List of Important National Highways in India

List of Important National Highways in

India

The list of major highways in India with their routes is given below:

Highway

Route

NH 1

Delhi-Ambala-Jalandhar-Amritsar-Indo-Pak Border

NH 1A

Jalandhar-Madhopur-Jammu-Banihal-Srinagar-Baramula-Uri

NH 1B

Batote-Doda-Kishtwar-Sinthan pass – Khanabal

NH 1C

Domel to Katra

NH 1D

Srinagar-Kargil-Leh

NH 2

Delhi-Mathura-Agra-Kanpur-Allahabad-Varanasi-Mohania-Barhi Palsit-

Baidyabati-Bara-Calcutta

NH 2A

Sikandra to Bhognipur

NH 2B

Burdwan – Bolpur road (via Talit, Guskara, and Bhedia)

NH 3

Agra-Gwalior-Shivpuri-Indore-Dhule-Nasik-Thane-Mumbai

NH 4

Junction with National Highways No. 3 near Thane-Pune Belgaum-

Hubli-Bangalore-Ranipet-Chennai

NH 4A

Belgaum-Anmod-Ponda-Panaji

NH 4B

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust near Km 109-Palaspe

NH 5

Junction with National Highways No. 6 near Baharagora-Cuttack

Bhubaneshwar-Visakhapatnam -Vijayawada-Chennai

NH 5A

Junction with National Highway No. 5 near Haridaspur-Paradip Port

NH 6

Hajira-Dhule-Nagpur-Raipur-Sambalpur-Baharagora-Calcutta

NH 7

Varanasi-Mangawan-Rewa-Jabalpur-Lakhnadon-Nagpur-Hyderabad-

Kurnool-Bangalore-Krishnagiri-Salem-Dindigul-Madurai-Cape-

Kanyakumari

NH 7A

Palayamkottai-Tuticorin Port

NH 8

Delhi-Jaipur-Ajmer-Udaipur-Ahmedabad-Vadodara-Mumbai

NH 8A

Ahmedabad-Limbdi-Morvi-Kandla-Mandvi-Vikhari-Kothra-Naliya

Narayan Sarovar

NH 8B

Bamanbore-Rajkot-Porbandar

NH 8C

Chiloda to Sarkhej

NH 8D

Chiloda-Gandhinagar-Sarkhej

NH 8E

Somnath to Bhavnagar

NH 9

Pune-Sholapur-Hyderabad-Vijayawada-Machilipatnam

NH 10

Delhi-Fazilka-Indo Pak Border

NH 11

Agra-Jaipur-Bikaner

NH 11A

Manoharpur-Dausa-Lalsot-Kothum

NH 12

Jabalpur-Bhopal-Khilchipur-Aklera-Jhalawar-Kota-Bundi-Deoli Tonk-

Jaipur

NH 18

Junction with NH 7 near Kurnool and Nandyal to Cuddapah and Junction

with NH 4 near Chittoor

NH 19

Ghazipur-Balia-Patna

NH 20

Pathankot -Mandi

NH 21

Junction with National Highway No. 22 near Chandigarh-Ropar-Bilaspur-

Mandi-Kullu-Manali

NH 22

Ambala to Indo China Border near Shipkila

NH 23

Chas-Ranchi-Rourkela-Talcher- Junction with National Highway No. 42

NH 24

Delhi- Bareilly-Lucknow

NH 27

Allahabad to Mangawan

NH 29

Gorakhpur to Varanasi

NH 30

Junction with NH 2 near Mohania and Patna to Bakhtiyarpur

NH 35

Barasat to Petrapole on India and Bangladesh border

NH 39

Numaligarh to Palel and Indo Burma Border

NH 47

Salem to Kanyakumari

NH 47A

Junction with NH 47 at Kundanoor to Willington Island in Kochi

NH 47C

Junction with NH 47 at Kalamassery to Vallarpadam ICTT in Kochi

NH 55

Siliguri to Darjeeling

NH 56

Lucknow to Varanasi

NH 58

Delhi to Mana Pass

NH 79

Ajmer-Nasirabad-MP border

NH 151

Karimganj – Bangladesh Border

NH 152

Patacharkuchi-Bhutan border

NH 153

Ledo – Lekhapani – Indo / Myanmar – Border

NH 233

The highway starting from India/Nepal border (connecting to Lumbini)

via Naugarh, Siddharthnagar, Bansi, Basti, Tanda, Azamgarh and

terminating at Varans

Longest Highway In India

The NH 44 is the longest National Highway in India. National Highway 44 (NH 44) was

previously known as National Highway 7. NH 44 is 3,745 km long and covers the North-South

Corridor of NHDP. It starts from Srinagar in the north and ends in Kanyakumari in the south.

The NH 44 highway has come into being by merging seven major national highways of old

numbers that include NH 1A, NH 1, NH 2, NH 3, NH 75, NH 26 and NH 7.

Longest Highway In India: Facts

➤India has the second largest road network in the world,

➤There are over 200 national highways and their cumulative length adds up to 101,011 km. The

total length of state highways in India add up to 1,31,899 km.

➤The main highway is of 2-digit number and all the highways that are numbered in three digits

are technically branches to the main highway.

➤For example: 144 number highway is a secondary branch of highway number 44. These are

further broken into sub-divisions and named with a suffixed alphabet, like 144A, 244A, etc.

➤The national highways consume only 1.8% of all Indian roads. Yet they control 40% of road

traffic in the country.

➤Colors in National Highways:

*Yellow and white color is for national highways.

*Green and white for state highways

*Black and white is for city highway

➤NH 118 along with NH 548 are the shortest national highway in India. NH 118 connects the

towns Asanbani and Jamshedpur in the state of Jharkhand, running for a distance of only about 5

km. The NH 548 traverses the state of Maharashtra for about 5 km of length.

➤Leh-Manali Highway is the world’s second highest-altitude motor highway which connects

Shimla in Himachal Pradesh to Leh in Jammu and Kashmir.