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Roads in India are an important mode of transport in India. India has a network of over 6,331,791 kilometres (3,934,393 mi) of roads (as of 31 December 2022 [update] ). This is the second-largest road network in the world, after the United States. [ 2 ] At (1.94 km, 1.21 mi) of roads per square kilometre of land, the quantitative density of ...
Schematic map of National Highways in India. On 28 April 2010, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways officially published a new numbering system for the National Highway network in the Gazette of the Government of India. [1] [2] It is a systematic numbering scheme based on the orientation and the geographic location of the highway. This ...
Kolkata–Durgapur section of India's GQ highway. NH4: Chennai–Mumbai section of the GQ highway near Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu. The Golden Quadrilateral ( Hindi: स्वर्णिम चतुर्भुज, romanized : Svarnim Chaturbhuj; abbreviated GQ) is a national highway network connecting several major industrial, agricultural and ...
A scene from the Ambala cantonment in British India. In the 1830s the East India Company started a program of metalled road construction, for both commercial and administrative purposes. The road, now named the Grand Trunk Road, from Calcutta, through Delhi, to Kabul, Afghanistan was rebuilt at a cost of £1000/mile.
Cities along the Silk Road. This articles lists cities located along the Silk Road. The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes which connected Europe with China, spanning from the Mediterranean Sea to the Korean Peninsula and Japan . The Silk Road's eastern end is in present-day China, and its main western end is Antioch.
The North–South–East–West r (NS-EW) is the largest ongoing highway project in India. It is the second phase of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), and consists of building 7300 kilometers of four/six lane highways associating Srinagar, Kanyakumari, Kochi, Porbandar and Silchar, at a cost of US$12.317 billion ₹1000000000000 ...
Transport in India consists of transport by land, water and air. Road transport is the primary mode of transport for most Indian citizens, and India's road transport systems are among the most heavily used in the world. The Golden Quadrilateral connects the four major metro cities of India, viz., Delhi ( north ), Kolkata ( east ), Chennai ...
The following tables are the list of cities in India by population. Often cities are bifurcated into multiple regions (municipalities) which results in creation of cities within cities which may figure in the list. The entire work of this article is based on the census of India using data from the 2001 census of India and the 2011 census of India, conducted by the Office of the Registrar ...