R10 (Jordan)
| R10 in Jordan | |
| 10 | |
| Basic data | |
| Operator: | |
| Start of the street: |
Irbid ( 32 ° 36 ′ N , 35 ° 36 ′ E ) |
| End of street: |
Tarbil ( 32 ° 44 ' N , 39 ° 0' O ) |
| Overall length: | 350 km |
| of which in operation: | 350 km |
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Map with all coordinates: The Route 10 is a highway in Jordan . The road is the northernmost east-west route in the country, from Route 65 via Irbid to the border with Iraq . Route 10 is 350 kilometers long.
Street description
Route 10 starts near the border with Israel on 65 . There is no connection to the border with Israel. The road has four lanes and leads east to the city of Irbid, through a hilly area with a length of about 25 km. This part of Jordan is farmed and there are a few villages along the way. The road runs right through the city of Irbid, where it crosses 35 . East of Irbid, the road is still built as a four-lane, crossing south of Ramtha the 25 via a cloverleaf-shaped cross . The road then continues southeast through dry areas with little agriculture, which then gradually turn into a desert . At al-Mafraq you cross the important road 15 , another cloverleaf-shaped cross. The four-lane expansion ends here.
Further east of the road there are no more places along Route 10 and the road runs parallel to the border with Syria, it gradually leads into the Arabian desert. About halfway between Irbid and the Iraqi border, the connection to the 5 . The desert is rocky in the first part and later sandy with small hills. The last 200 kilometers through eastern Jordan, the route mostly runs straight through the desert. The road leads through uninhabited area to the border with Iraq. On the Iraqi side, a highway continues east to Baghdad .
history
Route 10 has always been one of the most important transit routes and strategically important route into Iraq. As it is the only east-west route in the entire region, Route 10 is very important for Jordan, even though it hardly passes through any inhabited area. In the 80s the road to Iraq was upgraded as a motorway, on the Jordanian side it was not developed because the traffic intensity was not that high. However, in 2005 the four-lane expansion west of Irbid was extended towards Route 65, and in 2011 the section between al-Buwayda and al-Mafraq was opened to four lanes.