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Indian states with the largest highway network
Last updated on: May 3, 2012 13:47 IST
Image: Indian army soldiers travel in a vehicle on a mountainous road covered by snow after the Srinagar-Leh highway was opened.
Photographs: Fayaz Kabli/Reuters.
India has the second largest road network in the world, stretching across a distance of 33 lakh kilometres.
While National Highways cover a distance of 71,772 kilometres, state highways stretch across a distance of 1,31,899 kilometres.
Take a look at the states with the largest stretch of highways, according to the National Highway Authority of India.
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Image: Lucknow.
Photographs: Courtesy, UP tourism website.
1. Uttar Pradesh
Total highway length: 6,788 kilometres
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Image: Rajasthan
Photographs: Courtesy, Rajasthan Tourism website.
2. Rajasthan
Total highway length: 6,373 kilometres
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Image: Madhya Pradesh.
Photographs: Courtesy, Madhya Pradesh Tourism website.
3. Madhya Pradesh
Total highway length: 5,027 kilometres
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Image: An aerial view of Marina beach.
Photographs: Babu/Reuters.
4. Tamil Nadu
Total highway length: 4,832 kilometres
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Image: Osmansagar Lake.
Photographs: Courtesy, AP tourism.
5. Andhra Pradesh
Total highway length: 4,537 kilometres
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Image: Bangalore-Mysore highway.
Photographs: Dipti Desai/Reuters.
6. Karnataka
Total highway length: 4,396 kilometres
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Image: Rain clouds gather over western express highway in Mumbai.
Photographs: Punit Paranjpe/Reuters.
7. Maharashtra
Total highway length: 4,191 kilometres
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Image: A flooded highway in Orissa.
Photographs: Reuters.
8. Orissa
Total highway length: 3,704 kilometres
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Image: Patna railway station.
Photographs: Bihar Tourism website.
9. Bihar
Total highway length: 3,642 kilometres
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Image: Surat.
Photographs: Courtesy, Wikimedia Commons.
10. Gujarat
Total highway length: 3,281 kilometres
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Image: Indian truck drivers cook a meal along a highway near Boksher village.
Photographs: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters.
11. Assam
Total highway length: 2,836 kilometres.
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Image: A car passes on a highway beneath pre-monsoon clouds in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata.
Photographs: Reuters.
12. West Bengal
Total highway length: 2,578 kilometres.
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Image: Chhatisgarh.
Photographs: Courtesy, Chhatisgarh Tourism.
13. Chhatisgarh
Total highway length: 2,184 kilometres
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14. Uttarakhand
Total highway length: 2,042 kilometres.
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Image: Arunachal Pradesh.
Photographs: Courtesy, Arunachal Pradesh Tourism website.
15. Arunachal Pradesh
Total highway length: 1,992 kilometres
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Image: Netarhat, a tourist spot.
16. Jharkhand
Total highway length: 1,805 kilometres
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Image: Chandigarh.
Photographs: Reuters.
17. Punjab
Total highway length: 1,557 kilometres
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Image: A helper rolls a tyre near the parked trucks during a strike by truckers in Chandigarh.
Photographs: Ajay Verma/Reuters.
18. Haryana
Total highway length: 1,518 kilometres
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Image: A road in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
19. Kerala
Total highway length: 1,457 kilometres
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Image: A yak is seen close to tourists after a snowfall in Solang Valley in Himachal Pradesh.
Photographs: Adnan Abidi/Reuters.
20. Himachal Pradesh
Total highway length: 1,409 kilometres
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Image: A man rides a bicycle on a deserted highway, north of Srinagar.
Photographs: Reuters.
21. Jammu & Kashmir
Total highway length: 1,245 kilometres
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Image: Sahid Minar with Kanglasha at the top (Kanglasha-The State Emblem of Manipur).
Photographs: Wikimedia Commons.
22. Manipur
Total highway length: 959 kilometres
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Image: Bamboo logs are transported down the river Longai near Kanmun village, about 235 km (146 miles) west from Aizawl, Mizoram's capital city.
Photographs: Jayanta Dey/Reuters.
23. Mizoram
Total highway length: 927 kilometres
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24. Meghalaya
Total highway length: 810 kilometres
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Image: Nagaland.
25. Nagaland
Total highway length: 494 kilometres
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