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English: Shows the gauge which is currently most used in each country (main colour), with other significant gauges used depicted as small squares on top of the main colour. Grey indicates no railways.

Français : Montre l'écartement le plus utilisé dans chaque pays (couleur principale), les autres écartements significatifs sont illustrés par des petits carrés superposés sur la couleur principale. Le gris signifie pas de chemins de fer.

Español: Muestra la trocha (ancho de vía) más usada en cada país (color principal), con otros calibres significativos como pequeños cuadrados superpuestos sobre el color principal. El color gris indica carencia de ferrocarriles.

中文（简体）：显示当前在每个国家/地区最常用的规格（主要颜色），其他重要规格在主要颜色顶部显示为小方块。灰色表示没有铁路。

中文（繁體）：顯示當前在每個國家/地區最常用的規格（主要顏色），其他重要規格在主要顏色頂部顯示為小方塊。灰色表示沒有鐵路。

Date

27 November 2006

Source

Made using the list on CIA Factbook railways and Seabhcan's railmap. Uses File:BlankMap-World-v8.png

Author

Own work

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	22:40, 18 January 2025	1,425 × 800 (48 KB)	Orattas	Rail transport in Lebanon ceased to exist with start of the Lebanese Civil War and its railway tracks and almost all train stations have been destroyed.
	13:22, 16 December 2024	1,425 × 800 (103 KB)	Rtfroot	2024 update
	21:56, 8 January 2017	1,425 × 800 (49 KB)	Saitek780	Correction of mistake about gauges in Sardinia (which has got both 1435 and 950 mm gauges)
	13:42, 20 November 2016	1,425 × 800 (45 KB)	Metrancya	The meter gauge railway line in Ethiopia and Djibouti is out of use. Instead a standard gauge railway has been built between Addis Abeba and Djibouti and opened in 2016. In addition a standard gauge light rail system is in use in Addis. More standard g...
	00:45, 4 October 2016	1,425 × 800 (45 KB)	Kendall-K1	Paste in a fresh copy of the key, which has developed some resize artifacts
	00:40, 7 May 2016	1,425 × 800 (52 KB)	Jackdude101	Ignore previous edit. Moved Indian gauge square in US (indicating the BART system in San Francisco) to center of country, to maintain consistent pattern present for all countries on the map. The BART system is the only railway in the US with this tr...
	00:36, 7 May 2016	1,425 × 800 (52 KB)	Jackdude101	Moved Indian gauge square in US (indicating the BART system in San Francisco) to center of country, to maintain consistent pattern present for all countries on the map. The BART system is the only railway in the US with this track gauge, but whatever.
	09:12, 23 November 2015	1,425 × 800 (51 KB)	Trotting cove	tidy up legend by removing redundant border line
	10:22, 24 February 2015	1,425 × 800 (26 KB)	Mjdestroyerofworlds	BART
	10:17, 24 February 2015	1,425 × 800 (26 KB)	Mjdestroyerofworlds	Reverted to version as of 17:39, 7 March 2014