Okay, my guess to this random top 10 list is: United States, China and Russia (former USSR). I’m thinking these would be the top three when ranked on number of road miles. Now the top 10 from The World Factbook 2007 (country followed by miles of roads).
- USA, 3,995,643
- India, 2,102,312
- China, 1,162,374
- Brazil, 1,088,560
- Japan, 735,982
- Canada, 647,655
- France, 594,219
- Russia, 541,214
- Australia, 503,708
- Spain, 414,014
Okay, so I got two of the top three but five other countries had more roads than Russia so my guess wasn’t too successful. I forgot all about India and who would have thought that Brazil or France had this many road miles? For the record, this assessment was reported by the CIA and it includes both paved and unpaved roads. An interesting note is that if you stretched out all the roads in the world, they would circle the earth more than 800 times at the equater.
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