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A road is an identifiable route, way or path between two or more places. Roads are typically smoothed, paved, or otherwise prepared to allow easy travel; though they need not be, and historically many roads were simply recognizable routes without any formal construction or maintenance. In urban areas, roads may pass through a city or village and be named as streets, serving a dual function as urban space easement and route. Economics and society depend heavily on efficient roads. In the European Union, 44% of all goods are moved by trucks over roads and 85% of all persons are transported by cars, buses, or coaches on roads.

Various types of road are in use around the world. Roads range in size from private driveways to the stereotypical two-lane highway to high capacity dual carriageway routes, such as freeways and motorways. The names associated with a particular type of road vary around the world, and many names are partially equivalent but not exactly equivalent to each other. As a result, the name given to a road in one country could apply to a different type of road in another country. Details for each road type are covered in the specific articles about each type of road.

Many countries generally have an organized system of national roads usually designated by a route number or letter. These designations are generally displayed along the route by means of a highway shield; each system has its own unique shield design that will allow quick identification to which system the route belongs. Some countries additionally have separate road systems coordinated and maintained by a subnational entity, such as a state or province.

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The Incense Route or the Incense Road was a series of major ancient trading routes stretching across Egypt to India through Arabia. The incense trade flourished from South Arabia to the Mediterranean between roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 2nd century CE. The Incense Route served as a channel for trading of goods such as Arabian frankincense and myrrh; Indian spices, ebony, silk and fine textiles; and East African rare woods, feathers, animal skins and gold.

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January 29 - Pinkie Road is a proposed 4 lane twinned highway connector road linking two National Highway System routes (Saskatchewan Highway 1 (the Trans Canada Highway) and Highway 11) as a part of the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative (APGCI).^[1]
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July 28 - Tim McLean was stabbed and beheaded while riding a Greyhound Canada bus about 18 miles (29 km) west of Portage La Prairie, Manitoba traveling the Trans Canada Highway.^[2]

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Interchange near Lausanne, Switzerland
Credit: (Rama)

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...that most of Petroleum Road, a privately owned asphalt road in the Golan Heights, is marked on maps as inaccessible to traffic because of poor road quality?

...that Manitoba Provincial Road 373 became famous after a band from Norway House won an award for an album named after the highway?

... that from 1945 until 1978, cars in Okinawa Prefecture drove on the right side of the road until a switch to left-hand drive as part of the 730 Conversion Plan, to match the rest of Japan?

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WikiProject Highways—principal WikiProject
- U.S. Roads—United States state highways and county roads
- U.S. Streets—United States city streets
- Australian Roads—Australian highways, principal roads, and main city streets
- Canada Roads—Canada provincial highways
- Canada Streets—Canada city streets
- WikiProject UK Roads—roads in the United Kingdom
  - London transport—roads and etc
- Paris Streets
- China Transportation—includes expressways, ring roads, Roads, national highways, etc
- Germany transportation
- Indian Roads
- Nepal transportation
- Pakistani Roads
- Scotland transport—includes road and bus transport in Scotland

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Panorama between Sax and Frümsen in the municipality of Sennwald in the Rhine Valley^{[disambiguation needed]}, looking from Kreuzberg (on the left), to the Appenzell Alps, Saxer Gap, the Stauberen, and Hoher Kasten on the right.
Credit: (Böhringer friedrich)

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