page_title: Highway systems by country
section_title: India
hierarchical_section_title: Highway systems by country / India
caption_attribution_description: English: National Highway 7
context_section_description: National Highway (India) (131,347 kilometres (81,615 mi)), 
  In India, 'Highway' refers to one of the many National Highways and State Highways that run up to a total length of over 300,000 km consisting mostly of two-lane paved roads, changing into higher lanes mostly around cities. National Highways are designated as NH followed by the number.
  As of 2009, the major cities in India – Ahmedabad, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, and Delhi – are connected by the Golden Quadrilateral or North-South and East-West Corridor, that consists of 4 to 6 laned roads. Other major cities are connected to it by the National Highways.
  An expressway refers to any access controlled road with grade-separated intersections and make up a very small portion of India's highway network, at about 1454.4 km in length. Expressways are separate from the highway network, except for the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, which is part of NH 8. Agra-Lucknow Expressway is the longest expressway more than 300 km in India after its inauguration on 21 November 2016 replacing Yamuna Expressway 165 km, cost ₹150 billion (US$2.2 billion).
caption: National Highway 7 (India) (longest Highway of India), India.
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