List of ring roads


Below is a list of ring roads from around the world encircling major cities.

Africa

Egypt

Ghana

Morocco

Nigeria

South Africa

Asia

China

Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, a circular motorway, Route 9, as known as New Territories Circular Road, circles the New Territories and connects all the towns to the north of New Kowloon.

India

Indonesia

Iran

Japan

Fukuoka

  • Expressway
  • * Fukuoka Expressway Circle Route

Nagoya

Osaka

Sendai Metropolitan Area

  • Expressway
  • * Gurutto Sendai

Greater Tokyo Area

Malaysia

George Town

Johor Bahru

Kuala Lumpur

Others

Nepal

Pakistan

Philippines

Metro Manila

Singapore

South Korea

Seoul

Daejeon

Gwangju

Thailand

Bangkok

Northern Thailand

  • Ayutthaya – Route 32, 347 and 356, a complete outer ring road
  • Ayutthaya – U Thong Road, a complete inner ring road, surrounding old city
  • Chiang Mai – Route 121, a complete outer ring road
  • Chiang Mai – Route 11 and 1141, a partial inner ring road
  • Phitsanulok – Route 126, a complete ring road linking routes 11, 12 and 117
  • Suphanburi – Route 357, a complete ring road linking routes 321, 322, 329 and 340.
  • Saraburi – Route 362, a complete ring road linking routes 1 and 2.

North Eastern Thailand

  • Buriram – Route 288, a complete ring road linking routes 218, 219 and 226
  • Khon Kaen – Route 230, a complete ring road linking Route 2 and Route 12
  • Roi Et – Route 232, a complete ring road linking routes 23, 214 and 215
  • Ubon Ratchathani – Route 231, a complete ring road linking routes 23, 24, 212, 217 and 226
  • Udon Thani – Route 216 'By pass Road', a complete ring road linking Route 2 with Routes 22 and 216

South Eastern Thailand

  • Chonburi – Route 361, a partial ring road linking Route 3 with routes 315 and 344

Southern Thailand

  • Surat Thani – complete ring road consisting of routes 401, 417 and 420
  • Trang – Route 419, a complete ring road linking routes 4, 403 and 404

Turkey

Most of Turkish metropolitans have beltways with motorway standard.

Vietnam

Hanoi

Ho Chi Minh City

  • Partial ring road consisting:
  • * National Route 1, northern portion
  • * Nguyen Van Linh, southern portion
  • * Vanh Dai, incomplete eastern portion

Australia

Australia

Australian Coast or nearby – Highway 1, ring road surrounds all of Australia

New South Wales

Queensland

Victoria

Western Australia

Europe

Austria

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Belgium

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

  • D0
  • Městský okruh, Prague
  • Road I/31
  • Big City Ring in Brno
  • Brno City Ring, the inner ring in Brno
  • the three old Prague rings and many rings in other cities are not special express ring roads but routes signed on common streets and roads

Denmark

  • Copenhagen City Ring

Estonia

Finland

Kehä 0, a conceptual approach to routing traffic away from the very centre of the city, to develop greater pedestrian access areas in the centre, the so-called "carless centre". Though this is the least legitimate in the sense of what is commonly thought as a ring road, merely consisting of ways to route traffic, it differs from the other ring roads in that it would consist of a fully circular network of routes around a focal point, rather than I, II and III, which are properly only semicircular, being as they are, limited by the sea on one side.

France

Germany

Greece

Athens is encircled by the system of Attiki Odos motorway with three main avenues, forming a Π around the Athens Basin. To the northern side, the main section connecting Elefsina shipyards-industrial zone with the Athens International Airport in Spata and counts about 50 km. To the western side, Aigaleo Avenue, encircling Mount Aigaleo and to the eastern side, the Hymettus Ring. As supplementary avenues there are also NATO Avenue, running across the Elefsina Basin next to Mount Aigaleo, Katehaki Avenue, connecting NE and SE suburbs of Athens aligned with Mount Hymettus and finally Varis-Koropiou Avenue, connecting the vicinity of Athens International Airport and the SE coast of Athens, near the suburb of Voula, in the back side of Mount Hymettus. To the south side, Poseidonos Avenue : Greek for "Coastal runs from Piraeus to Voula, aligned with the coast, until it meets Varis-Koropiou and then it continues to the countryside Sounio Avenue, towards Sounio and Lavrio.
The quality of the encircling system varies from motorway of high standards and fully computerised control and service to more simple two-lanes avenue, like Aigaleo Avenue. Most of the system, maybe except the mountainous parts, is a high-speed traffic system of roads. Usually the most speedy traffic is noticed on the coastal Poseidonos Avenue, thus making it need increased attention.

Hungary

Iceland

  • Route 1, which circles the entire country

Ireland

All ring roads listed are not arranged from previously existing roads.
Dublin has three generations of partial ring roads. Due to its location on the sea, there is no complete ring road as yet. with the combined South Circular Road and North Circular Road forming the oldest, and inner pair dating from the 19th century.
The M50 motorway forms the middle, most complete and most heavily trafficked ring road with an eventual plan to form a complete ring via an undersea tunnel or bridge.
The Outer Ring Road forms the newest partial ring, running along the west of the cities outer suburbs. Eventual plans are to link it to sections of the R121 road which provides a similar service in the north west of the city, with land being reserved for this.
In addition, Dublin City Council has signed two "orbital routes" consisting of existing roads, but following these requires turning at many junctions.

Italy

Netherlands

The Hague is circled by four ring roads:
  • The "Ring" is the main ring road, roughly 34 km long; It is also called the "International ring".
  • Around the city centre, there is the "CentrumRING", roughly 11 km long.

Norway

Poland

Portugal

  • VCI, inner ring road in Porto
  • CREP, outer ring road in Porto
  • Segunda Circular, inner ring road in Lisbon
  • CRIL, inner ring road of Lisbon's suburbs
  • CREL, outer ring road of Greater Lisbon

Romania

  • Centura București, national road class around Bucharest, currently upgrading to expressway standard;
  • Autostrada Centura București, a motorway-class road circling Bucharest, partially opened.
  • Sibiu bypass: The 17.5 km of motorway as a part of A1 motorway forming a partial beltway around Sibiu was fully completed on August 30, 2011.
  • Autostrada Centura Constanţa, part of A4, completed in 2011. Currently the government has plans to extend it to the border with Bulgaria, at Vama Veche.

Russia

Moscow, Russia has three beltways:
Moscow Central Ring Road is a planned road which will consist of parts of Moscow Small Ring and Moscow Big Ring. Planned length is about, it will be opened in 2015.
Inside the Moscow city limits there are three ring roads: the central Boulevard Ring, which is generally two lanes each way with narrow tree-lined parks between the carriage ways; the Garden Ring, which has at least four lanes each way and no gardens; and the Third Ring Road, which was constructed in the late 1990s and early 2000s and combined existing roads and new highways. A fourth ring, between the Third Ring and the MKAD, is planned.

Slovenia

Serbia

Spain

Madrid, Spain is served by three beltways:
  • M-30, which at a mean distance of to the Puerta del Sol has been overtaken by the city in most of its length.
  • M-40, which borders Madrid at a mean distance of, with connections to the southern metropolitan towns and projects westwards to reach Pozuelo de Alarcón for a total length of.
  • M-50, which was planned as a full ring but is not "closed" as of 2008, though projects by the Autonomous Community of Madrid to connect both ends through a tunnel are being aired. It is long and services mainly the metropolitan area at a mean distance of.
Also, the half-loop M45 runs between the M40 and the M50 at the east, where the two beltways are more separated; and there are plans to build a fourth full loop, the M60, which would be over long and encompass the whole metropolitan area of Madrid. This proliferation of orbital motorways is partially due to the traditional high radiality of the Spanish highway network, which routed most cross-country traffic through Madrid.
Other Spanish beltways include:

Sweden

  • Stockholm Ring Road
  • Malmö Inner Ring Road
  • Malmö Outer Ring Road
  • Linköping Inner Ring and Outer Ring
  • Västerås

Ukraine

Kyiv has 3 beltways:
  • Small Beltway – completed
  • Great Beltway – only west half-belt is complete, through further extension is frozen.
  • Second Great Beltway – currently under construction.
Kharkiv has one of oldest ring roads in Ukraine. It was built in 1960–1970s. The road has been maintained in preparation for UEFA Euro 2012.
Other cities that have ring roads include:

United Kingdom

North America

Canada

Alberta

British Columbia

Manitoba

New Brunswick

Newfoundland and Labrador

Nova Scotia

Ontario

Quebec

Saskatchewan

Cuba

Camagüey Province

  • Agramonte Beltway, in the Barrio Agramonte, Florida
  • Beltway Avenue, bypass around Nuevitas to Barrio Obrero
  • Esmeralda Beltway, bypass of the CN
  • North Beltway, bypass of the CC
  • South Beltway, bypass of the CC

Ciego de Avila Province

  • Morón Beltway, bypass of the 5–151
  • North Beltway, bypass of the CC
  • South Beltway, unfinished beltway south of the city of Ciego de Avila

Cienfuegos Province

  • Cienfuegos Beltway, beltway on the eastern side of the city of Cienfuegos

Guantánamo Province

  • South Beltway, beltway south of the city of Guantánamo
  • West Beltway, beltway west of the city of Guantánamo

Granma Province

  • Bayamo Beltway, west and south of the city of Bayamo
  • Camilo Cienfuegos Beltway, south-east of the city of Manzanillo

Holguín Province

  • Holguín Beltway, south of the city of Holguín, bypass of the CC

La Habana Province

  • Primer Anillo, first beltway of Havana
  • Segundo Anillo, second beltway of Havana

Las Tunas Province

  • North Beltway, bypass north of the city of Las Tunas
  • Puerto Padre Beltway, south-east of the city of Puerto Padre, bypass of the CN
  • South Beltway, bypass of the CC

Matanzas Province

  • Cárdenas Beltway, bypass of the CN
  • Matanzas Beltway, bypass of the CC
  • Autopista Sur, motorway beltway on the south of Varadero

Sancti Spíritus Province

  • Sancti Spíritus Beltway, beltway on the eastern side of the city or Sancti Spíritus

Santiago de Cuba Province

  • Santiago de Cuba Beltway, on the east and south of the city of Santiago de Cuba
  • Songo Beltway, east of the town of Alto Songo

Villa Clara Province

  • Encrucijada Beltway, bypass of the CN
  • Remedios Beltway, bypass of the CN
  • Santa Clara Beltway, beltway around the whole city of Santa Clara
  • Santo Domingo Beltway, unpaved beltway on the west of Santo Domingo
  • Vueltas Beltway, unpaved beltway on the west of San Antonio de las Vueltas

Mexico

  • Anillo Periférico, Mexico City. The beltway gained major media attention when the Mexico City mayor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, started a project to turn a southern section of the ring into a two-story highway. The second floor was finished in 2006.
  • Circuito Interior, Mexico City. The inner beltway inside Mexico City proper.
  • Libramiento Arco Norte a toll road partly under construction being built around Mexico City.
  • Periférico Manuel Gómez Morín, Guadalajara, Jalisco. The ring has a gap: it starts at the Federal Highway 44, circles around the city as a 3+3 lane highway, becomes a 2+2 lane road in the Tonalá municipality, and ends abruptly in the Federal Highway 90.
  • Macrolibramiento, Guadalajara, Jalisco. An outer beltway that bypasses the city from the Zapotlanejo expressway to the Tepic expressway with the goal of relieving the current beltway from its heavy cargo traffic.
  • Anillo Interno 210, Monterrey, Nuevo León. The beltway is almost a complete 3+3 lane highway. In clockwise it starts in the intersection with Avenida Constitución and continues until Avenida Gonzalitos – Fidel Velazquez, then Avenida Nogalar, Avenida Los Angeles, until the intersection Churubusco – Avenida Constitución. The beltway is a complete freeway except for the part from Avenida Los Angeles – Churubusco until Avenida Constitución.
  • Periférico Ecológico, Puebla, Puebla. An incomplete ringroad which passes through most of the municipalities that conform the Metropolitan Area of Puebla.
  • Tijuana-Rosarito Autopista, Tijuana, Baja California. Currently under construction, it will form a bypass around Tijuana connecting Federal Highway 2 to Federal Highway 1 in Ensenada.
  • Anillo Periférico Licenciado Manuel Berzunza, Mérida, Yucatán. The outer ring road stretches over 50 kilometers and comprises 6 lanes. It currently features 20 bridges functioning as road distributors that interconnect the city with other municipalities and highways, notably linking to Federal Highway 261 and Federal Highway 180.

United States

Alabama

Arkansas

Arizona

California

Colorado

Connecticut

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

These ring roads are all unfinished except for I-240/I-40 serving Asheville, I-840/I-85/I-73 serving Greensboro, I-440/I-40 serving Raleigh, I-485 and I-277/I-77 and Charlotte Route 4.
Other Freeway loops
Nonfreeway loops

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

Wisconsin

South America

Argentina

Brazil

Chile