rovided by government-operated firm VIA, which has no
trackage of its own

standard gauge: 36,114 km 1.435-m gauge (156 km electrified) (1998)

Cape Verde:
0 km

Cayman Islands:
0 km

Central African Republic:
0 km

Chad:
0 km

Chile:
total: 6,701 km

broad gauge: 2,831 km 1.676-m gauge (1317 km electrified)

narrow gauge: 117 km 1.067-m gauge (28 km electrified); 3,754 km
1.000-m gauge (37 km electrified) (2000)

China:
total: 67,524 km (including 5,400 km of provincial "local"
rails)

standard gauge: 63,924 km 1.435-m gauge (13,362 km electrified;
20,250 km double track)

narrow gauge: 3,600 km 0.750-m and 1.000-m gauge local industrial
lines (1998 est.)

note: a new total of 68,000 km was estimated for early 1999 to take
new construction programs into account (1999)

Christmas Island:
24 km to serve phosphate mines

Cocos (Keeling) Islands:
0 km

Colombia:
total: 3,304 km

standard gauge: 150 km 1.435-m gauge (connects Cerrejon coal mines
to maritime port at Bahia de Portete)

narrow gauge: 3,154 km 0.914-m gauge (major sections not in use)
(2000)

Comoros:
0 km

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
total: 5,138 km (1995)

note: severely reduced route-distance in use because of damage to
facilities by civil strife

narrow gauge: 3,987 km 1.067-m gauge (858 km electrified); 125 km
1.000-m gauge; 1,026 km 0.600-m gauge (2000)

Congo, Republic of the:
total: 894 km

narrow gauge: 894 km 1.067-m gauge (2000)

Cook Islands:
0 km

Costa Rica:
total: 950 km

narrow gauge: 950 km 1.067-m gauge (260 km electrified) (2000)

Cote d'Ivoire:
total: 660 km

narrow gauge: 660 km 1.000-meter gauge; 25 km double track

note: an additional 600 km of this railroad extends into Burkina
Faso, ending at Kaya, north of Ouagadougou (2000)

Croatia:
total: 2,296 km

standard gauge: 2,296 km 1.435-m gauge (983 km electrified) (2000)

Cuba:
total: 11,969 km

standard gauge: 4,807 km 1.435-m gauge (147 km electrified)

note: in addition to the 4,807 km of standard gauge track in public
use, 7,162 km of track is in private use by sugar plantations; about
90% of the private use track is standard gauge and the rest is
narrow gauge (2000)

Cyprus:
0 km

Czech Republic:
total: 9,444 km

standard gauge: 9,350 km 1.435-m standard gauge (2,843 km
electrif