Map Of The World’s Railways

Map found on redditThe map above shows all of the world’s railways (both passenger and freight). It was created using data from TravelGeo’s Open Train Project.

From their website:

The goal of the OpenTrainProject is to gather information about the worldwide passenger train network and provide technical solutions for promotion of this method of transportation.

Here are 5 facts about the world’s railways:

• 153 countries and territories have some sort of railway running in their country.
• The US has the world’s longest railway network at 220,044km most of it just happens to mostly be used for freight rather than passengers (see map below). The EU is not far behind at 211,430km covering a much smaller area and China is number 3 at 159,000km.
• In terms of electrified railways (more often used for passengers). China leads the way at  119,000km, followed again very closely by the EU at 118,363km and India at number 3 with 69,102km.
• Monaco has the world’s densest railway network with 1.7 km of track in just 2.08km2, slightly beating out the Vatican which has 0.3km in 0.5km2. Switzerland has the densest network outside of city states and small islands.
• Saint Kitts and Nevis have the most km of track per capita followed very closely by Canada and Australia.

Now while the map above shows all railways, the team at Open Train Project also created the maps below comparing passenger network size between various continents.

Below we’ll look at all the data, but before I get to it.

The following countries used to have railways:

• Antigua and Barbuda
•  Bahamas
•  Barbados
•  Belize
•  Brunei
•  Burundi
•  Cape Verde
•  Central African Republic
•  Comoros
•  Cyprus
•  Dominica
•  Equatorial Guinea
•  Gambia
•  Grenada
•  Guinea-Bissau
•  Guyana
•  Haiti
•  Iceland
•  Jordan
•  Kiribati
•  Lebanon
•  Libya
•  Malta
•  Micronesia
•  Nicaragua
•  Oman
•  Palau
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Rwanda
•  Saint Lucia
•  Samoa
•  San Marino
•  São Tomé and Príncipe
•  Solomon Islands
•  Somalia
•  Suriname
•  Tonga
•  Trinidad and Tobago
•  Vanuatu
•  Yemen

And these countries never had railways:

• Andorra
•  Bahrain
•  Bhutan
•  Chad
•  Timor-Leste
•  Kuwait
•  Maldives
•  Marshall Islands
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
•  Seychelles
•  Tuvalu

Maps of the Top 5 Railway Networks (by track length)

Map found on Reddit

Full data for countries with railways:

Country/Territory	Total Length (KM)	Electrified Length (KM)	Electrified % of the total	Density (KM of rail per 1,000 KM2 of land area)	Density (KM per 100,000 people)
World	1,374,001	426,313	31.0%	9.23	16.66
United States	220,044	2,011	0.9%	24.06	63.36
European Union	211,430	118,363	56.0%	50.04	46.94
China	159,000	119,000	74.8%	16.94	11.23
Russia	105,000	54,054	51.5%	6.41	72.92
India	69,800	69,102	99.0%	23.48	4.77
Canada	49,422	129	0.2%	5.43	123.16
Argentina	36,966	190	0.5%	13.51	80.62
Germany	33,351	20,851	62.5%	95.68	39.67
Australia	32,924	3,448	10.5%	4.29	122.06
Brazil	29,817	9,025	30.3%	3.57	14.01
France	27,483	16,067	58.5%	50.19	41.23
Japan	27,311	20,534	75.2%	74.92	22.19
Italy	24,567	12,205	49.7%	83.52	41.54
Mexico	23,389	803	3.4%	12.03	17.73
South Africa	20,953	7,413	35.4%	17.27	32.36
Romania	20,077	6,600	32.9%	87.23	106.18
Ukraine	19,787	9,319	47.1%	34.16	50.76
Poland	19,576	12,236	62.5%	63.93	51.33
Iran	16,998	2,200	12.9%	10.44	18.39
Spain	16,355	11,127	68.0%	32.79	34.15
United Kingdom	16,179	6,065	37.5%	66.87	23.26
Kazakhstan	15,530	4,200	27.0%	5.75	74.51
Turkey	13,919	7,142	51.3%	18.09	15.87
Myanmar	11,025	-	0.0%	16.88	20.10
Sweden	10,912	8,186	75.0%	26.59	102.40
Czechia	9,567	3,237	33.8%	123.86	90.18
Indonesia	8,260	621	7.5%	4.56	2.89
Cuba	8,193	-	0.0%	76.97	74.91
Hungary	7,945	2,889	36.4%	87.76	82.48
Pakistan	7,791	27	0.3%	10.11	3.05
Egypt	7,024	62	0.9%	7.06	5.93
Chile	6,634	700	10.6%	8.92	33.40
Sudan	6,084	-	0.0%	3.45	11.78
Finland	5,926	3,270	55.2%	19.50	105.38
North Korea	5,735	3,894	67.9%	47.63	21.58
Saudi Arabia	5,590	453	8.1%	2.60	16.17
Belarus	5,459	874	16.0%	26.90	60.67
Switzerland	5,317	5,317	100.0%	134.55	59.29
Turkmenistan	5,080	-	0.0%	10.81	66.68
Austria	4,859	3,650	75.1%	58.96	53.32
Thailand	4,845	107	2.2%	9.48	6.76
South Korea	4,837	3,787	78.3%	49.75	9.36
Uzbekistan	4,669	2,500	53.5%	10.98	12.60
Algeria	4,560	480	10.5%	1.91	9.61
Bangladesh	4,458	-	0.0%	34.25	2.54
Norway	4,240	2,895	68.3%	11.61	75.40
New Zealand	4,128	506	12.3%	15.68	78.60
DR Congo	4,096	852	20.8%	1.81	3.63
Bulgaria	4,029	3,005	74.6%	37.11	60.00
Serbia	3,764	1,279	34.0%	43.04	56.27
Slovakia	3,626	1,587	43.8%	75.40	66.23
Belgium	3,607	2,960	82.1%	119.12	30.68
Nigeria	3,600	-	0.0%	3.95	1.52
Vietnam	3,315	-	0.0%	10.69	3.26
Mozambique	3,249	-	0.0%	4.13	9.12
Zimbabwe	3,136	313	10.0%	8.11	18.50
Netherlands	3,055	2,314	75.7%	90.60	16.65
Azerbaijan	2,944	1,278	43.4%	35.62	28.31
Angola	2,761	-	0.0%	2.21	7.07
Syria	2,750	-	0.0%	14.98	10.73
Denmark	2,610	964	36.9%	61.51	43.48
Croatia	2,604	985	37.8%	46.53	67.67
Tanzania	2,600	440	15.4%	2.94	3.69
Kenya	2,541	-	0.0%	4.46	4.42
Portugal	2,527	1,791	70.9%	27.59	24.27
Ireland	2,400	53	3.2%	34.84	45.21
Namibia	2,382	-	0.0%	2.89	77.02
Greece	2,240	764	34.1%	17.38	22.54
Ethiopia	2,185	1,401	64.1%	2.19	1.61
Tunisia	2,165	-	0.0%	13.94	17.53
Morocco	2,109	1,022	48.5%	4.73	5.49
Malaysia	2,041	1,028	50.4%	6.21	5.67
Iraq	2,032	-	0.0%	4.68	4.32
Peru	2,020	-	0.0%	1.58	5.84
Bolivia	1,954	-	0.0%	1.80	15.53
Lithuania	1,910	156	8.2%	30.48	67.49
Latvia	1,860	257	13.8%	29.90	100.35
Mongolia	1,810	-	0.0%	1.17	51.46
Uruguay	1,791	-	0.0%	10.23	52.91
Taiwan	1,782	1,300	73.0%	50.32	7.71
Colombia	1,663	-	0.0%	1.50	3.11
Georgia	1,576	1,288	81.7%	22.68	41.40
Sri Lanka	1,561	-	0.0%	24.89	6.72
Israel	1,511	700	46.3%	69.82	15.88
Uganda	1,244	-	0.0%	6.23	2.42
Zambia	1,237	-	0.0%	1.66	5.64
Slovenia	1,209	503	41.6%	60.03	57.11
Estonia	1,161	132	11.4%	27.39	86.37
Moldova	1,151	-	0.0%	35.04	38.42
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,018	565	55.5%	19.96	32.42
Cameroon	977	-	0.0%	2.07	3.27
Ecuador	966	-	0.0%	3.89	5.28
Ghana	953	-	0.0%	4.19	2.72
Senegal	906	-	0.0%	4.71	4.79
United Arab Emirates	900	-	0.0%	10.77	7.93
Botswana	888	-	0.0%	1.57	34.66
Madagascar	848	-	0.0%	1.46	2.59
Guinea	837	-	0.0%	3.41	5.54
Gabon	810	-	0.0%	3.14	31.24
Malawi	797	-	0.0%	8.45	3.59
Congo	795	-	0.0%	2.33	12.26
Benin	758	-	0.0%	6.72	5.12
Mali	729	-	0.0%	0.60	2.89
Mauritania	728	-	0.0%	0.71	13.70
Armenia	703	703	100.0%	24.69	23.81
North Macedonia	683	313	45.8%	27.08	37.66
Cambodia	650	-	0.0%	3.68	3.64
Ivory Coast	639	-	0.0%	2.01	1.95
Burkina Faso	622	-	0.0%	2.27	2.58
Tajikistan	616	-	0.0%	4.40	5.71
Fiji	597	-	0.0%	32.68	63.98
Togo	568	-	0.0%	10.44	5.84
El Salvador	562	-	0.0%	27.12	8.83
Philippines	532	53	10.0%	1.78	0.46
Dominican Republic	517	-	0.0%	10.70	4.49
Liberia	490	-	0.0%	5.09	8.55
Laos	424	414	97.6%	1.84	5.39
Kyrgyzstan	417	-	0.0%	2.17	5.72
Panama	355	-	0.0%	4.78	7.77
Venezuela	336	-	0.0%	0.38	1.18
Albania	334	-	0.0%	12.19	12.05
Eritrea	306	-	0.0%	3.03	8.48
Eswatini	301	-	0.0%	17.50	23.96
Costa Rica	278	-	0.0%	5.44	5.39
Luxembourg	275	275	100.0%	106.18	40.41
Singapore	270	270	100.0%	385.71	4.60
Hong Kong	268	268	100.0%	255.24	3.62
Montenegro	250	225	90.0%	18.59	39.51
South Sudan	248	-	0.0%	0.41	2.03
Suriname	166	-	0.0%	1.06	25.94
Niger	143	-	0.0%	0.11	0.51
Guyana	127	-	0.0%	0.65	15.19
Djibouti	92	-	0.0%	3.97	7.77
Sierra Leone	84	-	0.0%	1.16	0.95
Qatar	82	82	100.0%	7.06	2.63
Afghanistan	75	-	0.0%	0.11	0.17
Honduras	67	-	0.0%	0.60	0.61
Jamaica	65	-	0.0%	6.00	2.29
Saint Kitts and Nevis	58	-	0.0%	223.08	123.61
Nepal	57	-	0.0%	0.40	0.19
Paraguay	38	-	0.0%	0.10	0.54
Mauritius	30	30	100.0%	14.78	2.37
Puerto Rico	17	17	100.0%	1.92	0.53
Brunei	13	-	0.0%	2.47	2.79
Macau	13	13	100.0%	433.33	1.80
Liechtenstein	9.0	9	100.0%	56.25	22.43
Nauru	3.9	-	0.0%	195.00	32.43
Monaco	1.7	2	100.0%	850.00	4.43
Lesotho	1.6	-	0.0%	0.05	0.07
Guatemala	1.6	-	0.0%	0.01	0.01
Vatican City	0.3	-	0.0%	600.00	59.88