title: Transport in Belarus
text: This article is about transport in Belarus.
  
  Railways 
  
  Rail transport in Belarus is operated by Belarusskaya Chyhunka
  total:
  
  country comparison to the world: 32
  broad gauge:
   of  gauge ( electrified) (2006)
  
  City with underground railway system: Minsk, see Minsk Metro
  For tramway systems: see List of town tramway systems in Belarus
  
  Highways 
  
  The owners of highways may be the Republic of Belarus, its political subdivisions, legal and natural persons, who own roads, as well as legal entities, which roads are fixed on the basis of economic or operational management.
  
  Republican state administration in the field of roads and road activity is the Department Belavtodor under the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus.
  
  In total, in Belarus there are more than  of roads and  of departmental thousand (agriculture, industry, forestry, etc.), including  in cities and towns. The density of paved roads has been relatively low – 337 km per 1,000 km2 territory – for comparison, in European countries with well-developed road network, the figure is an average of .
  
  total:
  
  paved:
   (2003)
  
  Waterways 
   (use limited by location on perimeter of country and by shallowness) (2003)
  country comparison to the world: 37
  
  Belarus' inland waterways are managed by Dneprobugvodput, Belvodput, and the Dnieper-Berezinsky Enterprise.
  
  Pipelines 
  gas ; oil ; refined products  (2008)
  
  Ports and harbors 
   Mazyr - on the river Pripyat
  
  Airports 
  
  65 (2008):
  country comparison to the world: 76
  
   Minsk International Airport
   Minsk-1
   Gomel Airport
  
  Airports - with paved runways 
  
  total:
  35
  over :
  2
  :
  22
  :
  4
  :
  1
  under :
  6 (2008)
  
  Airports - with unpaved runways 
  total:
  30
  :
  1
  :
  1
  :
  2
  under :
  26 (2008)
  
  Heliports 
  1 (2007)Heliports is where helicopter land.
  
  National air-carrier 
  Belavia
  
  See also
  Transport in the Soviet Union
  Vehicle registration plates of Belarus
  
  References
  
  External links
  Automobiles, Trains And Buses - Getting Around Belarus