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Rank Order - Railways

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Rank	Country	Railways (km)	Date of Information
1	World	1,122,650	NA
2	United States	194,731	2000
3	Russia	87,157	2002
4	China	71,600	2002
5	India	63,518	2002
6	Canada	49,422	2002
7	Germany	45,514	2002
8	Australia	41,588	2002
9	Argentina	34,463	2002
10	France	32,682	2002
11	Brazil	31,543	2002
12	Poland	23,420	2002
13	Japan	23,168	2002
14	Ukraine	22,473	2002
15	South Africa	22,298	2002
16	Mexico	19,510	2002
17	Italy	19,493	2002
18	United Kingdom	16,893	2002
19	Spain	14,189	2002
20	Kazakhstan	13,601	2002
21	Sweden	11,481	2002
22	Romania	11,385	2002
23	Czech Republic	9,462	2002
24	Turkey	8,607	2002
25	Pakistan	8,163	2002
26	Hungary	7,875	2002
27	Iran	7,201	2002
28	Chile	6,585	2002
29	Indonesia	6,458	2002
30	Austria	6,024	2002
31	Sudan	5,978	2002
32	Finland	5,850	2002
33	Belarus	5,523	2002
34	Korea, North	5,214	2002
35	Egypt	5,105	2002
36	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	4,772	2002
37	Switzerland	4,511	2002
38	Bulgaria	4,294	2002
39	Norway	4,178	2002
40	Thailand	4,071	2002
41	Serbia and Montenegro	4,059	2002
42	Algeria	3,973	2002
43	Burma	3,955	2002
44	Uzbekistan	3,950	2002
45	New Zealand	3,898	2002
46	Tanzania	3,690	2002
47	Slovakia	3,668	2002
48	Nigeria	3,557	2002
49	Bolivia	3,519	2002
50	Belgium	3,471	2002
51	Cuba	3,442	2002
52	Ireland	3,312	2002
53	Colombia	3,304	2002
54	Denmark	3,164	2002
55	Vietnam	3,142	2002
56	Korea, South	3,125	2002
57	Mozambique	3,123	2002
58	Zimbabwe	3,077	2002
59	Portugal	2,850	2002
60	Netherlands	2,808	2002
61	Kenya	2,778	2002
62	Angola	2,761	2002
63	Syria	2,743	2002
64	Bangladesh	2,706	2002
65	Greece	2,571	2002
66	Turkmenistan	2,440	2002
67	Malaysia	2,418	2002
68	Namibia	2,382	2002
69	Latvia	2,347	2002
70	Croatia	2,296	2002
71	Zambia	2,173	2002
72	Tunisia	2,152	2002
73	Azerbaijan	2,122	2002
74	Uruguay	2,073	2002
75	Lithuania	1,998	2002
76	Iraq	1,963	2003
77	Morocco	1,907	2002
78	Peru	1,829	2002
79	Georgia	1,612	2002
80	Sri Lanka	1,508	2002
81	Dominican Republic	1,503	2002
82	Saudi Arabia	1,392	2002
83	Moldova	1,300	2002
84	Uganda	1,241	2002
85	Slovenia	1,201	2002
86	Guinea	1,115	2002
87	Taiwan	1,108	2002
88	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,021	2002
89	Cameroon	1,008	2002
90	Estonia	968	2002
91	Ecuador	966	2002
92	Ghana	953	2002
93	Costa Rica	950	2002
94	Senegal	906	2002
95	Philippines	897	2002
96	Congo, Republic of the	894	2002
97	Botswana	888	2002
98	Guatemala	886	2002
99	Armenia	852	2002
100	Gabon	814	2002
101	Malawi	797	2002
102	Madagascar	732	2002
103	Mali	729	2002
104	Honduras	699	2002
105	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of	699	2002
106	Venezuela	682	2002
107	Ethiopia	681	2002
108	Cote d'Ivoire	660	2002
109	Israel	640	2002
110	Burkina Faso	622	2002
111	Cambodia	602	2002
112	Fiji	597	2002
113	Benin	578	2002
114	Togo	525	2002
115	Jordan	505	2002
116	Liberia	490	2002
117	Tajikistan	482	2002
118	Albania	447	2002
119	Paraguay	441	2002
120	Kyrgyzstan	420	2002
121	Lebanon	401	2002
122	Panama	355	2002
123	Eritrea	306	2002
124	Swaziland	301	2002
125	El Salvador	283	2002
126	Luxembourg	274	2002
127	Jamaica	272	2002
128	Guyana	187	2001 est.
129	Suriname	166	2001
130	Djibouti	100	2002
131	Puerto Rico	96	2002
132	Sierra Leone	84	2001
133	Antigua and Barbuda	77	2001 est.
134	Man, Isle of	60	2002
135	Nepal	59	2002
136	Saint Kitts and Nevis	50	2002
137	Haiti	40	2001 est.
138	Singapore	39	NA
139	Hong Kong	34	2001
140	Afghanistan	25	2001
141	Liechtenstein	19	2002
142	Brunei	13	2001 est.
143	Nicaragua	6	2002
144	Nauru	5	2001
145	Lesotho	3	1995
146	Monaco	2	2002
147	Holy See (Vatican City)	1	2001 est.
148	Equatorial Guinea	0	NA

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