List of Highways in Iraq

Iraq has a network of highways connecting it from the inside among the Iraq provinces and to the outside neighbouring countries: Iran, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. When Saddam visited the United States in the 1980s, he was impressed by the size and infrastructure of the Highway system. He ordered his engineers to build highways in the American form - wide lanes, shoulders and clover leafs.

Highways Numbers

• Freeway 1 (Iraq)

Highways Numbers

• Highway 1: Baghdad, Taji, Samarra, Tikrit, Mosul, Syria (Kameshli).

• Highway 2: Baghdad, Baqubah, Al Khalis, Kirkuk, Irbil, Mosul, Dohuk, Zakhu, Turkey (Silopi).

• Highway 3: Baghdad to Baqubah + Irbil to Iran (Piranshahr).

• Highway 4: Kirkuk, Sulaymaniyah, Darbinadikhan, Jalaulah, As Sa'Diyah.

• Highway 5: Baqubah, Muqdadiyah, As Sa'Diyah, Khanaqin, Iran (Qasr-e Shirin).

• Highway 6: Baghdad, Al Kut, Al Amarah, Basrah.

• Highway 7: Al Kut, Ash Shatrah, Nasiriyah.

• Highway 8: Baghdad, Al Hillah, Al-Qādisiyyah, As Samawah, Nasiriyah, Basrah, Kuwait.

• Highway 9: Karbala, Al Najaf, Al-Qādisiyyah.

• Highway 10: Al Rutbah, Jordan.

• Highway 11: Baghdad, Al Fallujah, Al Ramadi, Al Rutbah, Syria.

• Highway 12: Al Ramadi, Hīt, Haditha, Al-Karābilah, Syria (Abu Kamal).

Statistics on Roads in Iraq

total: 45,550 km

paved: 38,400 km,

unpaved: 7,150 km (1996 est.)