Top 7 Highways in the World

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 1. Pan-American

The Pan-American Highway is a network of roads stretching across the American continents and measuring about 30,000 kilometres in total length. It was constructed in 1936.


2. Highway 1, Australia

Highway 1 is a network of highways that bypass the country, joining all mainland state capitals. Total length is 14500 Km (approx). It was constructed in 1919.


3. Trans-Siberian

Stretches over 11,000 kilometres from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok. The road disputes the title of the longest national highway in the world with Australia's Highway 1.


4. Trans-Canada

The Trans-Canada Highway is a transcontinental federal-provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada from the Pacific Ocean on the west to the Atlantic on the east. The main route spans 7,821 km across the country, one of the longest routes of its type in the world.


5. Golden Quadrilateral Highway Network, India

The Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) is a national highway network connecting most of the major industrial, agricultural and cultural centres of India. It forms a quadrilateral connecting the four major metro cities of India, viz., Delhi (north), Kolkata (east), Mumbai (west) and Chennai (south). Total distance is 5846 Km. The foundation stone for this undertake was laid by the then Prime Minister of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee in 1999, with the entire stretch being completed in the year 2012.


6. China National Highway G010

China's National Highway G010 is an abolished national highway in China, which runs from Tongjiang in Heilongjiang to Sanya in Hainan. It is 5,700 km in length, the longest China National Highway to date.


7. US Route 20

U.S. Highway 20 (US 20) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs for 5,415 km from Newport, Oregon to Boston, Massachusetts.


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