Saturday, June 7, 2014

World's 10 longest highways

Rank: 1
 
The United States boasts of some of the world’s longest highways.

Total length: 48,000 kms
The Pan-American Highway is the world's longest ‘motorable road,’ according to Guinness Book of World Records.
The Highway links almost all nations in North and South America except for a stretch of 100 km called the Darien Gap, a forest and swampland.

  
Rank: 2
Highway 1, Australia
 
Total length: 14,500 kms
Highway 1 is a network of highways that goes around the Australian continent, joining all mainland state capitals.
More than a million people use this highway everyday.


Rank: 3
Trans-Siberian Highway

Total length: 11,000 kms
Trans-Siberian Highway starts from St. Petersburg and stretches to Vladivostok in Russia.
A part of the route across the Asian Highway Network is called the AH6.


Rank: 4
Trans-Canada Highway

Total length: 7,821 kms
The Trans-Canada Highway is a transcontinental highway system that connects ten provinces in Canada.

The highway was opened in 1962.


 Rank: 5
Golden Quadrilateral Highway, India

Total length: 5,846 km

The largest highway project in India connects many of the major cities.
The network connects Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai and other cities like Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Surat and Bengaluru, Visakhapatnam and Bhubaneswar.


 Rank: 6
China National Highway 010

Total length: 5,700 km
China's National Highway runs from Tongjiang in Heilongjiang to Sanya in Hainan.
It is also the longest highway in China.


Rank: 7
US Route 20

Total length: 5,415 kms
The US Route 20 is a coast-to-coast road network.

The highway's eastern terminus is in Boston and western terminus is in Newport.


Rank: 8
US Route 6

Total length: 5,158 kms
It is the second-longest highway in the United States and the longest continuous highway.
It is also called Grand Army of the Republic Highway.


Rank: 9
Interstate 90 (I-90), US

Total length: 4,860.2 kms
Interstate 90 (I-90) is the longest Interstate Highway in the United States.


Rank: 10

Interstate 80 (I-80), US

Total length: 4,666 kms
Interstate 80 (I-80) is a transcontinental limited-access highway that stretches from San Francisco to Teaneck.
It was opened to traffic in 1986.