This article is about transport in Belarus.

Railways

Rail transport in Belarus Rail transport in Belarus is owned by the national rail company BŽD / BČ ( be: Bielaruskaja Čyhunka / ru: Belorusskaja Železnaja Doroga). The railway network consists of 5,512 km, its gauge is (Russian broad gauge) and 874 km are e ...

is operated by Belarusskaya ChyhunkaBŽD / Белорусская Железная Дорога
official site
''total:''
''country comparison to the world:'' 32
''broad gauge:'' of gauge ( electrified) (2006) *City with

underground Underground most commonly refers to: * Subterranea (geography), the regions beneath the surface of the Earth Underground may also refer to: Places * The Underground (Boston), a music club in the Allston neighborhood of Boston * The Underground (S ...

railway system: Minsk, see Minsk Metro *For tramway systems: see List of town tramway systems in Belarus

Highways

The owners of highways may be the Republic of Belarus, its

political subdivisions Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...

, 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 of roads and of departmental thousand (agriculture, industry, forestry, etc.), including 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 . ''total:''
''paved:'' (2003)

Waterways

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

Pipelines

gas ; oil ; refined products (2008)

Ports and harbors

* Mazyr - on the river Pripyat

Airports

65 (2008):
''country comparison to the world:'' 76 * Minsk International Airport *

Minsk-1 Minsk-1 Airport was a Belarusian airport located within the city limits of Minsk, just a few kilometres south from the centre. History Minsk-1 was built in 1933. It was the major airport of Minsk until the new airport ''Minsk-2'', now named ...

Gomel Airport Gomel Airport is an airport located 3 km north-east from Gomel, the second-largest city in Belarus. It was opened in 1968. History Since the mid-1950s, regular flights to Minsk and Kiev from the old Gomel airport to remote regional cente ...

Airports - with paved runways

''total:'' 35
''over :'' 2
'':'' 22
'':'' 4
'':'' 1
''under :'' 6 (2008)

Airports - with unpaved runways

''total:'' 30
'':'' 1
'':'' 1
'':'' 2
''under :'' 26 (2008)

Heliports

1 (2007)Heliports is where helicopter land.

National air-carrier

Belavia Belavia, formally Belavia Belarusian Airlines ( be, ААТ «Авіякампанія «Белавія»; russian: ОАО «Авиакомпания «Белавиа»), is the flag carrier and national airline of Belarus, headquartered in Minsk ...

References

External links

Automobiles, Trains And Buses - Getting Around Belarus
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