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Countries with the Least Dense Road Networks

Can you name the countries that have fewest kilometers of road per square kilometer of area?
Derived from these Wikipedia pages: 1, 2
Includes paved and unpaved roads. No data exists for the Vatican.
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Last updated: August 18, 2020
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km / sq km
Country
0.0065
Sudan
0.0103
Mauritania
0.0150
Niger
0.0181
Mali
0.0202
Papua New Guinea
0.0263
Suriname
0.0308
Botswana
0.0313
Chad
0.0325
Central African Republic
0.0328
Mongolia
km / sq km
Country
0.0341
Eritrea
0.0343
Gabon
0.0347
Somalia
0.0357
Kazakhstan
0.0362
Madagascar
0.0371
Guyana
0.0400
Mozambique
0.0413
Angola
0.0477
Algeria
0.0481
Solomon Islands
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Level 87
Aug 18, 2020
Amazed that Libya isn't on here. Or even Canada -- there are very few roads in the entire northern half, and it's BIG up there.
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Level 84
Aug 19, 2020
Thought the same, along with Mongolia.
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Level 75
Oct 17, 2020
Thought the same for Namibia.
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Level 23
Apr 12, 2023
Thought the same for Greenland.
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Level 82
Oct 17, 2020
yeah pretty amazing. and Russia due to Siberia. Just demonstrates how poor and sparse the infrastructure is in all the countries that DO make the list.
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Level 85
Aug 18, 2020
South Sudan is missing from your road network source.
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Level 89
Aug 19, 2020
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Level 72
Aug 18, 2020
Interesting - Solomon Islands has a much larger area than I thought, especially compared to the other countries in Oceania, hence its position on this list. Good quiz!
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Level 20
Aug 24, 2020
Solomon islands is nearly as big as albania
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Level 86
Aug 18, 2020
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."

"We're going to Sudan?"

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Level 63
Oct 10, 2020
Are dependent territories excluded? Otherwise, according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Greenland) Greenland has 150 km of roads. Now, mainland Denmark + Faroe + Greenland would have 79,599 km of roads, on a total land of 2,220,093 km², which would result in a 0.036 1/km ratio, which would result in Denmark being included in the answers.
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Level 70
Oct 17, 2020
I'm assuming it must not be included, but this should be mentioned in the comments.
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Level 65
Apr 27, 2021
This is wrong, Greenland is always no data, so it doesn't count.
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Level 56
Oct 17, 2020
What gets me is the massive gap in the figures between first and second, and then again between second and fifth.
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Level 65
Oct 17, 2020
Brilliant quiz. I would have said that both Congos were on this list.
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Level 75
Oct 17, 2020
I'd bet that, in reality, they should both be here.
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Level 82
Oct 17, 2020
Republic of Congo is pretty small and dense, DRC is very populous; I wouldn't be so sure.
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Level 63
Dec 10, 2021
Even compared to other levels with bad geographical conditions as well as corruption, the DRC's road network is notoriously bad. This means that travelling by canoe is the primary means of transport. There lacks any paved road connecting the eastern cities of the DRC to the west of the country (including Kinshasa). In reality, there are only 2 paved long-distance roads, one being a road going through the western cities in the DRC and one which connects Kinshasa to the Atlantic ocean. Despite the population density there are more similarities to the road system of Mongolia than that of other African countries. The reason this probably doesn't appear on the list is that many of the unpaved informal roads are counted by the government while in many places there wouldn't be any proper recording of it in the data which Wikipedia uses.
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Level 71
Apr 7, 2023
@agoel, you're probably right. Looking at the Wikipedia page, only 2% of the roads they counted in the DRC are paved. I'm guessing many of the other 98% are barely even roads.
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Level 68
Nov 23, 2023
The ROC isn't dense at all. The size of Germany but only 6 million inhabitants.
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Level 70
Oct 17, 2020
Not the easiest quiz! I definitely expected Iceland to be here.
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Level 83
Nov 10, 2020
A lot of Iceland is pretty empty, sure, but I got the impression that (a) it's still a very small country and (b) there are roads to basically everywhere
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Level 49
Nov 25, 2020
greenland doesnt count to denmark does it? bc i feel like denmark would be 1 then
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Level 39
Dec 14, 2021
what about denmark? didn't know there were tons of roads on greenland
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Level 48
Apr 11, 2023
Solomon Islands: maybe the only Oceania country I didn't try.
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Level 78
Jun 29, 2023
I think the proper term is "most un-densest" but I could be wrong.
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Level 68
Jul 10, 2023
Hard! But fun :)