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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).
Roads in Finland comprise 78,141 kilometres (48,555 mi) of highways, paved and gravel roads which are divided in four to five classes according to their local importance. The total length of public roads, private and forest roads and streets in Finland is about 454,000 kilometres (282,000 mi).
The following is a list of cities and towns (Finnish: kaupunki, Swedish: stad) in Finland.[a] The basic administrative unit of Finland is municipality.Since 1977, there is no legal difference between towns and municipalities, [1] and a municipality can independently decide to call itself a city or town if it considers that it meets the requirements of an urban settlement. [2]
Highways in Finland; Roads in Finland; A. Arctic Ocean Highway; B. Blue Highway (tourist route) E. European route E4; European route E12; European route E18; European ...
The Finnish national road 1 (Finnish: Valtatie 1 or Finnish: Ykköstie; Swedish: Riksväg 1) is the main route between the major cities of Helsinki and Turku in southern Finland. It runs from Munkkiniemi in Helsinki to the VI District of Turku, and is part of the European route E18. The road is a motorway for its whole length.
Blue Highway (Norwegian: Blå vegen, Swedish: Blå vägen, Finnish: Sininen tie, Russian: Голубая дорога) is an international tourist route from Norway via Sweden and Finland to Russia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The route of the road is Helsinki – Lahti – Heinola – Jyväskylä – Äänekoski – Oulu – Kemi – Rovaniemi – Sodankylä – Ivalo – Inari – Utsjoki.. At Heinola, another highway called Finnish national road 5 branches off from the road, which passes through Mikkeli, Kuopio, Kajaani and Kuusamo, and finally comes together again with Highway 4 at Sodankylä.
The Finnish national road 51 (Finnish: Kantatie 51; Swedish: Stamväg 51) is the 2nd class main route between the major cities of Helsinki and Raseborg in southern Finland. [1] It runs from Ruoholahti in Helsinki and passes through Espoo to Kirkkonummi as a motorway [ 2 ] called Länsiväylä ( Swedish : Västerleden ), where it continues to ...