international E-road network

 

The international E-road network is a network of roads in Europe, numbered E1 and up. They cross national borders and are the responsibility of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The network also reaches central Asian countries like Kazakhstan, since they are members of the UNECE.

In most countries, roads carry the European route designation beside national road numbers. Other countries like Sweden have roads with exclusive European route signage. E-roads in the United Kingdom are not signposted at all, and are not recognised by the UK authorities^{[citation needed]}, while the Republic of Ireland has only placed E-route numbers on one recent road scheme (2007). Other continents have similar international road networks: e.g. the Pan-American Highway in the Americas, and the Asian Highway Network.

Numbering system

The route numbering system, defined by UNECE since 1975, went through a major change in 1992 and is now as follows (text and layout slightly modified from the original for clarity of understanding):

1. Reference roads and intermediate roads, called Class-A roads, have two-digit numbers. Branch, link and connecting roads, called Class-B roads, have three-digit numbers.
2. In general:
   • North-south reference roads have two-digit numbers terminating in the figure 5 and increasing from west to east.
   • East-west reference roads have two-digit numbers terminating in the figure 0 and increasing from north to south.
   • Intermediate roads have two-digit odd (north-south) and two-digit even (west-east) numbers between the numbers of the reference roads between which they are located.
   • Class-B roads have three-digit numbers, the first digit being that of the nearest reference road to the north, the second digit being that of the nearest reference road to the west, and the third digit being a serial number.
3. North-south Class-A roads located eastwards of road E99 have three-digit odd numbers from 101 to 129. Other rules mentioned in paragraph 2 above apply to these roads.
4. Class-B roads located eastwards of E101 have 3-digit numbers beginning with 0, from 001 to 099.

Exceptions

In the first established and approved version, the road numbers were well ordered. Since then a number of exceptions to this principle have been allowed.

Two Class-A roads, namely E47 and E55, have been allowed to retain their pre-1992 numbers, E6 and E4 respectively, within Sweden and Norway. These exceptions were granted because the excessive expense connected with re-signing not only the long routes themselves, but also the associated road network in the area, since Sweden and Norway have integrated the E-roads into their national networks and they are signposted as any other national route. These roads maintain their new numbers from Denmark and southward, though, as are other European routes within Scandinavia.

Further exceptions are E67, going from Estonia to Poland (wrong side of E75 and E77), assigned around year 2000, simply because it was best available number for this new route, most of E63 in Finland (wrong side of E75) E8 in Finland (partly on the wrong side of E12 after a lengthening around 2002) and E82 (Spain and Portugal, wrong side of E80). These irregularities exist just because it is hard to maintain good order when extending the network, and the UNECE does not want to change road numbers unnecessarily.

Notes to the listings

In the road listings below, a hyphen ('–') indicates a land road connection between two towns/cities—the normal case—while an ellipsis (three dots, '…') denotes a stretch across water (with or without ferry connection).

Class A roads

North-South reference

• E05 – 2960 km (1850 miles): Greenock – Glasgow – Preston – Birmingham – Southampton … Le Havre – Paris – Orléans – Bordeaux – San Sebastián – Madrid – Sevilla – Algeciras
• E15 - 3590 km (2244 miles): Inverness – Perth – Edinburgh – Newcastle – London – Folkestone – Dover … Calais – Paris – Lyon – Orange – Narbonne – Girona – Barcelona – Tarragona – Castellón de la Plana – Valencia – Alicante – Murcia – Almería – Málaga – Algeciras
• E25 - 1830 km (1144 miles): Hoek van Holland – Rotterdam – Eindhoven – Maastricht – Liège – Bastogne – Arlon – Luxembourg – Metz – Saint-Avold – Strasbourg – Mulhouse – Basel – Olten – Berne – Lausanne – Geneva – Mont Blanc – Aosta – Ivrea – Vercelli – Alessandria – Genova … Bastia – Porto Vecchio – Bonifacio … Porto Torres – Sassari – Cagliari … Palermo
• E35 – 1660 km (1038 miles): Amsterdam – Utrecht – Arnhem – Emmerich – Oberhausen – Cologne – Frankfurt am Main – Heidelberg – Karlsruhe – Offenburg – Basel – Olten – Lucerne – Altdorf – San Gottardo – Bellinzona – Lugano – Chiasso – Como – Milan – Piacenza – Parma – Modena – Florence – Rome
• E45 - 4920 km (3075 miles): Karesuando - Arvidsjaur - Östersund - Mora - Säffle - Gothenburg … Frederikshavn – Aalborg – Århus – Vejle – Kolding – Frøslev – Flensburg – Hamburg – Hanover – Göttingen – Kassel – Fulda – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Munich – Rosenheim – Wörgl – Innsbruck – Brenner – Fortezza – Bolzano – Trento – Verona – Modena – Bologna – Cesena – Perugia – Fiano Romano – Naples – Salerno – Sicignano – Cosenza – Villa San Giovanni … Messina – Catania – Siracusa – Gela
• E55 - 2920 km (1825 miles): Helsingborg … Helsingør – Copenhagen – Køge – Vordingborg – Farø – Nykøbing Falster – Gedser … Rostock – Berlin – Lübbenau – Dresden – Teplice – Prague – Tábor – Linz – Salzburg – Villach – Tarvisio – Udine – Palmanova – Mestre – Ravenna – Cesena – Rimini – Fano – Ancona – Pescara – Canosa – Bari – Brindisi … Igoumenitsa – Preveza – Rhion – Patrai – Pyrgos – Kalamáta (See also E4 below.)
• E65 - 3800 km (2375 miles): Malmö – Ystad … Świnoujście – Wolin – Goleniów – Szczecin – Gorzów Wielkopolski – Świebodzin – Zielona Góra – Legnica – Jelenia Góra – Harrachov – Železný Brod – Turnov – Mladá Boleslav – Prague – Jihlava – Brno – Bratislava – Rajka – Csorna – Szombathely – Zalaegerszeg – Nagykanizsa – Letenye – Zagreb – Karlovac – Rijeka – Split – Dubrovnik – Petrovac – Podgorica – Bijelo Polje – Skopje – Kicevo – Ohrid- Bitola – Niki – Vevi – Kozani – Larissa – Domokos – Lamia – Brallos – Itea – Antirrion … Rhion – Egion – Korinthos – Tripoli – Kalamata … Kissamos – Chaniá
• E75 - 4340 km (2713 miles): Vardø – Vadsø – Varangerbotn – Utsjoki – Inari – Ivalo – Sodankylä – Rovaniemi – Kemi – Oulu – Jyväskylä – Heinola – Lahti – Helsinki … Gdańsk – Świecie – Łódź – Piotrków Trybunalski – Katowice – Žilina – Bratislava – Győr – Budapest – Szeged – Subotica - Novi Sad - Belgrade – Niš – Kumanovo – Skopje – Thessaloniki – Larissa – Lamia – Athens … Chaniá – Iraklion – Agios Nikolaos – Sitía
• E85 - 2300 km (1438 miles): Klaipėda – Kaunas – Vilnius – Lida – Slonim – Kobrin – Dubno — Ternopil' — Chernivtsi —Siret – Suceava – Roman – Urziceni – Bucharest – Giurgiu – Rousse – Byala – Veliko Tarnovo – Stara Zagora – Haskovo – Svilengrad – Ormenio – Kastanies – Didymoteicho – Alexandroupolis
• E95 - 1790 km (1119 miles): Saint Petersburg – Pskov – Gomel – Kiev – Odessa … Samsun – Merzifon
• E101 - 850 km (531 miles): Moscow – Kaluga – Bryansk – Glukhov – Kiev
• E105 - 3770 km (2356 miles): Kirkenes – Murmansk – Petrozavodsk – Saint Petersburg – Moscow – Orel – Kharkiv – Simferopol – Alushta – Yalta
• E115 - 1730 km (1081 miles): Yaroslavl – Moscow – Voronezh – Novorossiysk
• E117 - 1050 km (656 miles): Mineralnye Vody – Nalchik – Vladikavkaz – Tbilisi – Yerevan – Goris – Megri
• E119 - 2630 km (1644 miles): Moscow – Tambov – Povorino – Volgograd – Astrakhan – Makhachkala – Kuba – Baku – Alyat – Astara
• E121 - 2700 km (1688 miles): Samara – Uralsk – Atyrau – Beineu – Shetpe – Zhetybai – Fetisovo – Bekdash – Turkmenbashi – Gyzylarbat – Border of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• E123 - 2840 km (1775 miles): Chelyabinsk – Kostanai – Esil – Derzhavinsk – Arkalyk – Zhezkazgan – Kyzylorda – Shymkent – Tashkent – Ayni – Dushanbe – Nizhniy Panj
• E125 - 2600 km (1625 miles): Petropavl – Astana – Karagandy – Balkhash – Burubaytal – Almaty – Bishkek – Naryn – Torugart
• E127 - 1330 km (831 miles): Omsk – Pavlodar – Semey – Georgiyevka – Maikapshagai

West-East reference

• E10 - 880 km (550 miles): Å – Svolvær … Melbu – Sortland – Lødingen – Evenes – Narvik – Kiruna – Töre – Luleå
• E20 - 1880 km (1175 miles): Shannon – Limerick – Dublin … Liverpool – Manchester – Kingston upon Hull … Esbjerg – Copenhagen – Malmö – Helsingborg – Halmstad – Gothenburg – Örebro – Stockholm … Tallinn – Narva – Saint Petersburg
• E30 - 6050 km (3781 miles): Cork – Waterford – Wexford – Rosslare … Fishguard – Swansea – Bridgend - Cardiff – Newport – Bristol – London – Colchester – Ipswich – Felixstowe … Hoek van Holland – The Hague – Gouda – Utrecht – Amersfoort – Oldenzaal – Osnabrück – Bad Oeynhausen – Hanover – Braunschweig – Magdeburg – Berlin – Świebodzin – Poznań – Warsaw – Brest – Minsk – Smolensk – Moscow – Ryazan – Penza – Samara – Ufa – Chelyabinsk – Kurgan – Ishim – Omsk
• E40 - 8500 km (5313 miles): Calais – Bruges – Ghent – Brussels – Leuven - Liège – Aachen – Cologne – Olpe – Wetzlar – Bad Hersfeld – - Eisenach – Erfurt – Gera – Chemnitz – Dresden – Görlitz – Legnica – Wrocław – Opole – Gliwice – Zabrze - Katowice - Kraków – Przemyśl – Lviv – Rivne – Zhytomyr – Kiev – Kharkiv – Luhansk – Volgograd – Astrakhan – Atyrau – Beineu – Kungrad – Nukus – Daşoguz – Buchara – Navoi – Samarkand – Jizzakh – Tashkent – Shymkent – Zhambyl – Bishkek – Almaty – Sary-Ozek – Taldykorgan – Ucharal – Taskesken – Ayaguz – Georgiyevska – Öskemen – Ridder
• E50 - 5100 km (3188 miles): Brest – Rennes – Le Mans – Paris – Reims – Metz – Saarbrücken – Mannheim – Heilbronn – Nuremberg – Rozvadov – Plzeň – Prague – Jihlava – Brno – Trenčín – Prešov – Vyšné Nemecké – Uzhhorod – Mukacheve – Stryj – Ternopil – Khmelnytskyi – Vinnytsia – Uman – Kirovohrad – Dnipropetrovsk – Donetsk – Rostov-na-Donu – Armavir – Mineralnye Vody – Makhachkala...also known as "Via Caroli"
• E60 - 6200 km (3875 miles): Brest – Lorient – Vannes – Nantes – Angers – Tours – Orléans – Montargis – Auxerre – Beaune – Dole – Besançon – Belfort – Mulhouse – Basel – Zürich – Winterthur – St. Gallen – St. Margrethen – Bregenz – Feldkirch – Landeck – Telfs – Innsbruck – Lauterach – Feldkirch – Imst – Innsbruck – Wörgl – Rosenheim – Bad Reichenhall – Salzburg – Sattledt – Linz – Sankt Pölten – Vienna – Nickelsdorf – Mosonmagyaróvár – Budapest – Szolnok – Püspökladány – Oradea – Cluj-Napoca – Turda – Târgu Mureş – Braşov – Ploieşti – Bucharest – Urziceni – Slobozia – Hârşova – Constanţa … Poti – Samtredia – Khashuri – Tbilisi – Ganca – Evlak – Baku … Turkmenbashi – Gyzylarbat – Ashgabat – Tedjen – Mary – Chardzhu – Alat – Buchara – Karshi – Guzai – Sherobod – Termis – Dushanbe – Jirgatal – Sary Tash – Irkeshtam
• E70 - 4550 km (2813 miles): A Coruña – Bilbao – San Sebastián – Bordeaux – Clermont-Ferrand – Lyon – Chambéry – Susa – Turin – Alessandria – Tortona – Brescia – Verona – Mestre – Palmanova – Trieste – Postojna – Ljubljana – Zagreb – Slavonski Brod – Belgrade – Vršac – Timişoara – Drobeta-Turnu Severin – Craiova – Alexandria – Bucharest – Giurgiu – Rousse – Razgrad – Shumen – Varna … Samsun – Ordu – Giresun – Trabzon – Batumi – Poti
• E80 - 5600 km (3500 miles): Lisbon – Valladolid – San Sebastián – Toulouse – Nice – Genoa – Rome – Pescara … Dubrovnik – Podgorica - Priština – Niš - Sofia – Plovdiv - İstanbul – İzmit – Gerede – Amasya – Erzurum – Gürbulak – Islamic Republic of Iran
• E90 – 4770 km (2981 miles): Lisbon – Madrid – Barcelona … Mazara del Vallo – Palermo – Buonfornello – Messina … Reggio di Calabria – Metaponto – Taranto – Brindisi … Igoumenitsa – Ioannina – Thessaloniki – Alexandroupolis – Gelibolu … Lapseki – Bursa – Ankara – Adana – Nusaybin – Habur – Iraq

North-South intermediate

• E01 - 1460 km (913 miles): Larne – Belfast – Dublin – Rosslare … A Coruña – Pontevedra – Valença do Minho – Oporto - Lisbon - Vila Real de Santo António – Huelva – Seville
• E03 - 470 km (294 miles): Cherbourg-Octeville – La Rochelle
• E07 – 250 km (156 miles): Pau – Jaca – Zaragoza
• E09 – 880 km (550 miles): Orléans – Toulouse – Barcelona
• E11 – 540 km (338 miles): Vierzon – Montluçon – Clermont-Ferrand – Montpellier
• E13 – 230 km (144 miles): Doncaster – Sheffield – Nottingham – Leicester – Northampton – London
• E17 – 670 km (419 miles): Antwerpen – Beaune
• E19 – 520 km (325 miles): Amsterdam – Brussels – Paris
• E21 – 540 km (338 miles): Metz – Geneva
• E23 – 390 km (244 miles): Metz – Lausanne
• E27 – 350 km (219 miles): Belfort – Berne – Martigny – Aosta
• E29 – 290 km (181 miles): Cologne – Sarreguemines – E25 (towards Strasbourg)
• E31 – 520 km (325 miles) - Rotterdam – Ludwigshafen
• E33 – 100 km (62.5 miles): Parma – La Spezia
• E37 – 290 km (181 miles): Bremen – Cologne
• E39 – 1330 km (831 miles): Trondheim – Orkanger – Vinjeøra – Halsa – Straumsnes – Krifast – Batnfjordsøra – Molde … Vestnes – Skodje – Ålesund – Volda – Nordfjordeid … Sandane – Førde – Lavik … Instefjord – Knarvik – Bergen – Os … Stord – Sveio – Aksdal – Bokn … Rennesøy – Randaberg – Stavanger –