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Lahore Ring Road

road in Pakistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ6473409
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The Lahore Ring Road (Urdu: لاہور رنگ روڈ) is an 85-kilometer-long (53 mi) controlled-access, orbital highway located in Lahore, Pakistan. It links to the M-2 and M-11 motorways, and the N-5 National Highway while going around the city of Lahore.

Route

Northern Loop: Length 40 Km.

Southern Loop: Length 30.4 Km Operational, SL-4 section is proposed.

SL-1: Length 9.35 Km

SL-2: Length 13.05 Km

SL-3: Length 8 Km

SL-4: Proposed

The road encircles Lahore. Its route is from Babu Sabu to Saggian Interchange, Lahore, Niazi Chowk. From there it runs to Mehmood Booti, passing through GT road, Canal Bank Road, Harbanspura Interchange, Barki Road, Abdullah Gul Interchange, Allama Iqbal International Airport, Ghazi Road, DHA Phase V & VII, Sui Gas Society, Ferozepur Road, to Hudiara Drain (South) to Halloki, to Maraka.

An emergency lane is present on both sides of the road. It is estimated that 425,000 vehicles pass through daily. All linking roads with Lahore Ring Road were to be improved and widened.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lahore Ring Road” is road in Pakistan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lahore, Ring and Road, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 164-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009. For this dossier, Lahore, Ring and Road is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Lahore Ring Road” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.