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
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@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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