List of roads in Nepal explained

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

Administration of roads in Nepal
	Government	Administrative body	Type
1	Federal government	Department of Roads (under MoPIT)	National Highway
2	Provincial government	TID or IDD or IDO (under MoPID)
3	Local government	Municipal government	Urban/rural road

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]

National Highway (onward 2021)

See also: List of national highways in Nepal by province. 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] 6212NaN2 more added to National Highway System in 2022/23. Now the total length of the national highway is 11799.092NaN2^[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]

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 Highway	National Highway
Feeder Road	Feeder Road
District/Panchayat Road	District Road
City Road/Street	Urban 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#	Name	Distance	Starting point	Ending point
1	Mahendra Highway	1027	Kakarabhitta	Gadda Chauki
2	Tribhuvan Highway	160	Tripureswor	Sirsiya border
3	Araniko Highway	113	Maitighar	Kodari
4	Prithvi Highway	173	Naubise	Prithvi Chowk
5	Madan Ashrit Highway	36	Narayanghat	Mugling
6	B.P. Koirala Highway	206	Barkhe khola	Bhittamod
7	Mechi Highway	268	Kechana	Gharila
8	Koshi Highway	111	Rani	Hile
9	Sagarmatha Highway	179	Kadmaha	Diktel
10	Siddhartha Highway	147	Belahiya	Prithvi Chowk
11	Rapti Highway	169	Ameliya	Khaula pass
12	Ratna Highway	113	Jamuniya	Bangesimal

These Highways were added to SSRN 2017/18:-

13	Karnali Highway	233	Bangeshimal	Jumla Khalanga
14	Mahakali Highway	325	Mohana Bridge	Tinkar pass
15	Seti Highway	66	Syaule Bazar	Samuha gad
16	Ring Road (Kathmandu)	28	Manohara	Satdobato
17	Postal Highway	1005	Bhadrapur	Kanchanpur
18	Pushpalal Highway	1776	Chiyo Bhanjyang	Jhulaghat

}|}3 more National Highway added to SSRN:

19	13	Sabha	Kanchanpur
20	82	Kathmandu	Nijgadh
21	72	Kathmandu	Kathmandu

Feeder Road

Nepal / Feeder Roads in Nepal
	Highway Numbers	Highway Name	Length (KM)	start/end points	New number
1			12.53	Birtamod, Chandragadhi
2			21.96	Damak, Gauriganj
3			17.75	Bharda, Rajbiraj
4			23.10	Rupani, Kunauli
5			26.66	Chauharwa, Madar	part of
6			29.00	Nawalpur, Sonbarsha
7		Birendra Highway	45.00	Chandranigahapur, Bairganiya
8			23.00	Bardaghat, Harpur
9			21	Sunwal, Maheshpur
10			33.00	Jitpur, Khunuwa
11			83.00	Taulihawa, Sandhikharka
12			20.00	Chanauta, Krishnanagar
13			131	Ganaha Khola bridge, Darbot
14			75.00	Pyuthan, Ghorahi	part of
15			44.00	Lamahi, Tulsipur	, part of
16			35.00	Bhuregaun, Murtihawa
17			34.00	Junga, Bhimapur
18			12.00	Kalaiya, Birgunj	part of
19			12.00	Bhaise, Bhimphedi
20			21.00	Kunchal, Kulekhani
21					,
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36		Bhanubhakta Acharya Highway
37		Bharatpur Bypass Road	5 km
38
39					part of
40					part of
41
42					, part of
43
44					part of,
45
46					part of
47					,
48					,
49
50					part of
51					part of

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 Numbers	Highway Name	Length (KM)	start/end points	New number
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
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100
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102
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110
111
112
113
114
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116
117
118
119
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121
122
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125
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127
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129
130
131
132
133
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136
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140
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142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
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
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210

Provincial Highways

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
	Province	Code
1	Koshi	PH-KO-001
2	Madhesh	PH-MA-001
3	Bagmati	PH-BA-001
4	Lumbini	PH-LU-001
5	Gandaki	PH-GA-001
6	Karnali	PH-KA-001
7	Sudurpashchim	PH-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:

Urban/Rural road of a Municipality in Bagmati Province = BUR00
Urban/Rural road of a Municipality in Koshi Province = KUR00

"00" represents road numbers e.g. BUR01, KUR05

Agriculture road

See main article: Department of Local Infrastructure. Nepal has special kind of road for agricultural areas and such roads are constructed by Department of Local Infrastructure.^[8]

References

Web site: Economy Survey 2022-23. 13 March 2024.
Web site: Statistics of National Highway [SNH 2020-21] ]. Department of Roads, Nepal . 24 March 2023.
Web site: Statistics of National Highway [SNH 2022-23] ]. 2023 . Department of roads . 20 Aug 2023 .
Web site: Existing Highways and proposed extension . Department of roads . 2024-06-21 .
Web site: Nepal Road Standard (2027). 1970 . Department of Roads. 10 Jul 2024 .
Web site: Nepal Road Standard 2070. 2013 . Department of roads. 10 Jul 2024 .
Web site: SSRN2004 . 2004 . Department of roads. 10 Jul 2024.
Web site: 2023-09-28 . ट्रयाक खुलेको आठ वर्षपछि सडक स्तरोन्नति सुरु . 2023-10-12 . Khabarhub . en.

External links

Web site: Department of Roads of Nepal.
Web site: Roads Board Nepal. https://web.archive.org/web/20091202003307/http://www.roadsboardnepal.org/index.htm . dead . 2009-12-02 .
Web site: Nepal Road Standard 2070.