Most dangerous highway roads in the world

Yungas road (Bolivia)

1.Yungas Road (Bolivia)

The North Yungas Road (also known as Grove's Road, Coroico Road, Death Road or Road of fate. IT is a road leading from La Paz to Coroico, 56 kilometers (35 mi) northeast of La Paz in the Yungas region of Bolivia. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank christened it as the "world's most dangerous road". In 2006, one estimate stated that 200 to 300 travelers were killed yearly along the road. The road includes cross markings on many of the spots where vehicles have fallen.

he South Yungas Road connects La Paz to Chulumani, 64 kilometers (40 mi) east of La Paz, and is considered to be nearly as dangerous as the North Road.

Dalton highway (Alaska)

2.Dalton Highway (Alaska)

The James W. Dalton Highway, usually referred to as the Dalton Highway (and signed as Alaska Route 11), is a 414-mile (666 km) road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway, north of Fairbanks, and ends at Deadhorse near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay oil fields. Once called the North Slope Haul Road (a name by which it is still sometimes known), it was built as a supply road to support the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System in 1974. It is named after James Dalton, a lifelong Alaskan and an engineer who supervised construction of the Distant Early Warning Line in Alaska and, as an expert in Arctic engineering, served as a consultant in early oil exploration in northern Alaska.

Guoliang tunnel (China)

3.Guoliang Tunnel (China)

The Guoliang Tunnel is carved along the side of and through a mountain in China. The tunnel links the village of Guoliang to the outside through the Taihang Mountains which are situated in Huixian, Xinxiang, Henan Province of China.

Stelvio pass (Italy)

4.Stelvio pass (Italy)

The Stelvio Pass (Italian: Passo dello Stelvio ) is a mountain pass in northern Italy, at an elevation of 2,757 m (9,045 ft) above sea level. It is the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps, and the second highest in the Alps, just 45 m (148 ft) below France's Col de la Bonette (2,802 m (9,193 ft)).

Karakoram highway (Pakistal)

5.Karakoram highway (Pakistan)

The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is one of the highest paved international roads in the world. It connects the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China and Gilgit–Baltistan of Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, located at 36°51′00″N 75°25′40″E, at an elevation of 4,693 meters (15,397 ft).

Connecting China's Xinjiang region with Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan, the road is a popular tourist attraction. Due to its high elevation and the difficult conditions in which it was constructed, it is referred to as the Eighth Wonder of the World. The Karakoram Highway is known informally as the KKH; within Pakistan it is known officially as the N-35, while within China, it is known officially as China National Highway 314 (G314). It is also a part of the Asian Highway.

Skipper canyon ( New Zealand)

6.Skipper Canyon ( New Zealand)

Skippers Canyon is a historic and scenic gorge, some 22 kilometers in length, that is located several kilometers north of Queenstown. Today accessed from Queenstown via the same road that leads to Coronet Peak ski field, Skippers Canyon houses the Shot over River, one of New Zealand's richest gold-bearing rivers which was named by William Gilbert Rees. Rees, his wife Frances and brother-in-law Nicholas von Tunzelmann were the first European settlers in and near where Queenstown is now located. Once a busy gold mining area, Skippers Canyon was accessed by Skippers Road, which is today one of New Zealand's better known scenic roads. The main New Zealand road where rental car insurance is not honored if driven on, Skippers Road is mostly one-way, narrow and steep with sheer drops of several hundred meters. Apart from its gold mining history, Skippers Canyon was also the site where electricity was first generated at a place called Bullendale, a small former gold mining settlement some 4 hours walk from the farthest end of Skippers Road.

Sichuan-Tibbet highway ( Chiana)

7.Sichuan-Tibbet highway (Chiana)

The Sichuan-Tibet Highway is a high-elevation road that begins in Chengdu of Sichuan on the east and ends at Lhasa in Tibet on the west. The road is 2,142km long

The Sichuan-Tibet Highway, originally called the Kangding-Tibet Highway (a section of the No. 318 National Trunk Highway) takes you through vast, open landscapes with majestic peaks vaulting skyward. The plateau areas are dotted with castellated Tibetan homes and an infinite number of contentedly munching yaks. Travelers can enjoy the magnificent and changeable scenery ranging from warm spring to cold and snowing winter, which makes you intoxicated. This climate will be changing in front of you and you may think “days in heaven, but years on the earth”. The trip may take around 15 days if you you are not in a hurry. The Sichuan-Tibet Highway is also infamously known for bad driving surfaces and sharp mountain-side hairpins. Driving along single track sections in bad weather can be a great challenge to a less experienced driver.

Trollstigen ( Norway)

8.Trollstigen (Norway)

Trollstigen (English: Trolls' Path) is a serpentine mountain road in Rauma Municipality,  county, Norway.

It is part of Norwegian County Road 63 that connects the town of Åndalsnes in Rauma and the village of Valldal in Norddal Municipality. It is a popular tourist attraction due to its steep incline of 10% and eleven hairpin bends up a steep mountainside. During the top tourist season, about 2,500 vehicles pass daily. During the 2012 season, 161,421 vehicles traversed the route, compared to 155,230 vehicles during 2009.

The road is narrow with many sharp bends, and although several bends were widened during 2005 to 2012,^[5] vehicles over 12.4 meters (41 ft) long are prohibited from driving the road. During the 2011 and 2012 seasons, buses up to 13.1 meters (43 ft) were temporarily allowed as a trial. At the 700-metre (2,300 ft) plateau there is a car park and several viewing balconies overlooking the bends and the Stigfossen waterfall. Stigfossen falls 320 meters (1,050 ft) down the mountainside. The pass has an elevation of approximately 850 meters (2,790 ft).

BR-116 (Brazil)

9.BR-116 (Brazil)

BR-116 is a federal highway of Brazil. One of the most important highways in Brazil and one of its longest, the 4,385 kilometers (2,725 mi) road connects Fortaleza to Jaguarão.

BR-116 is a merciless 2,700-mile stretch of federal highway of Brazil spearing up the coast of the country. At 4,385 kilometres (2,725 mi), it’s the second longest highway of the country, running from the north of Brazil to the south, roughly parallel to the coastline. It’s the worst road in the world for the sexual exploitation of children.

The surface of the road is asphalted. It links Fortaleza in Ceará State with Jaguarão near the Uruguay border, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. It’s one of the main important highways in the country. It has the highest concentration of truckers. The BR-116 is the most active road in the world for the sexual exploitation of children. 262places along the BR-116 where children are known to be sold for sex – the equivalent of one every ten miles. The problem is ignored, and victims are found hundreds of miles outside of their home towns. Brazil itself is second only to Thailand in the number of children in prostitution – half a million are estimated to live in this way (UNICEF).

Commonwealth Avenue ( Philippines)

10.Commonwealth Avenue (Philippines)

Commonwealth Avenue (Filipino: Abenida Komonwelt), formerly known as Don Mariano Marcos Avenue (Tagalog: Abenida Don Mariano Marcos), named after the father of President Ferdinand Marcos, is a 12.4 km (7.7 mi) highway located in Quezon City, Philippines, which spans from 6 to 18 lanes and is the widest in the Philippines. It is one of the major roads in Metro Manila and is designated as part of Radial Road 7 (R-7).

Commonwealth Avenue starts from the Quezon Memorial Circle inside the Elliptical Road, and it passes through the areas of Philcoa, Tandang Sora, Balara, Batasan Hills and ends at Quirino Highway in the Novaliches area.

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