LNG Atlas

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

Pipeline length, top 10 countries
  1. United States427,382 km
  2. China258,104 km
  3. Russia189,291 km
  4. Canada87,249 km
  5. India54,185 km
  6. Australia50,192 km
  7. Colombia43,856 km
  8. Kazakhstan43,782 km
  9. France42,908 km
  10. Iran35,839 km
#CountryPipelinesLength
1United States516427,382 km
2China979258,104 km
3Russia284189,291 km
4Canada7587,249 km
5India7554,185 km
6Australia14950,192 km
7Colombia3843,856 km
8Kazakhstan5243,782 km
9France2442,908 km
10Iran4035,839 km
11Algeria12633,696 km
12Ukraine4731,963 km
13Türkiye4831,779 km
14Turkmenistan2431,523 km
15Uzbekistan3131,505 km
16Argentina5227,614 km
17Italy15826,607 km
18Brazil7125,739 km
19Mexico6225,473 km
20Spain6523,233 km
21Germany10523,045 km
22Nigeria3619,733 km
23Pakistan7018,596 km
24United Kingdom4216,487 km
25Libya3715,671 km
26Bulgaria4515,640 km
27Greece3815,450 km
28Austria2313,691 km
29Iraq4512,842 km
30Saudi Arabia6312,640 km
31Indonesia5012,372 km
32Romania3212,025 km
33Norway3511,919 km
34Bangladesh6210,968 km
35Hungary2110,855 km
36Myanmar910,033 km
37Bolivia219,764 km
38Poland549,096 km
39Georgia248,953 km
40South Africa148,604 km
41Croatia318,555 km
42Belarus208,122 km
43Syria77,922 km
44Morocco67,514 km
45Egypt567,438 km
46Niger27,316 km
47Ghana107,244 km
48Qatar597,116 km
49Azerbaijan136,603 km
50Benin26,338 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.