FACTOID # 6: About one-quarter of all nations drive on the left-hand-side of the road. Most of them are former British colonies.
 
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Countries (A to Z) Description
Antigua and Barbuda it is assumed that the main roads are paved; the secondary roads are assumed to be unpaved (1995)
Aruba most coastal roads are paved, while unpaved roads serve large tracts of the interior (1995)
Bahrain a paved causeway links Bahrain and Saudi Arabia
Bermuda public roads - 209 km; private roads - 241 km (2002)
Bosnia and Herzegovina road system is in need of maintenance and repair (2001)
Chad probably no more than 8,000 km of the total receive maintenance, the remainder being desert tracks (2000)
Gaza Strip small, poorly developed road network
Guam there are also 685 km of roads classified non-public, including roads located on federal government installations
Kiribati 27 km are paved in South Tarawa (2001)
Liberia there is major deterioration on all highways due to heavy rains and lack of maintenance (1996 est.)
Libya data for the length of unpaved roads include the assumption that because they were listed as secondary roads, they are unpaved; some may be paved and some part of the primary roads may not be paved (1996)
Malaysia in addition to these national and main regional roads, Malaysia has thousands of kilometers of local roads that are maintained by local jurisdictions (1999)
Marshall Islands paved roads on major islands (Majuro, Kwajalein), otherwise stone-, coral-, or laterite-surfaced roads and tracks (2002)
Mongolia there are also 45,862 km of rural roads that consist of rough, unimproved, cross-country tracks (2000)
Nigeria many of the roads reported as paved may be graveled; because of poor maintenance and years of heavy freight traffic - in part the result of the failure of the railroad system - much of the road system is barely usable (2001)
Reunion 370 km of road are maintained by national authorities, 754 km by departmental authorities and 1,600 km by local authorities (1994)
Serbia and Montenegro because of the 1999 Kosovo conflict, many road bridges were destroyed; since the end of the conflict in June 1999, there has been an intensive program to either rebuild bridges or build by-pass routes (1999)
Virgin Islands the only US posession where driving on the left side of the road is practiced (2000)
West Bank Israelis have developed many highways to service Jewish settlements

SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003

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