The chart above shows the miles of waterways per square mile of land in US regions.  The South has some of the states with the greatest waterway coverage so it is no surprise that it leads other regions in this metric.

The chart above shows the kilometers of waterways per square kilometer of land in EU regions.  Even though the states with the greatest waterway coverage are from the Western EU, the Northern EU as a region comes out on top.

The chart above shows the miles of waterways per square mile of land in EU and US states.  The Netherlands has the greatest waterway coverage in the EU and the US by so much that it takes the sum of the next five states to rival the Netherlands' waterway coverage.

The chart above shows the kilometers of waterways per square kilometer of land in EU states.  The Netherlands has the greatest waterway coverage in the EU by so much that its waterway coverage is three times as great as the next leading state, Belgium.

The chart above shows the miles of waterways per square mile of land in US states.  Louisiana has the greatest waterway to land ratio of any US state.

The chart above shows the miles of rail per square mile of land in EU and US regions.  The Europeans have more rail per unit of land than we Americans do which is not surprising at all.  What is surprising is that the EU's region with the least rail coverage rivals the US's region with the most rail coverage.

The chart above shows the miles of rail per square mile of land in US regions.  Three regions are all within a tenth of a mile of each other while the West only has a tenth of a mile of rail for every square mile of territory.

The chart above shows the kilometers of rail per square kilometer of land in EU regions.  Clearly there is a sharp divide between the Western and Eastern EU and the Northern and Southern EU, with the former having around a-tenth of a kilometer of rail per square kilometer of territory and the latter having less than half that.

The chart above shows the miles of rail per square mile of land in EU and US states.  The ten states with the greatest railway coverage are all in the EU.  Illinois, which is the US state with the greatest railway coverage ranks 11th.  On the flip side, the 14 states with the least railway coverage are all in the US with Greece, the EU state with the least rail per unit of land coming in at 15th lowest (excluding Hawaii, Malta, and Cyprus which have no rail networks).

The chart above shows the kilometers of rail per square kilometer of land in EU states.  Four states (Luxembourg, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Germany) are far above their peers in railway coverage.  Germany is especially impressive considering the large size of the state.