Transport in Benin

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1 Railways
2 Highways
3 Waterways
4 Ports and harbors
5 Merchant marine
6 Airports
- 6.1 Airports - with paved runways
- 6.2 Airports - with unpaved runways
7 Reference
8 See also

[edit] Railways

total: 578 km (single track)
narrow gauge: 578 km 1.000-m gauge (1995 est.)

[edit] Railway links with adjacent countries

Niger - no railways to link to
Nigeria - no - potential Break-of-gauge 1000mm/1067mm
Togo - no - same 1000mm gauge
Burkina Faso - no - same 1000mm gauge

[edit] 2006

An Indian proposal has surfaced to link the railways in Benin with landlocked Niger and Burkina Faso.

Conference of African Railway Ministers 10 April-14 April 2006

[edit] Maps

See [1]
UN Map

[edit] Cities served by rail

Porto Novo - national capital

[edit] Cities proposed to be served by rail

Gaya, Niger

[edit] Highways

total: 6,787 km
paved: 1,357 km (including 10 km of expressways)
unpaved: 5,430 km (1997 est.)

[edit] Waterways

navigable along small sections, important only locally

[edit] Ports and harbors

Cotonou - railhead
Porto-Novo

[edit] Merchant marine

none (1999 est.)

[edit] Airports

5 (1999 est.)

[edit] Airports - with paved runways

total: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (1999 est.)

[edit] Airports - with unpaved runways

total: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 2 (1999 est.)

[edit] Reference

Much of the material in this article is adapted from the CIA World Factbook 2000.

[edit] See also

Benin

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Transport in Africa

Algeria · Angola · Benin · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Burundi · Cameroon · Cape Verde · Central African Republic · Chad · Comoros · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Republic of the Congo · Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) · Djibouti · Egypt · Equatorial Guinea · Eritrea · Ethiopia · Gabon · The Gambia · Ghana · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Kenya · Lesotho · Liberia · Libya · Madagascar · Malawi · Mali · Mauritania · Mauritius · Morocco · Mozambique · Namibia · Niger · Nigeria · Rwanda · São Tomé and Príncipe · Senegal · Seychelles · Sierra Leone · Somalia · South Africa · Sudan · Swaziland · Tanzania · Togo · Tunisia · Uganda · Zambia · Zimbabwe

Dependencies and other territories
Ceuta · Mayotte · Melilla · Puntland · Réunion · St. Helena · Somaliland · Western Sahara (SADR)

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