Highway network in Iraq
The highway network in Iraq currently consists of the only highway between Baghdad and the Kurdish north and other expressways.
The major highways were built in the 1970s and 1980s and were considered exemplary until the First Gulf War in 1990/1991, as they were designed for higher axle loads than required (16.3 t instead of the permitted axle load of 13.2 t). By 2009 only 10% of the motorway and 5% of the expressways were in poor condition. The entire regional road network covers around 45,550 km, of which around 38,400 are paved. In 2009, around 1,000 km of these were motorways and 11,000 km were expressways.
The conditions on the roads are now considered to be “chaotic”, as the roads cannot keep up with the growth of traffic.
List of the motorway and the main expressways
Highways
| Short | Surname | course | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | Basra - Nasiriya - Diwaniya - Hilla - Baghdad - Fallujah - Ramadi - ar-Rutba | 1200 | |
| A2 (under construction) | |||
| A4 (projected) | Erbil - Haji Omeran |
Motorways and expressways
| Short | Surname | course | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baghdad - Taji - Samarra - Tikrit - Mosul - border with Syria | 1200 km | |
| 2 | Baghdad - Baquba - Chalis - Kirkuk - Erbil - Mosul - Dohuk - Zachu - border with Turkey | 540 km | |
| 3 | Baghdad - Baquba + Erbil - border with Iran | approx. 100 km | |
| 4th | Kirkuk - Sulaimaniya - Darbinadichan - Jalawla - as-Sa'diya | 180 km | |
| 5 | Baquba - Muqdadiya - as-Sa'diya - Chanaqin - border with Iran | 160 km | |
| 6th | Baghdad - Kut - Amara - Basra | 550 km | |
| 7th | Kut - ash-Shatra - Nasiriya | 100 km | |
| 8th | Baghdad - Hilla - al-Qādisiya - as-Samawah - Nasiriya - Basra - border with Kuwait | 600 km | |
| 9 | Karbala - Najaf - Diwaniyya | 100 km | |
| 10 | ar-Rutba - border with Jordan | 60 km | |
| 11 | Baghdad - Fallujah - Ramadi - ar-Rutba - border with Syria | 470 km | |
| 12 | Ramadi - Hīt - Haditha - al-Karābila - border with Syria | 240 km |
More trunk roads
| Short | Surname | course | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Chanaqin , Mendaq , Badra , Jalal , Sheikh Fares | ||
| 14th | western connecting route | ||
| 15th | Badra , Mehran ( Iran ) | ||
| 16 | Nasiriya , Amara (Iraq) | ||
| 17th | Diwaniya , Qalat Sukkar , Amara (Iraq) | ||
| 18th | Haqlaniyah , Baiji , Kirkuk | ||
| 19th | Haqlaniyah , Baiji , Kirkuk | ||
| 20th | Safra, ar-Rutba | ||
| 21st | Talihh , Nuchayib | ||
| 22nd | Karbala , Nuchayib | ||
| 23 | Fallujah , Samarra | ||
| 24 | Tikrit , Kirkuk | ||
| 26th | Basra , Umm Qasr | ||
| 27 | Hilla , Numaniya , Sarhad | ||
| 28 | Towards Samawa | ||
| 29 | Samawa and Salman, Basra | ||
| 30th | H-3 (airfield) , Jordan | ||
| 31 | Basra , northern Rumaila | ||
| 46 | Arbat , Iran | ||
| 47 | Mosul , Syria | ||
| 55 | Tikrit , Tuz Churmatu | ||
| 70 | Hilla , Najaf , Abu SZ | ||
| 71 | Abu SZ, Diwaniya | ||
| 80 | Kirkuk , Mosul | ||
| 82 | Baquba , Mendaq | ||
| 84 | Karbala , Hilla | ||
| 84 | Jordan (numbered as trunk road 1) | ||
| 97 | Baghdad , Abu Ghraib |
literature
- Shymaa el- Aboodi: Exploratory investigation of the specific framework conditions in Iraq: Recommendations for action and concepts for building up the local construction industry in Iraq. Univerlagtuberlin, 2009. ISBN 978-3-7983-2125-0 ( online at Google Books )
Web links
Commons : Roads in Iraq - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Literature Aboodi
- ^ Iraq road network in the ÖAMTC country information database. Status: January 2016