Iraq has a network of highways connecting it from the inside among the Iraq provinces and to the outside neighboring countries: Iran , Turkey , Syria , Jordan , Saudi Arabia and Kuwait . When Saddam Hussein visited the United States in the 1980s, he was impressed by the size and infrastructure of the highway system. He ordered his engineers to build highways in the American form - wide lanes, shoulders and clover leaves.
( M1 ) Motorway 1 . Near Kuwait Border- Baghdad- Jordan Border (Iraq)
( M31 ) Motorway 31 . Basra - M1 Junction (Iraq)
( M88 ) Motorway 88 . Route 2 junction - Syria Border (Iraq)
( M90 ) Motorway 90 . Erbil - Duhok (Iraq)
( M96 ) Motorway 96 . Jordan Border - M1 Junction (Iraq)
( M97 ) Motorway 96 . Baghdad - Abu Ghraib - M1 Junction (Iraq)
( M120 ) Motorway 120 . Erbil Ring Road (Iraq)
( M150 ) Motorway 150 . Erbil Ring Road (Iraq) Highway 1 : Baghdad , Taji , Samarra , Tikrit , Mosul , Syria (Kameshli ).
Highway 2 : Baghdad , Baqubah , Al Khalis , Kirkuk , Irbil , Mosul , Dohuk , Zakhu , Turkey (Silopi ).
Highway 3 : Erbil to Iran (Piranshahr ).
Highway 4 : Kirkuk , Sulaymaniyah , Darbandikhan , kalar , Jalawla , As Sa'Diyah .
Highway 5 : Baqubah , Muqdadiyah , As Sa'Diyah , Khanaqin , Iran (Qasr-e Shirin ).
Highway 6 : Baghdad , Al Kut , Al Amarah , Basrah .
Highway 7 : Al Kut , Ash Shatrah , Nasiriyah .
Highway 8 : Baghdad , Al Hillah , Al-Qādisiyyah , As Samawah , Nasiriyah , Basrah , Kuwait .
Highway 9 : Karbala , Al Najaf , Al-Qādisiyyah .
Highway 10 : Al Rutbah , Jordan .
Highway 11 : Baghdad , Al Fallujah , Al Ramadi , Al Rutbah , Syria .
Highway 12 : Al Ramadi , Hīt , Haditha , Al-Karābilah , Syria (Abu Kamal ).Road 13: Khanaqin , Mandali , Badra , Jalat, Shaykh Faris
Road 14: Ali Al-Gharbi , Jalat
Road 15: Badra , Iran (Mehran )
Road 16: Nasiriyah , Amarah
Road 17: Diwaniyah , Qalat Sukkar , Amarah
Road 18: Erbil , Suleymaniyah
Road 19: Haqlaniyah , Bayji , Kirkuk
Road 20: Safra, Rutba
Road 21: Toliaha, Nukhayb
Road 22: Karbala , Nukhayb
Road 23: Faluja , Samarra
Road 24: Takrit , Kirkuk
Road 26: Basra , Umm Qasr
Road 27: Hilla , Numaniya , Sarhad
Road 28: Abu Sukhayr , Samawa
Road 29: Samawa , As Salman , Basra
Road 30: H-3 Air Base , Jordan
Road 34: Baghdad to Baqubah
Road 45: Kifri , Qaradagh , Sulaymaniyah
Road 46: Arbat , Iran
Road 47: Mosul , Syria
Road 55: Takrit , Tuz Khurmato
Road 70: Hilla , Najaf , Abu Sukhair
Road 71: Abu Sukhayr , Diwaniyah
Road 80: Kirkuk , Mosul
Road 82: Baquba , Mandali
Road 84: Karbala , Hilla
Road 77: Zakho , Amedi
Road 93: Batifa , Kani_Masi Statistics on roads in Iraq [ edit ] Total: 45,550 kilometres (28,300 mi)
Paved: 38,400 kilometres (23,900 mi)
Unpaved: 7,150 kilometres (4,440 mi), 1996 est.
Freeways
M1
M31
M88
M90
M96
M97
M120
M150
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