701 km navigable by boats with drafts up to 0.9 m (2003)
Togo
50 km (seasonally on Mono River depending on rainfall) (2003)
Turkey
1,200 km (2003)
Turkmenistan
1,300 km (Amu Darya and Kara Kum canal important inland
waterways) (2003)
Uganda
300 km (on Lake Victoria, 200 km on Lake Albert, Lake Kyoga,
and parts of Albert Nile) (2004 est.)
Ukraine
1,672 km (most on Dnieper River) (2004)
United Kingdom
3,200 km (620 km used for commerce) (2004)
United States
41,009 km (19,312 km used for commerce)
note: Saint Lawrence Seaway of 3,769 km, including the Saint
Lawrence River of 3,058 km, shared with Canada (2004)
Uruguay
1,600 km (2002)
Uzbekistan
1,100 km (2004)
Venezuela
7,100 km
note: Orinoco River and Lake de Maracaibo navigable by oceangoing
vessels, Orinoco for 400 km (2004)
Vietnam
17,702 km (5,000 km navigable by vessels up to 1.8 m draft)
(2004)
World
671,886 km (2004)
Zambia
2,250 km
note: includes Lake Tanganyika and the Zambezi and Luapula rivers
(2003)
Zimbabwe
on Lake Kariba, length small (2003)
This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005
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Afghanistan
the new constitution establishes a nine-member Stera
Mahkama or Supreme Court (its nine justices are appointed for
10-year terms by the president with approval of the Wolesi Jirga)
and subordinate High Courts and Appeals Courts; there is also a
Minister of Justice; a separate Afghan Independent Human Rights
Commission established by the Bonn Agreement is charged with
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Supreme Court or Court Supreme
American Samoa
High Court (chief justice and associate justices are
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Andorra
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