World’s longest national road in Australia is 14,500 km long

Highway 1, Australia. Image Credit: Tony Bowden/Wikipedia Australia has the world's longest national highway, which is a marvelous engineering example known simply as ‘Highway 1.’ Spanning approximately 14,500 kilometres, this massive highway covers around the entire mainland continent like a belt, acting as an important transport base that connects every state capital city from Sydney to Perth and Darwin.The Pan-American Highway covers more total distance, but it has the roadless Darien Gap in between, which makes the Highway 1 in Australia as the ‘longest uninterrupted national route’ on Earth. This looping road is not a single highway, but a sophisticated network of connected sealed roads that runs along the vast coastline. It serves as the bloodline for the nation’s commerce, tourism, and travel, by providing a continuous path through tropical rainforests, desolate deserts, and bustling metropolitan centres, which makes the vast Australian continent accessible to everyone.How the idea of National highway 1 first came together in AustraliaAccording to historical records from Ozroads, Highway 1 was officially established in 1955 as part of the National Route Numbering initiative....