National Highways in India
National highway 44 (NH-44) is the longest national highway in India with a length of 3,745 kilometres running from Srinagar in the north to Kanyakumari in the South.
This highway connects 11 states and about 30 important cities with each other. Apart from this highway Indian government is working on the green highways networks development across the country.
India has Golden Quadrilateral (GQ). GQ is a national highway network that connects the major industrial, agricultural and cultural centers of India.
It forms a quadrilateral connecting the four major metro cities of India, like Delhi (north), Kolkata (east), Mumbai (west) and Chennai (south).
This section of static gk is very important part of competitive exams like IAS, SSC, RRB, CPO, KVS, NVS, RPSC, TNSC, MPPSC, UPSC, Railways, Banking and so many other states and central government job entrance exams.
Here we compiled the list of longest national highways in India. You can download pdf file of this article.
Longest National Highways In India
S.No. | National Highway | Length (km) | Route |
1 | NH 44 (old NH 7) | 3,745 | Srinagar to Kanyakumari |
2 | NH 27 | 3,507 | Porbandar in Gujarat to Silchar in Assam |
3 | NH 48 (old NH 8) | 2,807 | Delhi to Chennai |
4 | NH 52 | 2,317 | Sangrur, Punjab to Ankola, Karnataka |
5 | NH 30 (Old NH 221) | 2,040 | Sitarganj in Uttarakhand to Ibrahimpatnam in Andhra Pradesh. |
6 | NH 6 | 1,873 | Jorabat in Meghalaya and terminates at Selling in Mizoram |
7 | NH 53 | 1,781 | Hajira in Gujarat and Pradip port in Odisha. |
8 | NH 16 (Old NH 5) | 1,711 | East coast of West Bengal to Chennai in Tamil Nadu. |
9 | NH 66 (Old NH 17) | 1,622 | Panvel and terminates at Kanyakumari |
10 | NH 19 (Old NH 20) | 1,435 | Delhi to Kolkata |
11 | NH 34 | 1,426 | Gangotri Dham in Uttarakhand to Lakhnadon in Madhya Pradesh |