Photographs: Gary Hershorn/Reuters.
Roadways form the backbone of a country's economic growth. Highways named and numbered by the governments that develop and maintain them.
Australia's Highway 1 is the longest national highway in the world at over 14,500 km. The United States has the world's largest network of highways, including both the Interstate Highway System and the US Highway System.
China's highway network is the second most extensive in the world, with a total length of about 3.573 million km
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Mike Blake/Reuters.
A transport truck travels along Highway One in the Canadian Rocky Mountains near Banff, Alberta.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Steven Hausler/Reuters.
Trucks move in a line during a 'go slow' protest on a highway on their way to Sydney.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Steven Hausler/Reuters.
Cars travel on an almost deserted snow covered downtown highway after an overnight storm dropped five inches of snow in Dallas, Texas.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Dipti Desai/Reuters.
Spectators watch as McLaren Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain drives a F1 car through an unused section of the Bangalore-Mysore highway on the outskirts of Bangalore.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
A man rides a bicycle on a deserted highway, north of Srinagar.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Karnataka prides to have some of the best and well maintained highways in India.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Jumana El Heloueh/Reuters.
Cars pass through an electronic toll gate on a highway in Dubai. Launched in July 2007, the Salik (open or clear) toll collection system currently has four electronic gates in Dubai.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
A policeman salutes on Yazahdani Road as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's motorcade drives to the President's
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
An aerial photograph shows traffic on the southern portion of the 18-Mile Stretch, a facet of US Highway 1 that connects South Florida with the Florida Keys in Key Largo, Florida.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Eric Thayer/Reuters.
The 10/110 freeway interchange is seen in Los Angeles, California.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Lucas Jackson/Reuters.
A flock of geese walk near a flooded section of Highway 23 in Wayne, New Jersey.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Jumana El Heloueh/Reuters.
Buildings are seen under construction, along with rush hour traffic as a Dubai Metro train arrives at a station in Dubai.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters.
An aerial view shows the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Matt Sullivan/Reuters.
A sign posted on Interstate 70 warns drivers of animals loose in the area around Zanesville, Ohio.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters.
A truck transports a pickup truck on a highway near Tunis.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Aly Song/Reuters.
Vehicles drive on a flyover during the evening rush hour in central Shanghai.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Reuters.
Taxis line up to get their tanks filled on a ramp in Chongqing municipality.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Morris Mac Matzen/Reuters.
A car drives along the A20 highway near the northern German city of Luebeck.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Mike Blake/Reuters.
Rush hour traffic travels north and south along Interstate highway 5 in Carlsbad, California.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters.
Motorists use PLUS Expressways along Sungai Buloh outside Kuala Lumpur.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters.
Vehicles drive during sunrise in the Taiga area along the M54 highway Krasnoyarsk-Mongolia.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Germany's autobahn network has a total length of about 12,819 km, making it the fifth-longest in the world
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Anthony Bolante/Reuters.
I-5 Interstate Highway traffic crawls along the Southbound lane into downtown Seattle after an overnight winter storm brought heavy snows to the Puget Sound region.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters.
A man rides a motorbike down the Panamerican highway in heavy rain.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Alberto Berti/Reuters.
An aerial view of trucks blocking a highway toll booth during a transport strike on the outskirts of Rome.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Mick Tsikas/Reuters.
Cars drive over a bridge towards central Melbourne.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Jamal Saidi/Reuters.
A rainbow is seen in Batroun in northern Lebanon.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
Photographs: Mohsin Raza/Reuters.
Men transport a goat on a motorcycle ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in Lahore.
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Stunning photos of highways across the world
The Pan-American Highway is a network of roads stretching across a distance of 47,958 kilometres.
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