Transportation in Kazakhstan

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1 Railways
- 1.1 Railway links with adjacent countries
- 1.2 Maps
2 Highways
3 Waterways
4 Pipelines
5 Ports and harbors
- 5.1 Caspian Sea
- 5.2 Other
6 Airports
- 6.1 Airports - with paved runways
- 6.2 Airports - with unpaved runways
7 See also
8 External link

[edit] Railways

total: 14,400 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial lines

broad gauge: 14,400 km 1.520-m gauge (3,299 km electrified) (1997) Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) is the national railway company.

Because rail routes were designed ignoring intersoviet borders, there are anamolies such as the route from Ural'sk to Aktobe briefly passes through Russian territory.

City with metro system under construction: Almaty.

[edit] Railway links with adjacent countries

Russia - yes - same gauge
China - yes - break of gauge 1524mm/1435mm
Kyrgyzstan - yes - same gauge
Uzbekistan - yes - same gauge
Turkmenistan - yes - same gauge

Caspian Sea - railhead 1524mm

[edit] Maps

[edit] Highways

total: 119,390 km
paved: 103,272 km
unpaved: 16,118 km (1998 est.)

[edit] Waterways

3,900 km on the Syrdariya (Syr Darya) and Ertis (Irtysh)

[edit] Pipelines

crude oil 2,850 km; refined products 1,500 km; natural gas 3,480 km (1992)

[edit] Ports and harbors

[edit] Caspian Sea

Aqtau (Shevchenko) - railhead 1524mm
Atyrau (Gur'yev) - railhead 1524mm

[edit] Other

Oskemen (Ust-Kamenogorsk)
Pavlodar
Semey (Semipalatinsk)

[edit] Airports

10 (1997 est.)

[edit] Airports - with paved runways

total: 9
over 3,047 m: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 (1997 est.)

[edit] Airports - with unpaved runways

total: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (1997 est.)

[edit] See also

Kazakhstan

[edit] External link

Kazakhstan, South Korea to set up bus-assembling JV

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