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List of highways numbered 409

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2024
Entity authorityQ6622896 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following highways are numbered 409:

Canada

Manitoba Provincial Road 409

Ontario Highway 409

Costa Rica

National Route 409

Japan

Japan National Route 409

Norway

Fylkesvei 409 (Aust-Agder) Arendal-Tromøya (Norwegian National Road 409) is a single lane ringed road on Tromøy Island and connected to Tromøysundet on the mainland via Tromøy Bridge in southwest Norway.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of highways numbered 409” 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.