The Entire Railway Network of the World
Credits: @TravegeoPlanner
Credits: @TravegeoPlanner
The US has the world's longest railway network at 202,500 kilometers, followed by China at 139,000 km and India at 95,981 km.
When we see the data visually however does it hit how dense Europe is but since the network is spread across nations, they don't feature in the list. EU has a total of 208,000 km
It is interesting to see how ununiformly railways are spread all over the world in tiny pockets - within countries also, the distribution isn't uniform. Like how Eastern US has a higher densely packed network than the Western half.
Tibet (Western half of Chinese territory) has basically no railway compared to the Eastern Chinese network.
In India, hilly areas of J&K, Ladakh, Himachal, Uttarakhand and even Naxal areas of southern Chhattisgarh and the Thar regions of Rajasthan, border areas of NE India - all have sparse distributions.
Central Africa, Northern Latin America, all of northwest Australia and northeast Russia are also free of railway networks.
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