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Also included is additional data on the length of each country or region's controlled-access highway network (also known as a motorway, expressway, freeway, etc.), designed for high vehicular traffic. Unless otherwise noted, the data is from the United States's Central Intelligence Agency. [1] * indicates Roads in Country/Territory links.
The most dangerous road in Malaysia. [7] Trans Sumatra Toll Road [8] 2,048 km (1,272 mi) Indonesia: Banda Aceh: Bakauheni: It is expected to be completed in 2029. Length is the total planned network length. North–South expressway: 1,941 km (1,206 mi) Vietnam: Hanoi: Cần Thơ: Majority of the route still planned or under construction
This is far less highway and road distance than the United States, which is smaller, but has more than 6,000,000 km (3,700,000 mi) of paved roads and highways. However, Canada still has many more roads and highways than Russia, the largest country in the world in land area, with an estimated just 336,000 kilometres (208,000 miles) of paved roads.
The Pan-American Highway is a vast network of roads that stretches approximately 30,000 kilometers (about 19,000 miles) from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in the northernmost part of North America to Ushuaia, Argentina, at the southern tip of South America. It is recognized as the longest road in the world and serves as a significant overland route ...
Major highways are often named and numbered by the governments that typically develop and maintain them. Australia's Highway 1 is the longest national highway in the world at over 14,500 kilometres (9,000 mi) and runs almost the entire way around the continent. China has the world's largest network of highways, followed closely by the United ...
By the end of 2020, the total length of China's expressway network reached 161,000 kilometres (100,000 mi), [5] the world's largest expressway system by length, having surpassed the overall length of the American Interstate Highway System in 2011. [6] Many of the major expressways parallel routes of the older China National Highways.
1 World's longest road tunnels in use. Toggle World's longest road tunnels in use subsection. 1.1 Under construction. 2 Timeline of world record lengths. 3 See also ...
This is a sortable list of countries by rail transport network size based on length of rail lines. [1] ... World 1,374,001 426,313 31.03% 107.95 372.12 4,814 2006