10 countries with the largest railway network
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United States has the world's largest railway network.
United States
Rank: 1
Railway network: 224,792 km
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Image: Commuters move through the grand hall of Grand Central Terminal in New York.
Photographs: Brendan McDermid/Reuters.
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Russia
Rank: 2
Railway network: 87,157 km
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Image: A train moves along the Trans-Siberian Railway through the Taiga district, some 90 km (56 miles) southwest of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Photographs: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters.
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China
Rank: 3
Railway network: 86,000 km
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Image: A train employee prepares to enter a CRH (China Railway High-speed) Harmony bullet train at Beijing South Railway Station.
Photographs: Jason Lee/Reuters.
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India
Rank: 4
Railway network: 63,974 km
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Image: Commuters disembark from crowded suburban trains during the morning rush hour at Churchgate railway station in Mumbai.
Photographs: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters.
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Canada
Rank: 5
Railway network: 46,552 km
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Image: A Via Rail Canada passenger train pulls into Dorval Station in Montreal.
Photographs: Shaun Best/Reuters.
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Germany
Rank: 6
Railway network: 41,981 km
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Image: Trains during a strike of German railway operators Deutsche Bahn in Cologne.
Photographs: Ina Fassbender/Reuters.
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Australia
Rank: 7
Railway network: 38,445 km
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Photographs: Jason Antony/Wikimedia Commons
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Argentina
Rank: 8
Railway network: 36,966 km
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Photographs: Schummy/Wikimedia Commons.
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