JAPAN RORD CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION

Statistics

Japan has 378,000 km2 of land, about 70% of which is more or less mountainous.
More than 120 million people live in a country with one of the highe stpopulation densities in the world.More than 78 million vehicles run on the Japan's roads.

Road Category	Length        (thousand km)				Paved Ratio     (% of length)
National Expressways	7.6				100
National Highways	54.8				99
Prefectural Roads	129.4				96
Municipal Roads	1,016.1				77
Total	1,207.9				80
					(at the end of March 2009)

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