Railroads: none

Highways:
total: 27,527 km
paved: bituminous 1,856 km
unpaved: gravel, crushed stone, improved earth 7,451 km; unimproved earth 18,220 km (often impassable during rainy season mid-May to mid-September)

Inland waterways: about 4,587 km, primarily Mekong and tributaries; 2,897 additional kilometers are sectionally navigable by craft drawing less than 0.5 m
Pipelines: petroleum products 136 km

Ports: none
Merchant marine: 1 cargo ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 2,370 GRT/3,000 DWT

Airports:
total: 53
usable: 41
with permanent-surface runways: 8
with runways over 3,659 m: 0
with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 1
with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 15

NOTE: The information regarding Laos on this page is re-published from the 1995 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Laos Transportation 1995 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Laos Transportation 1995 should be addressed to the CIA.