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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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Indian states with the largest highway network

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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Indian states with the largest highway network

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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Indian states with the largest highway network

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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Indian states with the largest highway network

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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Indian states with the largest highway network

Image: Nagaland.

25. Nagaland

Total highway length: 494 kilometres

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