RIPEstat counts 897 routed networks in Türkiye, 224 in Kazakhstan

Türkiye has 1,112 registered autonomous systems (networks) and 897 of them are routed, the largest count among the nine corridor states, RIPE NCC's RIPEstat data for 28 October show.

The same query returns 267 registered and 224 routed for Kazakhstan, 176 and 155 for Georgia, and 9 and 8 for Turkmenistan. We ran all nine country queries on 30 October; each reported the same data point, 28 October 2026 at 00:00 UTC, the latest available.

Registered and routed counts are as returned by RIPEstat. The last two columns are on a Corridor Signal calculation.

The two columns come from different records. The RIPEstat documentation for the country-asns call says registered networks are "based on registration information made public by the Regional Internet Registries", while the routing figure is "based on the data collected with the RIPE NCC's RIS system". The call returns only the two totals by default, and its data points follow the times RIS dumps are created, at 00:00, 08:00 and 16:00 UTC.

RIS, the Routing Information Service, is described by the RIPE NCC as a routing data collection platform that gathers BGP data through remote route collectors, typically located at internet exchange points, with volunteer networks peering with them. The routed count is taken from that collected data. A registered network that does not is a gap between two records. The documentation does not say why a given network is missing, so the figures show no more than that.

On our calculation, 1,729 of the 2,085 registered networks in the nine states are routed, or 82.9 per cent. Türkiye accounts for 215 of the 356 that are not, because its routed share of 80.7 per cent is the lowest in the group. The other eight sit between 83.9 per cent (Kazakhstan) and 88.9 per cent (Turkmenistan), a narrow band; in Turkmenistan the difference is one network.

The routed count is a useful denominator for other measures. Our analysis of exchange-point coverage used the Internet Society's Pulse tracker, whose page for Türkiye puts active networks at 881, against RIPEstat's 897 routed. The figures are close but not equal, and neither source says its count follows the other's rules, so a coverage percentage from one should not be applied to a count from the other. The earlier piece found Georgia at 21 per cent coverage and Tajikistan at 97 per cent; the routed counts above, 155 and 39, show how different the bases are.

The counts sit apart from the infrastructure stories we cover, such as Kazakhstan's west-east fibre route. Türkiye's 897 routed networks are more than the other eight states combined, which total 832. RIPEstat gives counts, not traffic, size or ownership.

RIPEstat refreshes the data three times a day, so a repeat query will move the figures. We will rerun the nine queries for a later edition of this column.