The longest streets in the world - a title for which several dozen applicants can compete. Intrigue adds the fact that it is very difficult to unambiguously determine what a street is and to define the selection criteria for rating participants. That is why such a section has disappeared even from the Guinness Book of Records. However, after analyzing the available information, you can make the Top 10 - a list that does not pretend to be true in the last resort, but will certainly be useful to people interested in this issue.
10. Rivadavia Avenue in Buenos Aires (Argentina) | 14.6 km
10th place Rivadavia Avenuewhose length is 14.6 kilometers. This is the longest street in Argentina located in the city of Buenos Aires. It is named after the first president of the country - Bernardino Rivadavia. As many as 83 bus routes go along this street, there are 13 metro stations on it, 106 traffic lights regulate busy traffic.
Interestingly, Revadavia Street has its own record - it has the largest number of numbered houses in the world. There are 11800 of them.
9. Moscow Avenue in Kharkov (Ukraine) | 18 km
9th place in the ranking of the longest streets in the world belongs Moscow Avenuewhich Kharkov can brag of. Its length is 18 kilometers. This street has a long history, its construction began in the XVII century. Then it was the road to Moscow, because the modern avenue was named accordingly. In the people, he was dubbed the “Alley of Giants” - a large number of large industrial enterprises were erected along it in Soviet times.
A noteworthy fact - Moskovsky Prospect is considered the longest street in Europe. He took the palm in 2008 from the Ukrainian Lenin Avenue (Zaporozhye).
8. Sofiyskaya Street in St. Petersburg (Russia) | 18.3 km
8th place - Sofiyskaya street, St. Petersburg. With its 18.3 kilometers in length, it is considered the largest in the city. According to the decree of the Government, it is planned to lengthen it, so it is quite possible that over time it will take a higher place in the ranking. At the moment, Sofiyskaya Street also has its own record - it is considered the longest in Russia among those for which the word “street” appears in the name.
7. Broadway Street in New York (USA) | 25 km
7th place among the longest streets in the world is the famous New York Broadway. It passes through the whole of Manhattan and ends in Albany - the administrative center of the state. Broadway is a favorite of tourists and locals. Life here does not freeze even for a minute, even late at night and in the early morning, the street is full of pedestrians and cars. Vibrant advertisements and posters have already become the hallmark of Broadway, which has a huge number of cultural sites, theaters alone - more than 40.
Broadway is the oldest in New York. The name was given to her back in those days when the territory of Manhattan belonged to the Netherlands. The British did not begin to change it, they only translated it into their own language. So the “broad path” remained with them.
6. Dinmukhamed Kunaev Street in Tekeli (Kazakhstan) | 35 km
On the 6th place among the longest Dinmukhamed Kunaev street. It is located in Kazakhstan in the city of Tekeli. Despite the fact that only a little more than 20 thousand people live in this settlement, a street named after a prominent Soviet statesman stretches for 35 kilometers.
5. Second Longitudinal Highway in Volgograd (Russia) | 50 km
Length Second Longitudinal Line in Volgograd is 50 kilometers. This allows her to open the top five of the longest streets in the world. The construction of the highway ended in the 70s of the XX century. It owes its name to the fact that it connects the most distant parts of Volgograd, while passing along the city.
It is interesting that the street does not have official status, its different sections have their own names. In total, along its length, 16 avenues and streets can be counted. If not for this fact, it was the Second Longitudinal Highway that would be the longest in Russia.
4. MKAD in Moscow (Russia) | 109 km
4 place belongs Moscow Ring RoadShe is MKAD. This street with a length of 109 kilometers in the early 1980s was a kind of border of Moscow, but since then the city has already grown significantly, and the road itself has become part of it, which gives it the right to appear in the ranking of the longest streets in the world.
MKAD was born in 1962. This would have happened much earlier, because the construction project was ready back in 1940. But the Great Patriotic War confused plans. Since then, the street has undergone a series of reconstructions. In its modern form, it is a futuristic interchange and an endless stream of cars that rush along ten lanes in both directions.
3. Primorsky highway in St. Petersburg (Russia) | 170 km
Primorskoye Shosse is another street of St. Petersburg that is included in the ranking of the longest in the world and took 3rd place. The length of the highway is 170 kilometers, it is the longest in the city, despite the fact that it was built in the 60s of the XX century. Then separate streets and sections of the route were tied together.
Along the Primorsky highway you can see a large number of wooden and stone cottages erected at the end of the XIX century. Many of them belonged to famous people. For example, the estate of Repin or the house of the composer Shostakovich. And this is not surprising, because the local landscapes simply captivate the eye.
2. Sukhumvit Street in Bangkok (Thailand) | 491 km
2nd place among the longest streets in the world is Sukhumvit. It begins in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. Further, over 491 kilometers, the highway crosses many provinces and cities, ending in Trat, the capital of the province of the same name. The street got its name in honor of Phra Bisal Sukhumvit - the head of the road department.
Sukhumvit is the main shopping street in Bangkok. Accordingly, it is difficult to find a more lively place. Here is an innumerable variety of shops, hotels for every taste and budget, cafes and restaurants. After sunset, life does not stop. Night clubs, go-go bars, massage parlors open their doors. Sukhumvit in Bangkok resembles a bright hive. At the same time, a walk along this street will give an idea of what a huge contrast exists in the country between the wealth and poverty of poor areas.
Sukhumvit is a kind of tourist route around Thailand that you can’t stray from.
1. Young Street in Toronto (Canada) | 1896 km
In first place in the ranking is young street. It is located in Canada in the city of Toronto. Its length is truly a record. It is 1896 kilometers! Of course, Toronto alone is not limited to the street; here, in the very center, by Lake Ontario, it is just beginning. After dividing the city in half, Young Street rushes to the north, near the city of Cochrane, then turns to the west and after many kilometers rests on the border with the state of Minnesota.
Historians claim that most of Young Street follows the old Native American trail along which the European discoverers once settled. In 1793, the owners of nearby lands were ordered to clear the path so that it could be passed. In those same years, the street was named after Sir George Young, Minister of England and old friend John Simcoe, who was the founder of both Toronto and Young Street.
Modern Young Street is the pride of Canada, which is known around the world.