Transport in Belarus

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M1 highway at Orsha
Rail transport map of Belarus
Major gas (red) and oil (green) pipelines in Belarus
A Trolleybus in Brest
A ferry crossing the Daugava river in Vitebsk
The autobus station of Gomel

This article is about transport in Belarus.

Railways

Template:Main Rail transport in Belarus is operated by Belarusskaya Chyhunka<ref>BŽD / Белорусская Железная Дорога official site</ref>
total: Template:Convert
country comparison to the world: 32
broad gauge: Template:Convert of Template:RailGauge gauge (Template:Convert electrified) (2006)

Highways

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The owners of highways may be the Republic of Belarus, its political subdivisions, legal and natural persons, who own roads, as well as legal entities, which roads are fixed on the basis of economic or operational management.

Republican state administration in the field of roads and road activity is the Department Belavtodor under the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus.

In total, in Belarus there are more than Template:Convert of roads and Template:Convert of departmental thousand (agriculture, industry, forestry, etc.), including Template:Convert in cities and towns. The density of paved roads has been relatively low – 337 km per 1,000 km2 territory – for comparison, in European countries with well-developed road network, the figure is an average of Template:Convert.

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paved: Template:Convert (2003)

Waterways

Template:Convert (use limited by location on perimeter of country and by shallowness) (2003)
country comparison to the world: 37

Belarus' inland waterways are managed by Dneprobugvodput, Belvodput, and the Dnieper-Berezinsky Enterprise.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Pipelines

gas Template:Convert; oil Template:Convert; refined products Template:Convert (2008)

Ports and harbors

Airports

Template:Main 65 (2008):
country comparison to the world: 76

Airports - with paved runways

Template:Main total: 35
over Template:Convert: 2
Template:Convert: 22
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under Template:Convert: 6 (2008)

Airports - with unpaved runways

total: 30
Template:Convert: 1
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under Template:Convert: 26 (2008)

Heliports

1 (2007)Heliports is where helicopter land.

National air-carrier

See also

References

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