Svetlana Velmar-Janković

Iraq has a network of highways connecting it from the inside among the Iraq provinces and to the outside neighboring countries: Iran, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. When Saddam Hussein visited the United States in the 1980s, he was impressed by the size and infrastructure of the highway system. He ordered his engineers to build highways in the American form - wide lanes, shoulders and clover leaves.

• ( M1 ) Motorway 1 . Near Kuwait Border- Baghdad- Jordan Border (Iraq)
• ( M31 ) Motorway 31 . Basra - M1 Junction (Iraq)
• ( M88 ) Motorway 88 . Route 2 junction - Syria Border (Iraq)
• ( M90 ) Motorway 90 . Erbil - Duhok (Iraq)
• ( M96 ) Motorway 96 . Jordan Border - M1 Junction (Iraq)
• ( M97 ) Motorway 96 . Baghdad - Abu Ghraib - M1 Junction (Iraq)
• ( M120 ) Motorway 120 . Erbil Ring Road (Iraq)
• ( M150 ) Motorway 150 . Erbil Ring Road (Iraq)

• Highway 1: Baghdad, Taji, Samarra, Tikrit, Mosul, Syria (Kameshli).
• Highway 2: Baghdad, Baqubah, Al Khalis, Kirkuk, Irbil, Mosul, Dohuk, Zakhu, Turkey (Silopi).
• Highway 3: Erbil to Iran (Piranshahr).
• Highway 4: Kirkuk, Sulaymaniyah, Darbandikhan, Kalar, Jalawla, As Sa'Diyah.
• Highway 5: Baqubah, Muqdadiyah, As Sa'Diyah, Khanaqin, Iran (Qasr-e Shirin).
• Highway 6: Baghdad, Al Kut, Al Amarah, Basrah.
• Highway 7: Al Kut, Ash Shatrah, Nasiriyah.
• Highway 8: Baghdad, Al Hillah, Al-Qādisiyyah, As Samawah, Nasiriyah, Basrah, Kuwait.
• Highway 9: Karbala, Al Najaf, Al-Qādisiyyah.
• Highway 10: Al Rutbah, Jordan.
• Highway 11: Baghdad, Al Fallujah, Al Ramadi, Al Rutbah, Syria.
• Highway 12: Al Ramadi, Hīt, Haditha, Al-Karābilah, Syria (Abu Kamal).

• Road 13: Khanaqin, Mandali, Badra, Jalat, Shaykh Faris
• Road 14: Ali Al-Gharbi, Jalat
• Road 15: Badra, Iran (Mehran)
• Road 16: Nasiriyah, Amarah
• Road 17: Diwaniyah, Qalat Sukkar, Amarah
• Road 18: Erbil, Suleymaniyah
• Road 19: Haqlaniyah, Bayji, Kirkuk
• Road 20: Safra, Rutba
• Road 21: Toliaha, Nukhayb
• Road 22: Karbala, Nukhayb
• Road 23: Faluja, Samarra
• Road 24: Takrit, Kirkuk
• Road 26: Basra, Umm Qasr
• Road 27: Hilla, Numaniya, Sarhad
• Road 28: Abu Sukhayr, Samawa
• Road 29: Samawa, As Salman, Basra
• Road 30: H-3 Air Base, Jordan
• Road 33: Duhok, Amedi, Barzan
• Road 34: Baghdad to Baqubah
• Road 36: Kalar to Parwez Khan
• Road 45: Kifri, Qaradagh, Sulaymaniyah
• Road 46: Arbat, Iran
• Road 47: Mosul, Syria
• Road 55: Takrit, Tuz Khurmato
• Road 70: Hilla, Najaf, Abu Sukhair
• Road 71: Abu Sukhayr, Diwaniyah
• Road 78: Soran, Sidakan
• Road 80: Kirkuk, Mosul
• Road 82: Baquba, Mandali
• Road 83: Soran, Mergasur
• Road 84: Karbala, Hilla
• Road 86: Kalar, Khanaqin
• Road 77: Zakho, Amedi
• Road 93: Batifa, Kani_Masi
• Road 94: Ranya, Warte

• Total: 45,550 kilometres (28,300 mi)
• Paved: 38,400 kilometres (23,900 mi)
• Unpaved: 7,150 kilometres (4,440 mi), 1996 est.

• Marcel Monterie, "Iraq national roads" https://sites.google.com/site/roadnumberingsystems/home/route-lists/iraq-national-roads (Archive)