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Ivory Coast
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Figure 12. Transportation System, 1988
Source: Based on information from J.-N. Loucou, "Histoire," in
Pierre Vennetier (ed.), Atlas de la Côte d'Ivoire (2d
ed.), Paris, 1983, 59-61.
Following independence, the government invested heavily
in
infrastructure to transport the country's major export
products.
The relatively well-developed transport infrastructure was
believed
to be instrumental in the spectacular growth of the
country's
economy between 1960 and 1979. In 1986 the transport
network
included more than 53,736 kilometers of roads, of which
some 3,765
kilometers were paved; 660 kilometers of railroads; two
major
seaports; 980 kilometers of navigable inland waterways
(primarily
lagoons because the country's rivers were not navigable);
3
international airports; 13 major domestic airfields; 17
smaller
regional airfields; and 50 private airfields.
Data as of November 1988
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