Everything about European Routes totally explained
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're members of the UNECE.
In most countries, roads carry the European route designation beside national road numbers. Other countries like
Belgium and
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, while
Ireland has started to place E-route numbers on recent road schemes (2007). Other continents have similar international road networks: for example 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):
- 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.
- 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're 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.
- 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.
- 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're 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's hard to maintain good order when extending the network, and the UNECE doesn't 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. There are not
ferry connections at all these places. Usually the international ferry connections are operated by commercial companies without support or contracts with any government to operate them. This means existing lines can be cancelled.
Class A roads
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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): Ishim – 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 – Košice – 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 - Agigea … 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 - Kozani – 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 – Oporto - Lisbon - Albufeira - Castro Marim – Huelva – Seville
E03 - 470 km (294 miles): Cherbourg-Octeville – La Rochelle
E07 – 250 km (156 miles): Pau – Jaca – Zaragoza
E09 – 967 km (601 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 – Sandnes – Helleland – Flekkefjord – Lyngdal – Mandal – Kristiansand … Hirtshals – Hjørring – Nørresundby – Ålborg
E41 – 760 km (475 miles): Dortmund – Wetzlar – Aschaffenburg – Würzburg – Stuttgart – Schaffhausen – Winterthur – Zürich – Altdorf
E43 – 510 km (319 miles): Würzburg – Ulm – Lindau – Bregenz – St. Margrethen – Buchs – Chur – San Bernardino – Bellinzona
E47 – 290 km (181 miles): Helsingborg … Helsingør – Copenhagen – Køge – Vordingborg – Farø – Rødby … Puttgarden – Oldenburg – Lübeck (See also E06 below.)
E49 – 740 km (463 miles): Magdeburg – Halle – Plauen – Schönberg – Vojtanov – Cheb - Karlovy Vary – Plzeň – České Budějovice – Halámky – Vienna
E51 – 410 km (256 miles): Berlin – Leipzig – Gera – Hirschberg – Hof – Bayreuth – Nuremberg
E53 – 270 km (169 miles): Plzeň – Bayerisch Eisenstein – Deggendorf – Munich
E57 – 380 km (238 miles): Sattledt – Liezen – St. Michael – Graz – Maribor – Ljubljana
E59 – 660 km (413 miles): Prague – Jihlava – Vienna – Graz – Spielfeld – Maribor – Zagreb
E61 – 240 km (150 miles): Villach – Karavanke Tunnel – Naklo – Ljubljana – Trieste – Rijeka
E63 – 1110 km (694 miles): Sodankylä – Kemijärvi - Posio – Kuusamo – Kajaani – Iisalmi – Kuopio – Jyväskylä – Tampere – Turku
E67 – 1630 km (1019 miles): Helsinki … Tallinn – Riga – Kaunas – Warsaw – Piotrków Trybunalski – Wrocław – Kłodzko – Kudowa Zdrój – Náchod – Hradec Králové – Prague; also known as the Via Baltica
E69 – 130 km (81 miles): Nordkapp (North Cape) – Olderfjord
E71 – 970 km (606 miles): Košice – Miskolc – Budapest – Balatonaliga – Nagykanizsa – Zagreb – Karlovac – Knin – Split
E73 – 710 km (444 miles): Budapest – Szekszárd – Mohács – Osijek – Đakovo – Šamac – Zenica – Mostar – Metković
E77 – 1690 km (1056 miles): Pskov – Riga – Šiauliai – Tolpaki – Kaliningrad … Gdańsk – Elbląg – Warsaw – Radom – Kraków – Trstená – Ruzomberok – Zvolen – Budapest
E79 – 1160 km (725 miles): Miskolc – Debrecen – Berettyóújfalu – Oradea – Beiuş – Deva – Petroşani – Târgu Jiu – Craiova – Calafat … Vidin – Vraca – Botevgrad – Sofia – Blagoevgrad – Serres – Thessaloniki
E81 – 990 km (619 miles): Mukacevo – Halmeu – Satu Mare – Zalău – Cluj-Napoca – Turda – Sebeş – Sibiu – Piteşti – Bucharest - Constanţa
E83 – 250 km (156 miles): Byala – Pleven – Jablanica – Botevgrad – Sofia
E87 – 2030 km (1269 miles): Odessa – Izmail – Reni – Galaţi – Tulcea – Constanţa – Varna – Burgas – Malko Tarnovo – Dereköy – Kırklareli – Babaeski – Havsa – Keşan – Gelibolu – Ayvalık – İzmir – Selçuk – Aydın – Denizli – Acıpayam – Korkuteli – Antalya
E89 – 130 km (81 miles): Gerede – Kızılcahamam – Ankara
E91 – 170 km (106 miles): Toprakkale – İskenderun – Antakya – Yayladağ – Syrian Arab Republic
E97 – 1150 km (719 miles): Kherson – Djankoy – Novorossiysk – Sochi – Sukhumi – Poti - (missing link) - Trabzon - Gümüshane - Askale
E99 – Sanliurfa - Diyarbakir - Bitlis - Doğubeyazit - Iğdir - Dilucu - Sadarak
West-East intermediate
E02 – route number not used
E04 – 1590 km (994 miles): Helsingborg – Jönköping – Linköping – Norrköping – Södertälje – Stockholm – Uppsala – Sundsvall – Örnsköldsvik – Umeå – Luleå – Haparanda – Tornio
E06 – 3120 km (1950 miles): Trelleborg – Malmö – Helsingborg – Halmstad – Gothenburg – Oslo – Hamar – Lillehammer – Dombås – Trondheim – Stjørdal – Steinkjer – Mosjøen – Mo i Rana – Rognan – Fauske … Ballangen – Narvik – Setermoen – Alta – Olderfjord – Lakselv – Karasjok – Varangerbotn – Kirkenes
E08 – 1410 km 
