List of roads in Nepal

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

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Administration of roads in Nepal
#GovernmentAdministrative bodyCoordination withType
1Federal government Department of Roads (under MoPIT) National Highway
2Provincial governmentTID or IDD or IDO (under MoPID) DoLI Provincial Highway
3Local governmentMunicipal government DoLI Urban/rural road
Nepal National highways map 2020-21 NATIONAL HIGHWAYS OF NEPAL 2020-21.png
Nepal National highways map 2020-21

The Economic Survey 2022-23 released by the Ministry of Finance (Nepal), shows that until mid-March of 2023, the country had total road network of national roads length 34,100 km. This included national highway and other Strategic roads [1]

E-W (Mahendra) Highway H01 at Eastern starting point Jhapa EW Highway H01 at Kakarbhitta.jpg
E-W (Mahendra) Highway H01 at Eastern starting point Jhapa

National Highway (onward 2021)

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] 621 km (385.87 mi) more added to National Highway System in 2022/23. Now the total length of the national highway is 11,799.09 km (7,331.61 mi) [3]

There were only 21 National Highways in Nepal before 2021. In 2021, 59 more National highways were announced by the government and corrected the highway numbers. [4] [2]

NATIONAL HIGHWAYS OF NEPAL 2020-21.png

List of National Highways

Strategic Road (1970-2020)

The first Nepal Road Standard introduced by the Department of roads in 1970, classified roads into 4 types. [5] In the second Nepal Road Standard introduced in 2013, the types of the roads were the same. [6]

Nepal Road Standard (1970)Nepal Road Standard (2013)
National HighwayNational Highway
Feeder RoadFeeder Road
District/Panchayat RoadDistrict Road
City Road/StreetUrban Road

SSRN 2004 published by the Department of roads in 2004 shows 12 National Highways and 51 Feeder roads in Nepal. [7] The SSRN 2017/18 shows that the number of national highways in the country has increased to 18 but the number of feeder roads has decreased. 3 more Highways added to National Highway later and more feeder road decreased. In 2021 SNH 2020/21 released by government shows all the previous feeder road either converted to new National Highways or cancelled the status of feeder roads and handed over to provincial governments.

National Highway

S#Highway NumbersNameDistanceStarting pointEnding point
1NPL H01.svg H01 Mahendra Highway 1027KakarabhittaGadda Chauki
2NPL H02.svg H02 Tribhuvan Highway 160TripuresworSirsiya border
3NPL H03.svg H03 Araniko Highway 113MaitigharKodari
4NPL H04.svg H04 Prithvi Highway 173NaubisePrithvi Chowk
5NPL H05.svg H05 Madan Ashrit Highway 36NarayanghatMugling
6NPL H06.svg H06 B.P. Koirala Highway 206Barkhe kholaBhittamod
7NPL H07.svg H07 Mechi Highway 268KechanaGharila
8NPL H08.svg H08 Koshi Highway 111RaniHile
9NPL H09.svg H09 Sagarmatha Highway 179KadmahaDiktel
10NPL H10.svg H10 Siddhartha Highway 147BelahiyaPrithvi Chowk
11NPL H11.svg H11 Rapti Highway 169AmeliyaKhaula pass
12NPL H12.svg H12 Ratna Highway 113JamuniyaBangesimal

These Highways were added to SSRN 2017/18:-

13NPL H13.svg H13 Karnali Highway 233BangeshimalJumla Khalanga
14NPL H14.svg H14 Mahakali Highway 325Mohana BridgeTinkar pass
15NPL H15.svg H15 Seti Highway 66Syaule BazarSamuha gad
16NPL H16.svg H16 Ring Road (Kathmandu) 28ManoharaSatdobato
17NPL H17.svg H17 Postal Highway 1005BhadrapurKanchanpur
18NPL H18.svg H18 Pushpalal Highway 1776Chiyo BhanjyangJhulaghat}}

3 more National Highway added to SSRN:

19NPL H19.svg H19 Sabha–Bramhadev Highway 13SabhaKanchanpur
20NPL H20.svg H20 Kathmandu–Terai Expressway 82KathmanduNijgadh
21 Kathmandu Outer Ring Road 72KathmanduKathmandu

Feeder Road

Nepal / Feeder Roads in Nepal
#Highway NumbersHighway NameLength (KM)start/end pointsNew number
1NPL F001.svg F00112.53Birtamod, ChandragadhiNPL NH04.svg NH04
2NPL F002.svg F00221.96Damak, Gauriganj
3NPL F003.svg F00317.75Bharda, Rajbiraj
4NPL F004.svg F00423.10Rupani, Kunauli
5NPL F005.svg F00526.66Chauharwa, Madarpart of NPL NH20.svg NH20
6NPL F006.svg F00629.00Nawalpur, SonbarshaNPL NH32.svg NH32
7NPL F007.svg F007 Birendra Highway 45.00Chandranigahapur, BairganiyaNPL NH36.svg NH36
8NPL F008.svg F00823.00Bardaghat, Harpur
9NPL F009.svg F00921Sunwal, Maheshpur
10NPL F010.svg F01033.00Jitpur, KhunuwaNPL NH50.svg NH50
11NPL F011.svg F01183.00Taulihawa, SandhikharkaNPL NH51.svg NH51
12NPL F012.svg F01220.00Chanauta, Krishnanagar
13NPL F013.svg F013131Ganaha Khola bridge, DarbotNPL NH53.svg NH53
14NPL F014.svg F01475.00Pyuthan, Ghorahipart of NPL NH09.svg NH09
15NPL F015.svg F01544.00Lamahi, TulsipurNPL NH53.svg NH53 , part of NPL NH09.svg NH09
16NPL F016.svg F01635.00Bhuregaun, Murtihawa
17NPL F017.svg F01734.00Junga, Bhimapur
18NPL F018.svg F01812.00Kalaiya, Birgunjpart of NPL NH05.svg NH05
19NPL F019.svg F01912.00Bhaise, Bhimphedi
20NPL F020.svg F02021.00Kunchal, Kulekhani
21NPL F021.svg F021NPL NH18.svg NH18, NPL NH42.svg NH42
22NPL F022.svg F022
23NPL F023.svg F023
24NPL F024.svg F024
25NPL F025.svg F025
26NPL F026.svg F026
27NPL F027.svg F027
28NPL F028.svg F028
29NPL F029.svg F029
30NPL F030.svg F030
31NPL F031.svg F031NPL NH31.svg NH31
32NPL F032.svg F032
33NPL F033.svg F033NPL NH23.svg NH23
34NPL F034.svg F034NPL NH43.svg NH43
35NPL F035.svg F035NPL NH44.svg NH44
36NPL F036.svg F036 Bhanubhakta Acharya Highway NPL NH25.svg NH25
37NPL F037.svg F037 Bharatpur Bypass Road 5 km
38NPL F038.svg F038 Ratna Kumar Bantawa Highway
39NPL F039.svg F039part of NPL NH05.svg NH05
40NPL F040.svg F040part of NPL NH03.svg NH03
41NPL F041.svg F041
42NPL F042.svg F042NPL NH48.svg NH48, part of NPL NH03.svg NH03
43NPL F043.svg F043
44NPL F044.svg F044part of NPL NH05.svg NH05, NPL NH52.svg NH52
45NPL F045.svg F045
46NPL F046.svg F046part of NPL NH05.svg NH05
47NPL F047.svg F047NPL NH57.svg NH57, NPL NH09.svg NH09
48NPL F048.svg F048NPL NH60.svg NH60, NPL NH03.svg NH03
49NPL F049.svg F049NPL NH64.svg NH64
50NPL F050.svg F050part of NPL NH03.svg NH03
51NPL F051.svg F051part of NPL NH03.svg NH03

Newly Proposed Feeder Roads number were from F052 to F210. By this Nepal have altogether 210 Feeder Roads in Nepal.

Nepal / Feeder Roads in Nepal
#Highway NumbersHighway NameLength (KM)start/end pointsNew number
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153 Hetauda Bypass Road
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198 Birgunj Bypass Road
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210

Provincial Highways

Bagmati Provincial Highway with National Highway Bagmati Provincial Highway with National Highway.jpg
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:

Provincial Highway Codes
#ProvinceCode
1KoshiPH-KO-001
2MadheshPH-MA-001
3BagmatiPH-BA-001
4LumbiniPH-LU-001
5GandakiPH-GA-001
6KarnaliPH-KA-001
7SudurpashchimPH-SU-001

'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:

"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. [8]

See also

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