.914-m gauge (29 km electrified)
note: primarily summer tourist attractions (2008)
Israel: total: 975 km
standard gauge: 975 km 1.435-m gauge (2008)
Italy: total: 20,255 km
standard gauge: 18,611 km 1.435-m gauge (12,662 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 123 km 1.000-m gauge (123 km electrified); 1,290 km 0.950-m gauge (151 km electrified); 231 km 0.850-m gauge (2008)

J

Japan: total: 27,182 km
standard gauge: 4,251 km 1.435-m gauge (4,251 km electrified)
dual gauge: 486 km 1.435-1.067-m gauge (486 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 96 km 1.372-m gauge (96 km electrified); 22,301 km 1.067-m gauge (15,222 km electrified); 48 km 0.762-m gauge (48 km electrified) (2009)
Jordan: total: 507 km
narrow gauge: 507 km 1.050-m gauge (2008)

K

Kazakhstan: total: 15,333 km
broad gauge: 15,333 km 1.520-m gauge (4,000 km electrified) (2012)
Kenya: total: 2,066 km
narrow gauge: 2,066 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Korea, North: total: 5,242 km
standard gauge: 5,242 km 1.435-m gauge (3,500 km electrified) (2009)
Korea, South: total: 3,381 km
standard gauge: 3,381 km 1.435-m gauge (1,843 km electrified) (2008)
Kosovo: total: 430 km
standard gauge: 430 km 1.435-m gauge (2007)
Kyrgyzstan: total: 470 km
broad gauge: 470 km 1.520-m gauge (2008)

L

Latvia: total: 2,239 km
broad gauge: 2,206 km 1.520-m gauge
narrow gauge: 33 km 0.750-m gauge (2008)
Lebanon: total: 401 km
standard gauge: 319 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 82 km 1.050-m gauge
note: rail system unusable because of the damage done during fighting in the 1980s and in 2006 (2008)
Liberia: total: 429 km
standard gauge: 345 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 84 km 1.067-m gauge
note: most sections of the railways were inoperable because of damage suffered during the civil wars from 1980 to 2003, but many are being rebuilt (2008)
Liechtenstein: total: 9 km
standard gauge: 9 km 1.435-m gauge (electrified)
note: belongs to the Austrian Railway System connecting Austria and Switzerland (2008)
Lithuania: total: 1,767 km
broad gauge: 1,745 km 1.524-m gauge (122 km electrified)
standard gauge: 22 km 1.435-m gauge (2011)
Luxembourg: total: 275 km
standard gauge: 275 km 1.435-m gauge (243 km electrified) (2008)

M

Macedonia: total: 699 km
standard gauge: 699 km 1.435-m gauge (234 km electrified) (2012)
Madagascar: total: 854 km
narrow gauge: 854 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Malawi: total: 797 km
narrow gauge: 797 km 1.067-m gauge (2008)
Malaysia: total: 1,849 km
standard gauge: 57 km 1.435-m gauge (57 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,792 km 1.000-m gauge (150 km electrified) (2010)
Mali: total: 593 km
narrow gauge: 593 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Mauritania: 728 km
standard gauge: 728 km 1.435-m gauge (2008)
Mexico: total: 17,166 km
standard gauge: 17,166 km 1.435-m gauge (22 km electrified) (2008)
Moldova: total: 1,190 km
broad gauge: 1,176 km 1.520-m gauge
standard gauge: 14 km 1.435-m gauge (2008)
Mongolia: total: 1,908 km
broad gauge: 1,908 km 1.520-m gauge
note: the railway is 50 percent owned by the Russian State Railway (2010)
Montenegro: total: 250 km
standard gauge: 250 km 1.435-m gauge (169 km electrified) (2010)
Morocco: total: 2,067 km
standard gauge: 2,067 km 1.435-m gauge (1,022 km electrified) (2008)
Mozambique: total: 4,787 km
narrow gauge: 4,787 km 1.067-m gauge (2008)

N

Namibia: total: 2,626 km
narrow gauge: 2,626 km 1.067-m gauge (2008)
Nepal: total: 59 km
narrow gauge: 59 km 0.762-m gauge (2008)
Netherlands: total: 3,013 km
standard gauge: 3,013 km 1.435-m gauge (2,195 km electrified) (2012)
New Zealand: total: 4,128 km
narrow gauge: 4,128 km 1.067-m gauge (506 km electrified) (2008)
Nigeria: total: 3,505 km
narrow gauge: 3,505 km 1.067-m gauge (2008)
Norway: total: 4,237 km
standard gauge: 4,237 km 1.435-m gauge (2,784 km electrified) (2012)

O

P

Pakistan: total: 7,791 km
broad gauge: 7,479 km 1.676-m gauge (293 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 312 km 1.000-m gauge (2007)
Panama: total: 76 km
standard gauge: 76 km 1.435-m gauge (2008)
Paraguay: total: 36 km
standard gauge: 36 km 1.435-m gauge (2008)
Peru: total: 1,907 km
standard gauge: 1,772 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 135 km 0.914-m gauge (2012)
Philippines: total: 995 km
narrow gauge: 995 km 1.067-m gauge (484 km are in operation) (2010)
Poland: total: 19,428 km
broad gauge: 399 km 1.524-m gauge
standard gauge: 19,029 km 1.435-m gauge (11,805 km electrified) (2007)
Portugal: total: 3,319 km
broad gauge: 2,700 km 1.668-m gauge (1,436 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 192 km 1.000-m gauge; 427 km 0.760-m gauge (2008)

Q

R

Romania: total: 10,777 km
broad gauge: 134 km 1.524-m gauge
standard gauge: 10,639 km 1.435-m gauge (4,020 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 4 km 1.000-m gauge (2012)
Russia: total: 87,157 km
broad gauge: 86,200 km 1.520-m gauge (40,300 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 957 km 1.067-m gauge (on Sakhalin Island)
note: an additional 30,000 km of non-common carrier lines serve industries (2006)

S

Saint Kitts and Nevis: total: 50 km
narrow gauge: 50 km 0.762-m gauge on Saint Kitts for tourists (2008)
Saudi Arabia: total: 1,378 km
standard gauge: 1,378 km 1.435-m gauge (with branch lines and sidings) (2008)
Senegal: total: 906 km
narrow gauge: 906 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Serbia: total: 3,809 km
standard gauge: 3,809 km 1.435-m gauge (1,279 km electrified) (2010)
Slovakia: total: 3,622 km
broad gauge: 99 km 1.520-m gauge
standard gauge: 3,473 km 1.435-m gauge (1,615 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 50 km 1.000-m or 0.750-m gauge (2008)
Slovenia: total: 1,228 km
standard gauge: 1,228 km 1.435-m gauge (503 km electrified) (2007)
South Africa: total: 20,192 km
narrow gauge: 19,756 km 1.065-m gauge (8,271 km electrified); 122 km 0.750-m gauge; 314 km 0.610-m gauge (2008)
South Sudan: 248 km; note - a narrow guage, single-track railroad between Babonosa (Sudan) and Wau, the only existing rail system, was repaired in 2010 with $250 million in United Nations funds (2014)
Spain: total: 15,293 km
broad gauge: 11,919 km 1.668-m gauge (6,950 km electrified)
standard gauge: 1,392 km 1.435-m gauge (1,054 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,954 km 1.000-m gauge (815 km electrified); 28 km 0.914-m gauge (2008)
Sri Lanka: total: 1,449 km
broad gauge: 1,449 km 1.676-m gauge (2007)
Sudan: total: 5,978 km
narrow gauge: 4,578 km 1.067-m gauge; 1,400 km 0.600-m gauge for cotton plantations (2008)
Swaziland: total: 301 km
narrow gauge: 301 km 1.067-m gauge (2008)
Sweden: total: 11,633 km
standard gauge: 11,568 km 1.435-m gauge (7,567 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 65 km 1.000-m gauge (65 km electrified) (2008)
Switzerland: total: 4,876 km
standard gauge: 3,846 km 1.435-m gauge (3,591 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,020 km 1.000-m gauge (1,013 km electrified); 10 km 0.800-m gauge (10 km electrified) (2008)
Syria: total: 2,052 km
standard gauge: 1,801 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 251 km 1.050-m gauge (2008)

T

Tajikistan: total: 680 km
broad gauge: 680 km 1.520-m gauge (2008)
Tanzania: total: 3,689 km
narrow gauge: 969 km 1.067-m gauge; 2,720 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Thailand: total: 4,071 km
standard gauge: 29 km 1.435-m gauge (29 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 4,042 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Togo: total: 568 km
narrow gauge: 568 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Tunisia: total: 2,165 km (1,991 in use)
standard gauge: 471 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 1,694 km 1.000-m gauge (65 km electrified) (2011)
Turkey: total: 12,008 km
standard gauge: 12,008 km 1.435-m gauge (3,216 km electrified) (2012)
Turkmenistan: total: 2,980 km
broad gauge: 2,980 km 1.520-m gauge (2008)

U

Uganda: total: 1,244 km
narrow gauge: 1,244 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
Ukraine: total: 21,619 km
broad gauge: 21,619 km 1.524-m gauge (10,242 km electrified) (2012)
United Kingdom: total: 16,454 km
broad gauge: 303 km 1.600-m gauge (in Northern Ireland)
standard gauge: 16,151 km 1.435-m gauge (5,248 km electrified) (2008)
United States: total: 224,792 km
standard gauge: 224,792 km 1.435-m gauge (2007)
Uruguay: total: 1,641 km
standard gauge: 1,641 km 1.435-m gauge (1,200 km operational) (2010)
Uzbekistan: total: 4,230 km
broad gauge: 4,200 km 1.520-m gauge (930 km electrified) (2012)

V

Venezuela: total: 806 km
standard gauge: 806 km 1.435-m gauge (41 km electrified) (2008)
Vietnam: total: 2,632 km
standard gauge: 527 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 2,105 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)

W

X

Y

Z

Zambia: total: 2,922 km
narrow gauge: 2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 1,860 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) (2013)
Zimbabwe: total: 3,427 km
narrow gauge: 3,427 km 1.067-m gauge (313 km electrified) (2008)