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202 THE RAILWAY INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE OF INDIA<br />

real comparative statistics she should appear to be a<br />

non-entity.<br />

We shall now size India up as a railway region from<br />

the standpoint of the number of miles' or kilometr~<br />

(km=5/8 m) available in every 100 square miles. Fo]<br />

1925 a large number of countries may be arranged in the<br />

following three groups:<br />

I<br />

Countries with more than 5 km per 100 sq km<br />

1. Belgium 36-5<br />

2. Great Britain 14-5<br />

3. Switzerland 14·0<br />

4. Germany 12-3<br />

5. Hungary 10-3<br />

6. Czechoslovakia 10-0<br />

7. France 9-7<br />

8. Austria 8-4<br />

9. Italy 6-8<br />

10. Poland 5-0<br />

II<br />

Countries with more than 1<br />

"]. Japan<br />

2. U.S.A. -..<br />

3. Rumania<br />

4. Sweden<br />

5. Spain<br />

.6. Greece<br />

7. South Africa<br />

.8. India<br />

km per 100 sq km<br />

4-5<br />

4-3<br />

4-1<br />

3-5<br />

3-:1<br />

2·5<br />

1·5<br />

1-3

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