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69,989 km (2004) Uzbekistan total: 81,600 km paved: 71,237 km unpaved: 10,363 km (1999) Vanuatu total: 1,070 km paved: 256 km unpaved: 814 km (1999) Venezuela total: 96,155 km paved: 32,308 km unpaved: 63,847 km (1999) Vietnam total: 222,179 km paved: 42,167 km unpaved: 180,012 km (2004) Virgin Islands total: 1,257 km (2004) West Bank total: 4,996 km paved: 4,996 km note: includes Gaza Strip (2004) World total: 32,345,165 km paved: 19,403,061 km unpaved: 12,942,104 km (2002) Yemen total: 71,300 km paved: 6,200 km unpaved: 65,100 km (2005) Zambia total: 91,440 km paved: 20,117 km unpaved: 71,323 km (2001) Zimbabwe total: 97,440 km paved: 18,514 km unpaved: 78,926 km (2002) This page was last updated on 8 February, 2007 ====================================================================== @2086 Illicit drugs Afghanistan world's largest producer of opium; cultivation dropped 48% to 107,400 hectares in 2005; better weather and lack of widespread disease returned opium yields to normal levels, meaning potential opium production declined by only 10% to 4,475 metric tons; if the entire poppy crop were processed, it is estimated that 526 metric tons of heroin could be processed; source of hashish; many narcotics-processing labs throughout the country; drug trade source of instability and some antigovernment groups profit from the trade; 80-90% of the heroin consumed in Europe comes from Afghan opium; vulnerable to narcotics money laundering through informal financial networks Albania increasingly active transshipment point for Southwest Asian opiates, hashish, and cannabis transiting the Balkan route and - to a far lesser extent - cocaine from South America destined for Western Europe; limited opium and growing cannabis production; ethnic Albanian narcotrafficking organizations active and expanding in Europe; vulnerable to money laundering associated with regional trafficking in narcotics, arms, contraband, and illegal aliens Angola used as a transshipment point for cocaine destined for Western Europe and other African states Anguilla transshipment point for South American narcotics destined for the US and Europe Antigua and Barbuda considered a minor transshipment point for narcotics bound for the US and Europe; more significant as an offsh
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