Sri Lanka: Transportation#
| National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 3 inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 25 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 4,911,730 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 381,381,300 mt-km (2015) |
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| Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | 4R (2016) |
| Airports | 19 (2013) |
| Airports - with paved runways | total: 15 over 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 6 914 to 1,523 m: 7 (2013) |
| Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 4 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 3 (2013) |
| Heliports | 1 (2013) |
| Railways | total: 1,447 km broad gauge: 1,447 km 1.676-m gauge (2014) |
| Roadways | total: 114,093 km paved: 16,977 km unpaved: 97,116 km (2010) |
| Waterways | 160 km (primarily on rivers in southwest) (2012) |
| Merchant marine | total: 21 by type: bulk carrier 4, cargo 13, chemical tanker 1, container 1, petroleum tanker 2 foreign-owned: 8 (Germany 8) (2010) |
| Ports and terminals | major seaport(s): Colombo container port(s) (TEUs): Colombo (3,651,963) |