Iraq has a network of highways connecting it from the inside among the Iraq provinces and to the outside neighboring countries: Iran, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. When Saddam Hussein visited the United States in the 1980s, he was impressed by the size and infrastructure of the highway system. He ordered his engineers to build highways in the American form - wide lanes, shoulders and clover leaves. Motorways numbers ( M1 ) Motorway 1 . Near Kuwait Border- Baghdad- Jordan Border (Iraq) ( 31 ) Motorway 31 . Basra- M1 Junction (Iraq) ( M88 ) Motorway 88 . Route 2 junction - Syria Border (Iraq) ( M90 ) Motorway 90 . Erbil - Duhok (Iraq) ( M120 ) Motorway 120 . Erbil Ring Road (Iraq) ( M150 ) Motorway 150 . Erbil Ring Road (Iraq) Highways numbers Highway 1: Baghdad, Taji, Samarra, Tikrit, Mosul, Syria (Kameshli). Highway 2: Baghdad, Baqubah, Al Khalis, Kirkuk, Irbil, Mosul, Dohuk, Zakhu, Turkey (Silopi). Highway 3: Erbil to Iran (Piranshahr). Highway 4: Kirkuk, Sulaymaniyah, Darbinadikhan, Jalaulah, As Sa'Diyah. Highway 5: Baqubah, Muqdadiyah, As Sa'Diyah, Khanaqin, Iran (Qasr-e Shirin). Highway 6: Baghdad, Al Kut, Al Amarah, Basrah. Highway 7: Al Kut, Ash Shatrah, Nasiriyah. Highway 8: Baghdad, Al Hillah, Al-Qādisiyyah, As Samawah, Nasiriyah, Basrah, Kuwait. Highway 9: Karbala, Al Najaf, Al-Qādisiyyah. Highway 10: Al Rutbah, Jordan. Highway 11: Baghdad, Al Fallujah, Al Ramadi, Al Rutbah, Syria. Highway 12: Al Ramadi, Hīt, Haditha, Al-Karābilah, Syria (Abu Kamal). Roads numbers Road 13: Khanaqin, Mandak, Badra, Jalat, Shaykh Faris Road 14: Ali Al-Gharbi, Jalat Road 15: Badra, Iran (Mehran) Road 16: Nasiriyah, Amarah Road 17: Diwaniyah, Qalat Sukkar, Amarah Road 18: Erbil, Suleymaniyah Road 19: Haqlaniyah, Bayji, Kirkuk Road 20: Safra, Rutba Road 21: Toliaha, Nukhayb Road 22: Karbala, Nukhayb Road 23: Faluja, Samarra Road 24: Takrit, Kirkuk Road 26: Basra, Umm Qasr Road 27: Hilla, Numaniya, Sarhad Road 28: Abu Suhayr, Samawa Road 29: Samawa, As Salman, Basra Road 30: H-3 Air Base, Jordan Road 31: Basra, North Rumaila Road 34: Baghdad to Baqubah Road 46: Arbat, Iran Road 47: Mosul, Syria Road 55: Takrit, Tuz Khurmato Road 70: Hilla, Najaf, Abu Suhair Road 71: Abu Suhayr, Diwaniyah Road 80: Kirkuk, Mosul Road 82: Baquba, Mandak Road 84: Karbala, Hilla Road 96: Numbered as Freeway 1: Jordan Junction, Jodran Road 97: Baghdad, Abu Ghurayb Statistics on roads in Iraq Total: Paved: Unpaved: , 1996 est. References