The transport system of the Danubian countries very poor. Apart from the few main lines, all the lines are single track, and quick repairs are almost impossible in the mounous parts. The whole system of truction is far less solid than the ish, as these countries were always poor in capital.
Roughly one-fifth of the population of Greece lives on islands and three-fifths along the coasts. Among the Danubian States Hungary's position is the best, Rumania's almost the worst. In Hungary there are 8.6 kilometres ocks in every 100 square kilo-n Rumania only 3.79 kilo-the figure for the former Czecho-Slovak Republic was 9.7 kilometres. The partition has left Rumania's situation almost unchanged. Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, roughly one-fifth of the railway were poorly equipped, while mania was better off than the provinces of the Old Kingdom. Rumania efforts a; improvement had achieved little. In the period 1932-9 altogether some 165 kilometres of new tracks were built,
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