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40 km Paracel Islands: none Paraguay: 3,100 km Peru: 8,808 km note: 8,600 km of navigable tributaries of Amazon system and 208 km of Lago Titicaca Philippines: 3,219 km note: limited to vessels with a draft of less than 1.5 m Pitcairn Islands: none Poland: 3,812 km (navigable rivers and canals) (1996) Portugal: 820 km note: relatively unimportant to national economy, used by shallow-draft craft limited to 300 metric-ton or less cargo capacity Puerto Rico: none Qatar: none Reunion: none Romania: 1,724 km (1984) Russia: 95,900 km (total routes in general use) note: routes with navigation guides serving the Russian River Fleet-95,900 km; routes with night navigational aids-60,400 km; man-made navigable routes-16,900 km (Jan 1994) Rwanda: note: Lac Kivu navigable by shallow-draft barges and native craft Saint Helena: none Saint Kitts and Nevis: none Saint Lucia: none Saint Pierre and Miquelon: none Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: none Samoa: none San Marino: none Sao Tome and Principe: none Saudi Arabia: none Senegal: 897 km note: 785 km on the Senegal river, and 112 km on the Saloum river Seychelles: none Sierra Leone: 800 km (of which 600 km navigable year round) Singapore: none Slovakia: 172 km (all on the Danube) Slovenia: NA Solomon Islands: none Somalia: none South Africa: NA South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: none Spain: 1,045 km (of minor economic importance) Spratly Islands: none Sri Lanka: 430 km (navigable by shallow-draft craft) Sudan: 5,310 km Suriname: 1,200 km note: most important means of transport; oceangoing vessels with drafts ranging up to 7 m can navigate many of the principal waterways Svalbard: none Swaziland: none Sweden: 2,052 km note: navigable for small steamers and barges Switzerland: 65 km note: The Rhine carries heavy traffic on the Basel-Rheinfelden and Schaffhausen-Bodensee stretches; there are also 12 navigable lakes Syria: 870 km (minimal economic importance) Tajikistan: none Tanzania: note: Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, and Lake Nyasa are principal avenues of commerce between Tanzania and its neighbors on those lakes Thailand: 4,000 km note: 3,701 km are navigable
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