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What is the name of the longest national highway in the world, how long is it and where is it?
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#70789. Asked by skysmom65. (Sep 16 06 11:31 AM)
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waussie
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highway 1 circumnavigates australia , covering 14523 km.could be the longest ?
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skysmom65
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Waussie: No that's not it...I'm looking for the longest NATIONAL highway in the world.
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What-A-Mess
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Highway 1 is Australia's coastal highway joining all mainland's state capitals and coastal towns circumnavigating the entire Australian continent. At the total length of more than 20,000 kilometres, it is the longest national highway in the world.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_1_(Australia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_1_(Australia)
The Alaska Highway, also the Alaskan Highway, Alaska-Canadian Highway, and the Alcan Highway, runs from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Fairbanks, Alaska, via Whitehorse, Yukon. Its historical length as of all-weather completion in 1943 is 2,451 kilometers or 1,523 mile(s) long.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Highway
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big-al1st
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The world's longest highway is the Trans-Canada Highway, which stretches over 7,699 kilometres.
ask.yahoo.com/ask/20020208.html
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What-A-Mess
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The Trans-Siberian Highway spans nearly the width of Russia. It stretches over 6500 miles (10,500 kilometers) from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok and is the longest roadway in a single country. The road remained largely unfinished up until early 2004, when Russian President Vladimir Putin symbolically opened it, with great swaths of forest separating major portions from one another. Even today, in some places, it is a modern paved highway with painted reflective lane-lines and in others, a single meandering, pockmarked, loose-gravel trail. Be that as it may it is one of the greatest engineering feats in human history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Highway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Highway
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Brainyblonde
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The Trans Canada Highway Route is not one long highway. It is a number of different highways link together to form the system. In fact, in 1981 when I drove from Surrey to Toronto and a few years later to Halifax it wasn’t one continuous system. There were small breaks in it.
The Trans-Canada Highway links several provincial highways, some of which are 4-lane divided, but many stretches (much through isolated wilderness and agricultural land) are still 2 lanes. It connects Highway #1 (#16 is the northern route) in the BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, with #17 in Ontario (#69, #12, #7 in the southern route), #40, #20 and #185 in Quebec, #2 in New Brunswick, #104 and #105 in Nova Scotia, and #1 in PEI and in Newfoundland. There is no Trans-Canada Highway through the Yukon, Northwest Territories, or in Nunavut (nor in Newfoundland's Labrador).
http://www.transcanadahighway.com/general/transcanadahighway.htm
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peasypod
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Ok, it may well be beacause it's too early on a Sunday morning and I've was out far too late last night, but does someone want to tell me why Australia suddenly lost its 'NATIONAL' status?
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lanfranco
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I'm rather perplexed myself. I did grow up being taught that Australia was an independent nation, regardless of whether it has the longest "national highway."
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arctic_wolves
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What-A-Mess is correct:
Highway 1 is Australia's coastal highway joining all mainland's state capitals and coastal towns circumnavigating the entire Australian continent. At the total length of more than 20,000 kilometres, it is the longest national highway in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_1_(Australia)
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big-al1st
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I am probably wrong but does it depend on the definition of a highway. Parts of Highway 1 in Australia is dirt track. Is that a defined highway. Should it not have at least hard standing all the way.
Just a thought. Would like to knwo the proper answer.
Glad I did'nt ask this quation in a quiz because of all the different answers lol
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skysmom65
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Dang Big! I'm beginning to be sorry for ever asking it in the first place. I just went with the info I found...guess I should do better research in the future! :o(
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