# Boulevard

A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees, or in parts of North America, any urban highway or wide road in a commercial district.
Boulevards were originally circumferential roads following the line of former city walls.
In North American usage, boulevards may be wide, multi-lane thoroughfares divided with only a central median.

## Etymology

The word boulevard is borrowed from French. In France, it originally meant the flat surface of a rampart, and later a promenade taking the place of a demolished fortification. It is a borrowing from the Dutch word bolwerk 'bulwark'.

## Notable examples
### Asia
#### Azerbaijan

* Baku Boulevard

#### Cambodia

* Norodom Boulevard
* Monivong Boulevard
* Sihanouk Boulevard

#### India

* M G Road
* Anna Salai
* Indira Gandhi Sarani
* Marine Drive
* Krishnaraja Boulevard
* Rajpath
* Necklace Road
* Mahatma Gandhi Road
* Foreshore Road

#### Indonesia

* Jalan Jenderal Sudirman
* Jalan M.H. Thamrin
* Jalan Jenderal Gatot Subroto
* Jalan H.R. Rasuna Said
* Jalan Gajah Mada/Jalan Hayam Wuruk
* Jalan Prof. Dr. Satrio

#### Vietnam

* Thang Long Boulevard

#### Iran

* Keshavarz Boulevard

#### Philippines

* Roxas Boulevard
* Shaw Boulevard
* España Boulevard
* Quezon Boulevard
* Aurora Boulevard
* Osmeña Boulevard
* Jalan Jenderal Sudirman in Jakarta
* Keshavarz Boulevard of Tehran in mid 1970s
* Roxas Boulevard in Manila
* Baku Boulevard

### Australia and Oceania
#### Australia

* St Kilda Road, Melbourne
* Royal Parade, Melbourne
* Victoria Parade, Melbourne
* Flemington Road, Melbourne
* Mount Alexander Road, Melbourne
* The Boulevard, Perth

#### New Zealand

* The Four Avenues, Christchurch
* Anzac Avenue, Dunedin
* Marine Parade, Napier
* St Kilda Road, Melbourne
* Royal Parade, Melbourne
* Marine Parade, Napier
* Bealey Avenue, one of Christchurch's Four Avenues

### Europe
#### Austria

* Vienna Ring Road

#### Denmark

Boulevards in Copenhagen:
* Nørre Voldgade
* H. C. Andersens Boulevard
* Vesterbrogade
* Sønder Boulevard
* Dalgas Boulevard
* Strandboulevarden
* Frederiksberg Allé

#### France

* Boulevard Beaumarchais
* Boulevard du Temple
* Boulevard Montmartre
* Boulevard des Italiens
* Boulevard des Capucines
* Boulevard de la Madeleine

#### Germany

* Unter den Linden, Berlin
* Kurfürstendamm, Berlin
* Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin
* Boulevard der Stars [de], Berlin
* Königsallee, Düsseldorf
* Goerdelerring, Leipzig
* Brienner Straße, Munich
* Leopoldstraße, Munich
* Maximilianstraße, Munich
* Prinzregentenstraße, Munich

#### Hungary

* Little Boulevard, Budapest
* Grand Boulevard, Budapest
* Hungária Boulevard, Budapest

#### Ireland

* O'Connell Street, Dublin

#### Italy

* Viali di Circonvallazione, Florence
* Foro Buonaparte [it], Milan
* Via Merulana, Rome

#### Netherlands

* Lange Voorhout, The Hague

#### Spain

* Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Barcelona
* Avenida de la Granvia de Hospitalet [es], Barcelona
* Avinguda Diagonal, Barcelona
* Alameda Principal, Málaga

#### Portugal

* Avenida da Liberdade, Lisbon

#### Russia

* Boulevard Ring, Moscow
** Tverskoy Boulevard
* Garden Ring, Moscow
* Boulevard Haussmann in Paris
* Combino Supra at the Grand Boulevard in Budapest
* Foro Buonaparte [it] in Milan
* Avinguda Diagonal in Barcelona
* Clean Ponds in the wide median green of Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow

### North America
#### Canada

* Lake Shore Boulevard, Toronto
* Pie-IX Boulevard, Montreal
* King George Boulevard, Surrey

#### Mexico

* Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City

#### United States

* Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn
* Broadway, Manhattan
* West Side Highway, Manhattan
* FDR Drive, Manhattan (future project)
* Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles
* Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles
* Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
* Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
* Chicago Boulevard System
* Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia
* Roosevelt Boulevard, Philadelphia
* Southern Boulevard Park, Philadelphia
* Boulevard, Atlanta
* Park Avenue, New York City
* Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas
* Ohio River Boulevard, Pittsburgh
* Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma
* Queens Boulevard in New York City
* Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia
* North Kedzie Boulevard (3200W) at West Palmer Square (2200N) in Chicago

### South America
#### Argentina

* Avenida 9 de Julio, Buenos Aires

#### Uruguay

* Artigas Boulevard, Montevideo