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+# Rail Lines (total route-km)
+
+Data on the total kilometers of rail lines in the world. Data obtained from
+the [World
+Bank](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.RRS.TOTL.KM?locations=1W).
+
+The dataset is licensed under [CC BY
+4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and can therefore be
+redistributed as part of this repository. No modifications to the data have
+been made during the conversion to the JSON format.
+
+- ``./API_IS.RRS.TOTL.KM_DS2_en_csv_v2_10520532.csv`` contains the original
+ dataset retrieved from the World Bank.
+- ``./rail_lines.json`` contains the data from the entire world in JSON
+ format.
+
+![Plot of rail_lines dataset](./rail_lines.png)