List of roads in Nepal

Highways in Nepal

Roads in Nepal are administered by three levels of Government as below:

Administration of roads in Nepal
# Government Administrative body Type
1 Federal government Department of Roads (under MoPIT) National Highway
2 Provincial government Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development (Provincial government) Provincial Highway
Department of Local Infrastructure (under MOUD)
3 Local government Municipal government Urban/rural road
Department of Local Infrastructure (under MOUD)
Nepal National highways map 2020-21

The Economic Survey 2022-23 released by the Ministry of Finance (Nepal), shows that the country had total road network of national road length 34,100 km that only included roads constructed and maintained by the Department of Roads (DoR). This included only the national highway[1]

E-W (Mahendra) Highway H01 at Eastern starting point Jhapa

National Highway

National Highways are administered by the Department of Roads under the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (Nepal). According to the Statistics of National Highway SNH-2020/21 there are 80 National Highways in Nepal, with a total length of 11178.92 km.[2]

There were only 20 National Highways in Nepal before 2021. In 2021 60 more National highways were announced by the government and corrected the highway numbers.[3][2] Previously National Highways were named but the newly announced highways have no names until now.

List of National Highways

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National Highway System of Nepal
Highways
  • NH01
  • NH02
  • NH03
  • NH04
  • NH05
  • NH06
  • NH07
  • NH08
  • NH09
  • NH10
  • NH11
  • NH12
  • NH13
  • NH14
  • NH15
  • NH16
  • NH17
  • NH18
  • NH19
  • NH20
  • NH21
  • NH22
  • NH23
  • NH24
  • NH25
  • NH26
  • NH27
  • NH28
  • NH29
  • NH30
  • NH31
  • NH32
  • NH34
  • NH35
  • NH36
  • NH37
  • NH40
  • NH41
  • NH42
  • NH43
  • NH44
  • NH45
  • NH46
  • NH47
  • NH48
  • NH49
  • NH50
  • NH51
  • NH52
  • NH53
  • NH54
  • NH55
  • NH56
  • NH57
  • NH58
  • NH59
  • NH60
  • NH61
  • NH62
  • NH63
  • NH64
  • NH65
  • NH66
  • NH67
  • NH68
  • NH69
  • NH70
  • NH71
  • NH72
  • NH73
  • NH74
  • NH76
  • NH79
  • NH80
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  • NH38
  • NH39
  • NH75
  • NH77
  • NH78

Provincial Highways

Bagmati Provincial Highway with National Highway

There are seven provinces in Nepal which have many provincial highways and provincial roads which are marked by province's government. Provincial highways or roads are marked as below:

Road codes of Provincial Highway in Nepal
# Province Provincial Highway Provincial Road
1 Koshi KH-00 KR-00
2 Madhesh MH-00 MR-00
3 Bagmati BH-00 BR-00
4 Lumbini LH-00 LR-00
5 Gandaki GH-00 GR-00
6 Karnali KH-00 KR-00
7 Sudurpashchim SH-00 SR-00
8 Nepal NH-00

'00' stands for highway or road numbers.

Urban/rural roads

Urban/Rural roads are the roads that are administered by local government e.g. Municipality and Rural Municipality. The road codes of the Local roads are coded as follows:

  • Urban/Rural road of a Municipality in Bagmati Province = BUR00
  • Urban/Rural road of a Municipality in Koshi Province = KUR00

"00" represents road numbers e.g. BUR01, KUR05

Agriculture road

Nepal has special kind of road for agricultural areas and such roads are constructed by Department of Local Infrastructure.[4]

See also

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Types of road
Limited-access
By country
Main roads
Local roads
Other terms
Road junctions
Interchanges
(grade-separated)
Intersections
(at-grade)
Surfaces
Road safety
factors
Road and
environment
Human factors
Vehicles
Space and
time allocation
Demarcation
Structures
Performance
indicators

References

  1. ^ "Economy Survey 2022-23" (PDF). 13 March 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Statistics of National Highway [SNH 2020-21]". Department of Roads, Nepal. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Existing Highways and proposed extension". Department of roads. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
  4. ^ "ट्रयाक खुलेको आठ वर्षपछि सडक स्तरोन्नति सुरु". Khabarhub. 2023-09-28. Retrieved 2023-10-12.

External links

  • "Department of Roads of Nepal".
  • "Roads Board Nepal". Archived from the original on 2009-12-02.
  • "Nepal Road Standard 2070".