Cairo-Dakar Highway

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The Cairo-Dakar Highway is a section of the Trans-African Highway (TAH) 1 in the international highway network developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) , the African Development Bank (ADB) and the African Union . Most of the highway between Tripoli and Nouakchott was built under the direction of the Arab Maghreb Union .

location

The Cairo-Dakar Highway has a length of 8,636 km and runs along the Mediterranean coast of North Africa and then further along the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa. Most of the route is paved. In 2005, the last major section between Nouakchott and Nouadhibou in Mauritania was completed, only a 4 km long section is missing in the no man's land between the border post of the Western Sahara controlled by Morocco and the Mauritanian border, where there is only one lane in the desert. The trunk road is connected to the Dakar-Lagos Highway (TAH 7) and thus forms a north-south connection between Rabat and Monrovia through the Sahara along the west coast of the continent.

The border between Morocco and Algeria has been completely closed since 1994, so that the entire length of the Cairo-Dakar Highway is not passable.

route

Only the larger cities were considered, which are almost directly on the highway, the table starts from Cairo and ends in Dakar.

country place Length
(from Cairo) 		Length
(between location)
EgyptEgypt Egypt Cairo 0000 km
Alexandria 0231 km 231 km
Mersa Matruh 0532 km 301 km
Egypt-Libya border 0761 km 229 km
LibyaLibya Libya Tobruk 0902 km 141 km
Benghazi 1384 km 482 km
Sirte 1970 km 586 km
Misrata 2211 km 241 km
Msallata 2331 km 120 km
Tripoli 2434 km 103 km
Abu Kammash 2588 km 154 km
Libya-Tunisia border 2611 km 023 km
TunisiaTunisia Tunisia Sfax 2939 km 328 km
Sousse 3072 km 133 km
Tunis 3224 km 152 km
Bizerta 3299 km 075 km
Tunisia-Algeria border 3445 km 146 km
AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria Constantine 3850 km 405 km
El Eulma 3971 km 121 km
Sétif 4006 km 035 km
Bordj Bou Arreridj 4083 km 077 km
Bouira 4184 km 101 km
Algiers 4291 km 107 km
Blida 4342 km 051 km
Ech Cheliff 4509 km 167 km
Sidi bel Abbès 4761 km 252 km
Tlemcen 4852 km 091 km
Maghnia 4903 km 051 km
Algeria-Morocco border 4920 km 017 km
MoroccoMorocco Morocco not built 1 4924 km 004 km
El Aioun 4973 km 049 km
Taza 5127 km 154 km
Fez 5236 km 109 km
Meknes 5303 km 067 km
Rabat 5454 km 151 km
Casablanca 5544 km 090 km
Marrakech 5749 km 205 km
Tiznit 6079 km 330 km
Guelmim 6190 km 111 km
Morocco-Western Sahara border 6565 km 375 km
Western SaharaWestern Sahara Western Sahara El Aaiún 6638 km 073 km
Western Sahara-Mauritania border 7478 km 840 km
MauritaniaMauritania Mauritania Nouadhibou 7549 km 071 km
Nouakchott 8051 km 502 km
Mauritania-Senegal border 8265 km 214 km
SenegalSenegal Senegal Saint-Louis (Senegal) 8368 km 103 km
Thiès 8563 km 195 km
Dakar 8636 km 073 km
Total route: 8636 km
1 This part of the route has not yet been built due to border disputes between Algeria and Morocco

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