Transport in Belarus consists of an extensive network of railways, roads, inland waterways, pipelines, and airports that support domestic travel and international transit. Owing to its central location in Eastern Europe, Belarus serves as an important transport corridor between Russia and the European Union, with rail and road transport playing a particularly significant role.
Rail transport in Belarus is operated by Belarusskaya Chyhunka <br>total:
<br>country comparison to the world: 32 <br>broad gauge: of gauge ( electrified) (2006)
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 km<sup>2</sup> territory – for comparison, in European countries with well-developed road network, the figure is an average of .
total:
<br>paved: (2003)
(use limited by location on perimeter of country and by shallowness) (2003) <br>country comparison to the world: 37
Belarus' inland waterways are managed by Dneprobugvodput, Belvodput, and the Dnieper-Berezinsky Enterprise.
gas ; oil ; refined products (2008)
65 (2008): <br>country comparison to the world: 76
total: 35 <br>over : 2 <br>: 22 <br>: 4 <br>: 1 <br>under : 6 (2008)
total: 30 <br>: 1 <br>: 1 <br>: 2 <br>under : 26 (2008)
1 (2007)Heliports is where helicopter land.