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Countries with the Longest Road Networks Quiz

Can you name the 20 countries that have the longest total length of roadways?
Source: Wikipedia
Includes paved and unpaved roads
Quiz by duckling07
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Last updated: August 11, 2020
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Length (km)
Answer
6,853,024
United States
5,903,293
India
5,012,500
China
1,751,868
Brazil
1,529,373
Russia
1,215,000
Japan
1,052,210
Thailand
Length (km)
Answer
1,042,300
Canada
965,446
France
950,974
Indonesia
920,217
Australia
750,014
South Africa
683,175
Spain
644,480
Germany
Length (km)
Answer
579,564
Sweden
487,700
Italy
454,000
Finland
426,906
Turkey
423,997
Poland
397,039
United Kingdom
39 Comments
+7
Level 71
Oct 13, 2016
Cool.
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Level 61
Sep 23, 2020
Nice font dude.
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Level 60
Sep 23, 2020

Agreed

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Level 96
Oct 13, 2016
Nice quiz, with some very interesting answers.
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Level 65
Aug 11, 2020
I cant believe Mexico is not here, HOW BAD is our infrastructure!
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Level 68
Sep 23, 2020
Be glad. Too many roads are terrible for wild animals and for people trying to get some peace and quiet away from traffic. Also, they take up a lot of space that is missing for agriculture, forestry or recreation.
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Level 68
Sep 29, 2021
Yeah true, so I think maybe total area of roads would be a more accurate measure.

But still, nice concept.

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Level 78
Aug 11, 2020
Good one.
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Level 70
Aug 12, 2020
I have to say this quiz had really interesting answers, like the whole mix is quite a unique one you don't usually see together. Fun quiz 10/10
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Level 79
Aug 12, 2020
Great quiz, really good idea. I did here a stat (unverified) that China's road building programme over the last 25 years has laid enough tarmac to entirely cover the UK
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Level 83
Aug 12, 2020
Thailand more than Canada? More than Australia? Wow.
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Level 57
Aug 16, 2020
Yeah Thailand's road network is crazy long!
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Level 81
Sep 23, 2020
That suprised me a little bit, too, but come to think of it, with all the time I've spent in Thailand I've done almost no traveling by road, aside from the bus between Bangkok and Pattaya/Jomtien, and the shuttle between different areas around Phuket, mostly traveled by air, by sea, or by rail there.
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Level 69
Jul 24, 2023
Absolutely nobody asked
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Level 78
Sep 23, 2020
Bangkok tourists love to roam around, and Bangkok's working class has to get home to visit sometimes
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Level 96
Aug 20, 2020
Very enjoyable quiz.
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Level 74
Sep 23, 2020
I'm surprised to see Thailand so high, maybe that helps explain why their near the top road fatalities.
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Level 76
Sep 23, 2020
I wonder to what extent we have the same levels of reporting and criteria of roadways for each jurisdiction. The key seems to be a) large geographic areas x b) dense settlement x c) adequate funds for some sort of infrastructural development. I find it hard to believe that Thailand occupies in reality the space it occupies on this list. Anecdotally, I lived in Thailand for a while and it never occurred to me that I was in the Asian Benelux of roadways.
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Level 59
Sep 23, 2020
awesome
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Level 64
Sep 23, 2020
Great quiz. Could we get a similar but only including paved roads?
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Level 68
Sep 23, 2020
I live in Italy and we're almost choked by the road network. Yet, we have almost three times less than Japan, a country of comparable size that has an even bigger railway system. I wonder if they have any free land zone over there.
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Level 69
Sep 23, 2020
Yep, it looks like population and GDP are better indicators than the size of the country.
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Level 71
Sep 23, 2020
A bit surprised at India being higher than China considering China is larger and has better infrastructure. Then again, China has very large remote regions in Tibet and Xinjiang where there's no reason to build vast road networks. Also, it seems that China is #1 in the length of its expressways, waaaaay ahead of India.
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Level 71
Sep 23, 2020
I have faults with the data for Canada, but the quiz is fine based on the wiki.
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Level 67
Sep 23, 2020
I reckon the trans Canada hwy and like Alberta make up most of it lol
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Level 71
Sep 23, 2020
Saskatchewan has more roads than any other province with over 250,000 km.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads_in_Saskatchewan

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Level 68
Jul 1, 2021
(citation needed)

I find it hard to believe that Sask. has more roads than Ontario or Quebec

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Level 68
Jul 1, 2021
Technically, you're not wrong, but only if you're counting dirt roads. They're in fifth place for paved.
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Level 54
Sep 23, 2020
Finland! Nice one.
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Level 65
Sep 23, 2020
Brazil is the 4th, but it depends TOO MUCH on roads. Our train infrastructure is very bad and you barely see people doing intercity travels on trains. Thus, we have lots of deadly accidents on our roads.

The president who started this dependence was Juscelino Kubitschek, the same who built Brasília.

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Level 20
Oct 6, 2020
Was about to give up with 2 seconds left, but my mind keep reading south africa because africa is so underrated. Got it right!!!
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Level 70
Feb 17, 2021
Good quiz, A nice fact would be the length of paved road per sq. km of the nations.
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Level 46
Aug 8, 2021
Got them all bar Thailand, frantically guessing with 10 secs to go tried SA no Kazakhstan no, very surprised it was Thailand.
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Level 67
Nov 6, 2021
incorrect data, thailand does not rank that high
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Level 70
Apr 1, 2022
so is this your first comment?
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Level 79
Feb 20, 2023
They're actually correct - with the 2020 data from the article, Thailand is down to 702,577km, just under South Africa.
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Level 65
Apr 2, 2023
Holy smokes Japan is paved as all hell
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Level 43
Nov 15, 2023
Missed spain
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Level 34
May 1, 2024
How is Pakistan not here?