Iraq: Transportation#
| National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 4 inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 39 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 484,803 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 10,758,230 mt-km (2015) |
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| Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | YI (2016) |
| Airports | 102 (2013) |
| Airports - with paved runways | total: 72 over 3,047 m: 20 2,438 to 3,047 m: 34 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 914 to 1,523 m: 7 under 914 m: 7 (2013) |
| Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 30 over 3,047 m: 3 2,438 to 3,047 m: 5 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 914 to 1,523 m: 13 under 914 m: 6 (2013) |
| Heliports | 16 (2013) |
| Pipelines | gas 2,455 km; liquid petroleum gas 913 km; oil 5,432 km; refined products 1,637 km (2013) |
| Railways | total: 2,272 km standard gauge: 2,272 km 1.435-m gauge (2014) |
| Roadways | total: 59,623 km paved: 59,623 km (includes Kurdistan Region) (2012) |
| Waterways | 5,279 km (the Euphrates River (2,815 km), Tigris River (1,899 km), and Third River (565 km) are the principal waterways) (2012) |
| Merchant marine | total: 2 by type: petroleum tanker 2 registered in other countries: 2 (Marshall Islands 2) (2010) |
| Ports and terminals | river port(s): Al Basrah (Shatt al-'Arab); Khawr az Zubayr, Umm Qasr (Khawr az Zubayr waterway) |