Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved. 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.
Aerial View of The Karakoram Highway. The Karakoram Highway (Urdu: شاہراہ قراقرم, Śāhirāh-i Qarāquram), also known as the KKH, National Highway 35 (Urdu: قومی شاہراہ ۳۵), N-35, and the China–Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1,300 km (810 mi) national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit ...
In 2017 a 52-kilometre (32 mi) paved road was constructed between the villages of Chisumle and Demchok by the Border Roads Organisation of India. The elevation at Umling La of 19,024 feet (5,799 m) surpassed the record previously held by the 18,953-foot (5,777 m) Uturuncu volcano road, Bolivia, making it the world's highest motorable road and pass. [2]
The height according to the Tibet Department of Transportation is 5,565 m (18,258 ft); [1] however, the signage at the road rounded it up to 5,566 m (18,261 ft). In 2005, a Catalan cartographic expedition certified the height to be 5,565.1 m (18,258 ft). [4] [2] At 5,565 metres (18,258 ft), Semo La may be the highest asphalted road in the world.
Longest road in the United States. [4] Ruta Nacional 40: 5,194 km (3,227 mi) Argentina: Cape Virgenes, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina: La Quiaca, Provincia de Jujuy: At km 4601 is the highest road outside the Himalayas with 5000 msal and the longest in South America. Interstate 90: 4,861 km (3,020 mi) United States: Seattle, Washington: Boston ...
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 road is one of the world's highest motoroable roads. [1] The elevation of Khardung La is 5,359 m (17,582 ft). [2] Local summit signs and dozens of stores selling shirts in Leh incorrectly claim its elevation to be in the vicinity of 5,602 m (18,379 ft) and that it is the world's second highest motorable pass.
Bettmeralp, Riederalp and Fiescheralp are car-free resorts. Highest paved roads: Bettmeralp (2,037 m) is a cattle farm, located above Bettmersee (2,009 m) and Bettmeralp village (1,970 m). Riederalp (1,905 m) village is generally located lower, but there is a steep concrete-paved road to near Hotel Riederfurka, to 2,064 m.