European route E22
European road route from Wales to Russia
European route E22 is one of the longest European routes. It has a length of about 5,320 km (3,310 mi). Many of the E-roads have been extended into Asia since the year 2000; the E22 was extended on 24 June 2002.
Route
United Kingdom
Port of Holyhead (53.3094°N 4.6289°W / 53.3094; -4.6289)
A55: Holyhead → Ewloe
Ewloe Interchange (53.18752°N 3.06427°W / 53.18752; -3.06427)
A494: Hawarden → Shotton
Dunkirk Roundabout (53.24527°N 2.93714°W / 53.24527; -2.93714)
M56: Ellesmere Port → Runcorn → Warrington
Lymm Interchange (53.3525°N 2.5029°W / 53.3525; -2.5029)
M6: Warrington(Concurrency with E5)
Croft Interchange (53.426°N 2.5561°W / 53.426; -2.5561)(Start of concurrency with E20)
M62: Warrington → Irlam
Eccles Interchange (53.48761°N 2.37666°W / 53.48761; -2.37666)
M60: Salford → Manchester
Simister Island (53.54978°N 2.26054°W / 53.54978; -2.26054)
M62: Rochdale → Huddersfield → Leeds → Normanton → Castleford → Pontefract( E15 / A1(M): Pontefract (53.711174°N 1.290832°W / 53.711174; -1.290832))
Langham Interchange (53.6844°N 0.9693°W / 53.6844; -0.9693)(End of concurrency with E20)
M18
North Ings Interchange (53.5915°N 0.9872°W / 53.5915; -0.9872)
M180: Scunthorpe
Barnetby Top (53.58556°N 0.41392°W / 53.58556; -0.41392)
A180
Brocklesby Interchange (53.61415°N 0.28289°W / 53.61415; -0.28289)
A160
Port of Immingham (53.62718°N 0.19097°W / 53.62718; -0.19097)
Netherlands
Amsterdam (52°22′N 4°54′E)
Knooppunt De Nieuwe Meer (52.33867°N 4.84153°E / 52.33867; 4.84153)( E19 / A 4 / A 10)
A 10: Amsterdam
Coenplein (52.4231°N 4.876°E / 52.4231; 4.876)( E35 / A 10)
A 8
Knooppunt Zaandam (52.4556°N 4.8415°E / 52.4556; 4.8415)
A 7: Zaanstad → Purmerend → Hoorn
Folsgare (53.04109°N 5.61029°E / 53.04109; 5.61029)
N 7: Sneek
Sneek (53.017°N 5.6842°E / 53.017; 5.6842)
A 7: Heerenveen → Drachten → Leek
Groningen-West (53.1966°N 6.5403°E / 53.1966; 6.5403)
N 7: Groningen( E232 / A 28 (53.20325°N 6.56469°E / 53.20325; 6.56469))
Westerbroek (53.20416°N 6.63233°E / 53.20416; 6.63233)
A 7: Hoogezand → Winschoten
Bad Nieuweschans (53°10′50″N 7°12′26″E)
Germany
Bunde (53°11′N 7°16′E)
A 280
Dreieck Bunde (53.1628°N 7.2831°E / 53.1628; 7.2831)
A 31: Leer
Dreieck Leer (53.267°N 7.497°E / 53.267; 7.497)
A 28: Westerstede → Oldenburg → Delmenhorst
Dreieck Stuhr (53.00533°N 8.70239°E / 53.00533; 8.70239)( E37 / A 1)
A 1: Bremen → Hamburg → Lübeck( E234 / A 27: Bremen (53.0421°N 8.9833°E / 53.0421; 8.9833))( E45 / A 7: Hamburg (53.3771°N 10.0155°E / 53.3771; 10.0155))( E26 / A 24: Hamburg (53.5616°N 10.1667°E / 53.5616; 10.1667))
Kreuz Lübeck (53.8501°N 10.5937°E / 53.8501; 10.5937)( E47 / A 1)
A 20: Lübeck → Wismar → Rostock
Stralsund (54.08632°N 13.1275°E / 54.08632; 13.1275)
B 96: Stralsund → Bergen auf Rügen(Concurrency with E251)
Sassnitz (54°30′59″N 13°38′28″E)
Elbe Crossing
There are currently plans to reroute the E22 between Lübeck and Westerstede, to go north of Hamburg and Bremen over the A20, when this new motorway is built after 2020. The E22 would then use the planned tunnel under the Elbe at Drochtersen/Glückstadt.
Sweden
Trelleborg (55°22′N 13°10′E)
E22: Trelleborg → Vellinge(Start of concurrency with E6)
Trafikplats Petersborg (55.5474°N 13.0023°E / 55.5474; 13.0023)
E22: Malmö(Concurrency with E20)( E65 (55.5602°N 13.0782°E / 55.5602; 13.0782))
Trafikplats Kronetorp (55.6411°N 13.1047°E / 55.6411; 13.1047)(End of concurrency with E6)
E22: Lund → Kristianstad → Karlshamn → Ronneby → Karlskrona → Kalmar → Oskarshamn → Västervik → Norrköping
Trafikplats Norrköping Södra (58.5805°N 16.1122°E / 58.5805; 16.1122)( E4)
Norrköping (58°36′N 16°12′E)
In Sweden, E-Roads do not have national numbers. There is currently no ferry across the Baltic Sea between Norrköping and Ventspils. The best ferry alternative is from Nynäshamn to Ventspils. The line is run by Scandlines.
Latvia
Ventspils (57°23′26″N 21°34′24″E)
A 10: Ventspils → Tukums → Jūrmala → Rīga
(56.91854°N 24.08826°E / 56.91854; 24.08826)
A 8 / A 10: Rīga
(56.92509°N 24.10758°E / 56.92509; 24.10758)
A 7 / A 8 / A 10: Rīga
(56.93777°N 24.12781°E / 56.93777; 24.12781)
A 6: Rīga → Salaspils( Start of concurrency with E67 / E77: A 5, Salaspils (56.8586°N 24.3121°E / 56.8586; 24.3121))
(56.8464°N 24.3966°E / 56.8464; 24.3966)
A 4: Salaspils
(56.90080°N 24.40652°E / 56.90080; 24.40652)(End of concurrency with E67 / E77)
P 5
(56.85879°N 24.56469°E / 56.85879; 24.56469)
P 80
(56.64158°N 25.44601°E / 56.64158; 25.44601)
A 6: Pļaviņas → Jēkabpils
(56.50399°N 25.88984°E / 56.50399; 25.88984)
A 12: Jēkabpils → Varakļāni → Viļāni → Rēzekne → Ludza → Zilupe
Zilupe (56°23′N 28°07′E)
Russia
Burachki (56.356°N 28.19383°E / 56.356; 28.19383)
M 9: Velikiye Luki → Nelidovo → Rzev → Volokolamsk → Krasnogorsk( E95 / R 23: Pustoshka (56.3152°N 29.392°E / 56.3152; 29.392))
(55.78968°N 37.37281°E / 55.78968; 37.37281)(Start of concurrency with E105)
MKAD: Moscow( End of concurrency with E105: M 10, Khimki (55.8816°N 37.4451°E / 55.8816; 37.4451))( Start of concurrency with E115: M 8, Mytishchi (55.8823°N 37.7259°E / 55.8823; 37.7259))
(55.77692°N 37.84271°E / 55.77692; 37.84271)(End of concurrency with E115)
M 7: Reutov → Balashikha → Noginsk → Sobinka → Vladimir → Vjazniki → Dzerzinsk → Nizhny Novgorod → Cheboksary → Kazan
(55.67488°N 49.70199°E / 55.67488; 49.70199)
M 12: Yelabuga
(55.80422°N 52.1399°E / 55.80422; 52.1399)( E017 / M 12)
M 7: Mendeleyevsk → Agryz → Izhevsk → Igra → Krasnokamsk → Perm
(57.9329°N 56.2679°E / 57.9329; 56.2679)
R 242: Perm → Kungur → Revda → Yekaterinburg
(56.8331°N 60.3209°E / 56.8331; 60.3209)
ЕКАД: Yekaterinburg
(56.8033°N 60.7904°E / 56.8033; 60.7904)
R 351: Yekaterinburg → Bogdanovich → Kamyshlov → Tyumen
(57.12983°N 65.48159°E / 57.12983; 65.48159)
Tyumen
(56.9191°N 65.8332°E / 56.9191; 65.8332)
R 402: Zavodoukovsk → Ishim
(56.1522°N 69.4773°E / 56.1522; 69.4773)( E30 / R 254)
Ishim (56°07′N 69°30′E)
Between Kazan and Igra, the road takes a detour over Yelabuga, because the shortest route between Kazan and Igra uses a ferry over the Vyatka River (56.592°N 50.709°E / 56.592; 50.709), and the road is a bad gravel road around that area.
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