page_title: Bahia
section_title: Highways
hierarchical_section_title: Bahia / Infrastructure / Highways
caption_attribution_description: BR-101-BA - Km 444 - Marco Quilométrico
context_page_description: Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast. It is the 4th-largest Brazilian state by population and the 5th-largest by area. Bahia's capital is the city of Salvador, located on a spit of land separating the Bay of All Saints from the Atlantic. Once a monarchial stronghold dominated by agricultural, slaving, and ranching interests, Bahia is now a local manufacturing center whose last four elections have been dominated by the Workers' Party. The state is home to 7% of the Brazilian population but produces only 4.2% of the country's GDP.
context_section_description: The state has its transportation based on highways, with few options in other sectors. The main highways in the state are all from the Federal Government:
  BR-101 – It borders the state coast, connecting it with the country's richest region (Southeast) and with the rest of the Northeast. It passes through the cocoa producing area of the state, in the cities of Itabuna and Ilhéus, reaching the capital Salvador and from there to Aracaju, capital of Sergipe.
  BR-116 – also crosses the state from north to south, parallel to BR 101 but passing further inland. It cuts through some of the important cities of the state, such as Vitória da Conquista, Jequié, Feira de Santana and Euclides da Cunha, going towards the interior of Pernambuco and Fortaleza, capital of Ceará.
  BR-242 – the highway cuts the state in half in an east-west direction, connecting Salvador to Brasília, the country's capital. It passes through important cities like Lençóis, Barreiras and Luís Eduardo Magalhães.
  BR-407 – together with BR-324, the highway connects the region of Bahia, which is the largest producer of fruit and the largest breeder of sheep and goats, in the cities of Juazeiro and Casa Nova, to Feira de Santana, Salvador and southeastern Brazil. The BR-235 borders the North of the state, connecting these same regions to the coast of Bahia.
  BR-110 – crossing the interior of the Northeast Region, this highway connects Salvador with the hydroelectric plant of Paulo Afonso and reaches Mossoró, in Rio Grande do Norte
  Also noteworthy is the BR-030, which crosses the south of Bahia in an east-west direction.
caption: BR-101 in Ubaitaba
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