List of ring roads


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

Africa

Egypt

Afghanistan

China

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

Fukuoka

George Town

Metro Manila

Bangkok

Seoul

Ho Chi Minh City

Australia

Australian Coast or nearby - A1, ring road surrounds all of Australia

New South Wales

Austria

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

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

The Hague is circled by four ring roads:
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.
, Spain is served by three beltways:
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:
Most of Turkish metropolitans have beltways with motorway standard.
has 3 beltways:
Kharkiv has one of oldest ring road 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:
  1. Birmingham Box orbital motorway
  2. outer ring road
  3. intermediate ring road, Middleway;
  4. former inner ring road reduced; now two through routes;
  1. Leeds Outer Ring Road, M621, M1, M62;
  2. Leeds Inner Ring Road
  1. Leicester W/N 1st Orbital M1/A46 ;
  2. Leicester Ring Road;
  3. Leicester Central Ring
  1. London Orbital Motorway or M25 motorway ;
  2. North Circular and South Circular;
  3. London Ring Road
  1. M60 Orbital Motorway; Created by the amalgamation and renumbering of several existing motorways and some new build to create a complete loop around the city of Manchester and seven neighbouring Metropolitan Boroughs to form one of the UK's busiest stretches of road.
  2. Manchester Inner Ring Road; The Inner Ring Road runs around the city centres of Manchester and Salford. To the south one third is elevated motorway, with the remainder being at-grade urban clear way.
  1. Sheffield Outer Ring Road;
  2. Sheffield Inner Ring Road

Canada

Alberta

Avenue between Colonia Condesa and Colonia San Miguel Chapultepec, looking east in Mexico City.

Alabama

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

Argentina