Roadways and Automobiles
See also: List of highways in Iran, Iranian automobile industry, and Environmental issues in Iran- Total: 172,927 km (2006)
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- Paved: 125,908 km (includes 1,429 km of expressways)
- Unpaved: 47,019 km
Note: there were more than 11 million vehicles in Iran by 2010 mostly manufactured or assembled locally.
Read more about this topic: Transport In Iran
Famous quotes containing the word automobiles:
“Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose and propriety, of concern with why something was developed rather than with how it has actually been found useful. The function of automobiles is to transport people and objects, but they are used for a variety of other purposes—as homes, offices, bedrooms, henhouses, jetties, breakwaters, even offensive weapons.”
—Frank Smith (b. 1928)