Armenia | Area code 374 | Common abbreviation ARM | Last updated 20-11-2003 | |||
Road class | Syntax explanation | Administrative subordination | Sub classes | Zones | System | Remarks |
European road | E[0-9]<3> | Europe | See Europe | |||
Asian highway | A[0-9]<1-2> | Asia | See Asia | |||
Main road | M[0-9]<1-2> | national | spider-web | |||
Regional road | H[0-9]<1-2> | national | clustering | |||
General description:
M: The M1, M2, M4 and M5 are the main roads from Yerevan. The M3 is a main north-south route from the Georgian border to Turkey. The M15 is a partial ring road around Yerevan. A: Numbers occur in clusters but there are no zones. Numbering starts north of Yerevan and generally increases further away from Yerevan. The highest known number is H52. New European road numbers and Asian highway numbers have been assigned, but these probably do not appear on signs. | ||||||
Road signs: Old Soviet signs are blue with white text (no other information available). | ||||||
History: The new system was probably introduced around 2000. For the old Soviet system, see CIS.
New European road numbers were introduced around 2000 and Asian highway numbers were defined in 1994.
The table below lists old and new numbers of various classes. In principle, a road in Armenia can have five different numbers: a new national number (M or H), a European number (E), an Asian number (A), an old Soviet number from before 1980 and a later Soviet number from after 1980 (M or A). | ||||||
Section | National | Obsolete Soviet (before 1980) | Obsolete Soviet (after 1980) | European | Asian | |
Yerevan - Giumri | M1 | 16 | A327 | - | - | |
Yerevan - Yeraskh | M2 | 15 | A325 | E117 | A69 | |
Yerevan - Hrazdan | M4 | 15 | M24 | E117 | A68 | |
Sources: Collage 2003 (national numbers), various maps and atlases (E and A numbers). |