A16 autoroute

The **A16**, also called _L'Européenne_ (**The European**) in French, is an autoroute (motorway) in France. It goes between Paris and the border with Belgium near Ghyvelde. It goes through Amiens, Calais and Dunkirk. It is part of the European route E40. The autoroute is about  long in total.

## Exits and junctions

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|Junction number & name|Northbound exits|Southbound exits|
|8|RN1, RN104, RD909, RD78 Montsoult,|RN1, RN104, Attainville, Moisselles, RD301, RD9,|
||RD 64E, Presles|Northbound Exit only|
|10|RN1, RN184, Presles|RN1, RN184|
||RD 922, RN1, L'Île-Adam, Mours, Beaumont-sur-Oise|RD 922, RN1, L'Île-Adam, Mours, Beaumont-sur-Oise|
|||RD 924, Persan, Chambly|
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||RD105, Méru|RD105, Méru|
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|**Beauveais sud**|RN1, Beauvais|RN1, Beauvais|
|15 **Beauvais**|RN31, Beauvais|RN31, Beauvais|
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|16|RD930, Breteuil, Hardivillers-en-Vexin|RD930, Breteuil, Hardivillers-en-Vexin|
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|17|A29|A29|
||RN29, Amiens, Salouël|RN29, Amiens, Salouël|
|28.1|A29|A29|
||Amiens|Amiens|
||RN1, Amiens|RN1, Amiens|
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||RN1, Ville-le-Marclet|RN1, Ville-le-Marclet|
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|**Abbeville est**|RD925, Abbeville|RD925, Abbeville|
|23 **Abbeville nord**|A28|A28|
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|**Côte Picarde**|RN1, RD32 Forest-Montiers, Nouvion|RN1, RD32 Forest-Montiers, Nouvion|
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||RD303 Berck-Plage|RD303 Berck-Plage|
||RN39, Le Touquet, Étaples|RN39, Le Touquet, Étaples|
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||RD308, Neufchâtel-Hardelot|RD308, Neufchâtel-Hardelot|
|**Boulogne sud**|RN1, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Hesdin-l'Abbé, Isques|RN1, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Hesdin-l'Abbé, Isques|
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|**Boulogne ports**|RN1, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Outreau, Le Portel|RN1, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Outreau, Le Portel|
||RD341, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Saint-Martin-Boulogne||
|**Boulogne est**|RN42, Boulogne-sur-Mer|RN42, Boulogne-sur-Mer|
|**Boulogne nord**|Boulogne-sur-Mer|Boulogne-sur-Mer|
||RD940, Wimereux, Wimille|RD940, Wimereux, Wimille|
|||Wacquinghen|
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|35|RD241, Marquise||
||RD191, Marquise|RD191, Marquise|
|37|Saint-Inglevert||
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|||Saint-Inglevert|
||RD243, Bonningues-lès-Calais|RD243, Bonningues-lès-Calais|
||RD215, Peuplingues, Fréthun|RD215, Peuplingues, Fréthun|
||Coquelles, Sangatte|Coquelles, Sangatte|
|**Tunnel**|Channel Tunnel|Channel Tunnel|
|**Calais centre**|RD305, Calais|RD305, Calais|
|**Calais st-pierre**|Calais|Calais|
||Entrance only||
||RN43, Calais|RN43, Calais|
|47|A26|A26|
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||RD247, Marck|RD247, Marck|
||Marck|Marck|
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||RD219, Nouvelle-Eglise|RD219, Nouvelle-Eglise|
||RD218, Saint-Folquin, Gravelines|RD218, Saint-Folquin|
||RD11, Saint-Georges-sur-l'Aa|RD11, Bourbourg Gravelines|
||RN316, Loon-Plage Dunkirk Port/Car Ferry|RD300, Bourbourg St. Omer, Port/Car Ferry|
||RD131, Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk-Ouest|RD131, Spycker|
||No northbound exit|Polyclinique de Grande-Synthe|
||Grande-Synthe Centre|Grande-Synthe Centre|
||RD625, RN225 Lille, Grande-Synthe|RD625, RN225 Lille|
||RD2020V Petite-Synthe, Saint-Pol-Sur-Mer|RD2020V, Petite-Synthe, Sainte-Pol-Sur-Mer|
||No northbound exit|RD202, Dunkirk Centre|
||RD916, Dunkirk Centre, Cappelle-La-Grande|RD916, Dunkirk Centre, Cappelle-La-Grande|
||Dunkirk, Coudekerque-Branche|Dunkirk  Coudekerque-Branche|
||RD635, Dunkirk-Est|RD635, Dunkirk-Est|
||RD4, Leffrinckoucke, Teteghem|RD4, Leffrinckoucke, Teteghem|
||No northbound exit|RD79, Leffrinckoucke, Uxem|
||RD947/947a, Bray-Dunes , Ghyvelde, Les Moeres|RD947/947a, Bray-Dunes, Les Moeres|
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## Infobox (road)

- **country**: FRA
- **type**: A
- **route**: 16
- **alternate name**: L'Européenne
- **map**: France A16.svg
- **length km**: 319
- **established**: 1991
- **direction a**: South
- **terminus a**: Presles, Val-d'Oise, Presles
- **direction b**: North
- **terminus b**: Ghyvelde
- **cities**: Amiens, Abbeville, Calais, Dunkerque