Ranking
Countries by gas pipeline length
Countries ranked by the length of tracked gas transmission pipeline crossing them. A pipeline crossing several countries counts in full for each.
Top 50 countries
- United States427,382 km
- China258,104 km
- Russia189,291 km
- Canada87,249 km
- India54,185 km
- Australia50,192 km
- Colombia43,856 km
- Kazakhstan43,782 km
- France42,908 km
- Iran35,839 km
| # | Country | Pipelines | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 516 | 427,382 km |
| 2 | China | 979 | 258,104 km |
| 3 | Russia | 284 | 189,291 km |
| 4 | Canada | 75 | 87,249 km |
| 5 | India | 75 | 54,185 km |
| 6 | Australia | 149 | 50,192 km |
| 7 | Colombia | 38 | 43,856 km |
| 8 | Kazakhstan | 52 | 43,782 km |
| 9 | France | 24 | 42,908 km |
| 10 | Iran | 40 | 35,839 km |
| 11 | Algeria | 126 | 33,696 km |
| 12 | Ukraine | 47 | 31,963 km |
| 13 | Türkiye | 48 | 31,779 km |
| 14 | Turkmenistan | 24 | 31,523 km |
| 15 | Uzbekistan | 31 | 31,505 km |
| 16 | Argentina | 52 | 27,614 km |
| 17 | Italy | 158 | 26,607 km |
| 18 | Brazil | 71 | 25,739 km |
| 19 | Mexico | 62 | 25,473 km |
| 20 | Spain | 65 | 23,233 km |
| 21 | Germany | 105 | 23,045 km |
| 22 | Nigeria | 36 | 19,733 km |
| 23 | Pakistan | 70 | 18,596 km |
| 24 | United Kingdom | 42 | 16,487 km |
| 25 | Libya | 37 | 15,671 km |
| 26 | Bulgaria | 45 | 15,640 km |
| 27 | Greece | 38 | 15,450 km |
| 28 | Austria | 23 | 13,691 km |
| 29 | Iraq | 45 | 12,842 km |
| 30 | Saudi Arabia | 63 | 12,640 km |
| 31 | Indonesia | 50 | 12,372 km |
| 32 | Romania | 32 | 12,025 km |
| 33 | Norway | 35 | 11,919 km |
| 34 | Bangladesh | 62 | 10,968 km |
| 35 | Hungary | 21 | 10,855 km |
| 36 | Myanmar | 9 | 10,033 km |
| 37 | Bolivia | 21 | 9,764 km |
| 38 | Poland | 54 | 9,096 km |
| 39 | Georgia | 24 | 8,953 km |
| 40 | South Africa | 14 | 8,604 km |
| 41 | Croatia | 31 | 8,555 km |
| 42 | Belarus | 20 | 8,122 km |
| 43 | Syria | 7 | 7,922 km |
| 44 | Morocco | 6 | 7,514 km |
| 45 | Egypt | 56 | 7,438 km |
| 46 | Niger | 2 | 7,316 km |
| 47 | Ghana | 10 | 7,244 km |
| 48 | Qatar | 59 | 7,116 km |
| 49 | Azerbaijan | 13 | 6,603 km |
| 50 | Benin | 2 | 6,338 km |
Showing the top 50. A cross-border pipeline is counted at full length for every country it crosses, so these figures sum to more than the network's total length. Browse every country in the directory.
Common questions
Each answer stands on its own.
- Which country has the most gas pipeline?
- United States, with 427,382 km across 516 tracked pipelines.
- Why might these figures not add up to the total network length?
- Because a pipeline that crosses two or more countries is counted at its full length in each one it crosses, the same convention this site's own country pages use. This ranking measures network present in a country, not a share of one continuous route.
- Does this include pipelines that are proposed or under construction?
- Yes — length is a property of a route rather than a statement about capacity, so this ranking, like the length ranking it is grouped from, does not carry the never-add-statuses-together rule that capacity does.
- How is a pipeline's length measured?
- GEM's reported figure where given, and the length measured from the mapped route where none is reported. A pipeline with neither is excluded.