Egypt | Area code 20 | Common abbreviation ET | Last updated 10-12-2003 | |||
| Road class | Syntax explanation | Administrative subordination | Sub classes | Zones | System | Remarks |
| Trans East African Highway | [1-9] | East Africa | sequential | |||
| National road | [0-9]<2-3> | national | 0[1-6] | spider-web | ||
| [1-5][0-9] | First digit corresponding to 0x | |||||
| 3-d | ||||||
| General description: | ||||||
| The Trans East African Highway is probably intended as a system comparable to European roads, Asian highways and Central American highways. There are only a few routes and these probably do not appear on signs anywhere. Too little information is known to describe this system accuractely. | ||||||
| Roads 01-04 are the main routes from Cairo: | ||||||
| 01 | Cairo - Tanta - Alexandria - Libya | |||||
| 02 | Cairo - Aswan - Sudan | |||||
| 03 | Cairo - Taba | |||||
| 04 | Cairo - Ismailiya - Port Said | |||||
| Route 05 links Tanta and Port Said and 06 is the Cairo ring road. Other 2- and 3-d numbers begin with 1-5. Zone x consists of all numbers of the form 0x, x[0-9] and x[0-9]<2>. | ||||||
| Road signs: blue with white text | ||||||
| History: The current system was introduced in the 1990's. Formerly there was a system with 1- and 2-digit numbers with three sub classes: 1-d, multiples of 11 (i.e. two of the same digits) and other 2-d numbers. | ||||||
| Sources and links: various maps and atlases
Egyptian roads by Mark Baker | ||||||