National roads (
Swedish: riksväg; literally: road of the
rike/realm) in
Sweden have
road numbers from 1 through 99. The national roads are usually of high quality and sometimes pass through several
counties. Roads with lower numbers are in southern Sweden, and roads with higher numbers are in northern Sweden. There are many cases where two or more routes in this system share the same physical road for a considerable distance, giving the country several kilometers of double-numbered road.
The network of national roads covers all of Sweden. In 2015, the total length of all national roads (excluding
European routes) was 8,900 km (5,500 mi).[1] The only county that does not have a riksväg is
Gotland County. On Gotland and the adjacent island of Öland, the main roads are instead known as
county road (länsväg). The national roads are
public roads owned by the
Government of Sweden and administered by the
Swedish Transport Administration. They get a high priority for
snow plowing during the winter.
The roads' number signs are rectangular with a blue background, white numbers, and a white border.
These are the Swedish national roads that existed before the large restructuring that happened when the
European routes were implemented in 1962 in Sweden.