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Highways in Finland

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Highways in Finland
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Highways in Finland, or Main roads, comprise the highest categories of roads in Finland:

  • Main roads Class I – Finnish: valtatiet; Swedish: riksvägar – numbered 1–39, between major cities
  • Main roads Class II – Finnish: kantatiet; Swedish: stamvägar – numbered 40–99, between regional centers

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Map of highways in Finland. Class I in red, Class II in yellow.

Network map

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Interactive map of highways of Finland

Overview

Highways numbered from 1 to 7 radiate from the capital Helsinki (Highways 2, 5 and 6 diverge from 1, 4 and 7, respectively), while highways 8 to 10 radiate from Turku on the south-western coast of Finland. Highways 11 and 12 originate in Tampere. The rest of the highways start from other major cities.

Sections of highways between major cities have often been upgraded to motorways, for example between Helsinki and Tampere. Since Finland is a large and sparsely populated country, there is no reason to upgrade all highways to motorways.

The motorway network totals 926 kilometres (575 mi). In addition to that, there are 124 kilometres (77 mi) of motortrafficways, which are reserved only for motor traffic.[1]

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List of current highways

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Class I main roads

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Map of Finnish motorways
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Valtatie 1 near Halikko
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Large highway junction in Tampere
Helsinki − Turku
Vihti (1 km)
VantaaTampere - Ylöjärvi
Helsingby (Korsholm) − Vaasa
HelsinkiHeinola
VaajakoskiJyväskyläVehniä (Laukaa)
LiminkaOuluHaukipudas
Marostenmäki (Simo) − KemiKeminmaa (20,9 km)
Lusi, Heinola (3 km)
Vehmasmäki − Kuopio
Kuopio − Siilinjärvi
Mansikkala − Kaukopää (Imatra)
Reijola − Käpykangas (Joensuu) (10,8 km)
HelsinkiKotkaVaalimaa[2]
TurkuNousiainen
KorsholmVaasa (shared with valtatie 3)
TurkuLieto
ViialaTampere
Kuopio − Siilinjärvi (part of Valtatie 5)
Ylämylly (Liperi) − Reijola (Joensuu) (21 km)
TampereNokia
Lohjanharju − Lohja (part of Valtatie 1)
TornioKeminmaa (World's northernmost motorway)

Class II main roads

KäpyläHyrylä
Vuoksenniska (part of Valtatie 8)

Former highway alignments

The former routes of the following highways differ significantly from the current ones, or have been completely abolished.

Class I roads

Class II roads

  • Kantatie 42: RaumaHuittinen; became a portion of Valtatie 12 in 1996
  • Kantatie 59: LusiKanavuori; became a portion of Valtatie 4 in 1996
  • Kantatie 60: YlöjärviAlasjärvi; was main road 45 before 1996, became portions of Valtatie 3 and Valtatie 9 in 2011
  • Kantatie 61: Viipuri (now Vyborg) – Lahdenpohja; abandoned after WWII when Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union
  • Kantatie 62: Viipuri (now Vyborg) – Metsäpirtti (now Zaporozhskoye); abandoned after WWII when Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union
  • Kantatie 63: Viipuri (now Vyborg) – Kyyrölä (now Krasnoselskoye) – Kivennava – Terijoki (now Zelenogorsk); abandoned after WWII when Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union
  • Kantatie 64: Viipuri (now Vyborg) – Kolvisto – Terijoki (now Zelenogorsk); abandoned after WWII when Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union
  • Kantatie 64: YlistaroSeinäjokiJalasjärvi; became portions of national highways 3 and 19 in 1996
  • Kantatie 70: JoensuuVarkaus; became a portion of Valtatie 23 at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s
  • Kantatie 70: OnkamoNiirala; formerly a portion of Valtatie 18 (later road 490), became a portion of Valkatie 9 in 2010
  • Kantatie 85: KokkolaKajaani; redesignated as Valtatie 28 in 1996
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Rings

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Ring I (Kehä I) in Pukinmäki, a northern district of Helsinki

Highways in Åland

See also

Notes

  1. The current road section between Klaukkala and Loppi is now known as regional road 132.

References

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