Incredible map reveals the roads of the WORLD trends now
From the Great St Bernard Pass in Italy to Scotland's North Coast 500, there's nothing quite like hitting the open road for an epic road trip.
But have you ever wondered just how many roads there are across our entire planet?
At least 13 million miles (21 million kilometres) of roads cover the globe, ranging from major motorways to rural drives.
To help visualise just how much land these roads cover, Adam Symington from PythonMaps created an incredible map for Visual Capitalist, showing the roads of the world, by continent.
Amazingly, the map reveals that more than 14 per cent of the roads can be found in the US, while 1.24 per cent are in Britain.
To help visualise just how much land roads cover, Adam Symington from PythonMaps created an incredible map for Visual Capitalist, showing the roads of the world, by continent
To create the map, Mr Symington used the Global Roads Inventory Project, which includes data from governments, research institutes, NGOs, and crowd-sourcing initiatives
To create the map, Mr Symington used the Global Roads Inventory Project, which includes data from governments, research institutes, NGOs, and crowd-sourcing initiatives.
Roads were put into one of four categories and colour-coded accordingly.
Main Roads (multi-lane highways) are white on the map, while Secondary Roads (paved, high-traffic roads) are yellow.
Meanwhile, tertiary roads (paved or unpaved residential roads) and local roads are labelled as red on the map.
'This classification allowed for examining relationships between road infrastructure, development, wealth, and population distribution,' Visual Capitalist explained.
The data reveals that, of the 13 million miles (21 million kilometres) of roads worldwide, 1.86 million miles (3 million kilometres) are in the US.
This is nearly double that of China (one million miles/1.7 million kilometres), and three times that of India (600,000 miles/one
