National Highway 16

National Highway NH16 in India
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Basic data
Operator:	National Highways Authority of India
Start of the street:	Haora ( 22 ° 39 ′  N , 88 ° 19 ′  E )
End of street:	Chennai ( 13 ° 9 ′  N , 80 ° 13 ′  E )
Overall length:	1,664 km
States :	West Bengal Odisha Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu
Course of the road West Bengal NW to Asansol NE to Barasat SO to Calcutta S to Haldia Odisha W to Keonjhar N to Bankura Baripada N to Baripada Baleswar Bhadrak O to Jajpur NW to Keonjhar Brahmani NW to Talcher , E to Paradeep NW to Angul Mahanadi Cutack O to Puri Bhubaneswar Khordha W to Nayagarh Berhampur NW to Titlagarh SE to Gopalpur Andhra Pradesh Vamsadhara Nagavali NW to Paralakhemundi Srikakulam NW to Vizianagaram Visakhapatnam Anacapalus (EMR)  S to Kakinada NW to Korukonda SE to Ravulapalem Rajahmundry Godavari N to Polavaram N to Zangareddigudem N after Tadepallegudem Eluru Vijayawada W to Hyderabad , O to Machilipatnam Krishna Guntur W after Narasaraopet N to Narasaraopet, S to Chirala O to Machilipatnam Ongols W to Pamuru Kavali W to Sangam Pennar Nellore O to Krishnapatnam Gudur W to Tirupati Tamil Nadu W to Vellore , O to Chennai Chennai Tambaram S to Puducherry , N to Chennai  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The National Highway 16 ( NH 16 ) is a federal highway in the east of the state of India with a length of 1,664 kilometers. The road has four lanes throughout, but not always like a motorway. It begins near Calcutta in the state of West Bengal and after 180 km in West Bengal leads a further 447 km through Odisha and around 1,000 km through the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh along the Bay of Bengal . Finally it ends after 80 km in the state of Tamil Nadu near the metropolis of Chennai (Madras).

Renumbering of national roads

The current NH 16 highway used to be called NH 5 . The former NH 16 trunk road is now called NH 63 .

Web links

Commons : NH 16  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ministry of Road Transport and Highways : Rationalization of Numbering Systems of National Highways (PDF; 3.4 MB)