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China Road connects Burma with China.
There are some very long roads in the
world; for example, the Trans-Canadian
Highway stretches across Canada, from the
Pacific Ocean in the west to the Atlantic
Ocean in the east and the Australian Trans-
continental Highway connects north of
Australia to the south.

Roadways in India : India has a large
network of roads. Right from narrow,

kuchcha roads to the fine wide
expressways, India’s road network is the
second largest in the world. All towns and
cities in India are connected by roads. Some
of our roads connect India to its 7 NATIONAL HIGHWAY
LONGEST HIGHWAY
neighbouring countries like Pakistan,
Scale
Kms 100 0 100 200 300 400 500 Kms
Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Not to scale
Bangladesh. The Sher Shah Suri Marg,
earlier known as Grand Trunk Road, connects Kolkata to Peshawar in Pakistan. This
road further goes to Afghanistan. The Indo-Tibet Road connects Tibet to India and

further to China. We also have other roads connecting Bangladesh, Bhutan and Burma
too.
The total length of Indian road network is over 43.20 lakh kilometres. It mainly consists

of expressways (1,000 kilometres), national highways (79,243 kilometres) and state
highways (1,31,899 kilometres). Other roads include district roads and rural roads.
Here are some important roads in India :
u The Golden Quadrilateral is 5,846 km long, and connects
the four major metropolitan cities of Mumbai, Chennai,

Delhi and Kolkata.
u The East-West Corridor and North-South Corridor
connect extreme parts of India.

u The NH-7 (Varanasi to Kanyakumari) is the longest
highway in India with a total length of 4,572 kilometres. Bandra-Worli Sea Link
u The best expressway is called the 95-km-long Ahmedabad-Vadodara Expressway.

Know It!
v The longest river road bridge in India is the Mahatma Gandhi Setu over the Ganga in Bihar.
v The longest over bridge is located in Kanpur and measures 23 kilometres.
v The longest sea bridge is the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in Mumbai.

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