Highway
Major highways are often named and numbered by the governments that typically develop and maintain them. Australia's Highway 1 is the longest national highway in the world at over and runs almost the entire way around the continent. China has the world's largest network of highways followed closely by the United States of America. Some highways, like the Pan-American Highway or the European routes, span multiple countries. Some major highway routes include ferry services, such as U.S. Route 10, which crosses Lake Michigan.
Controlled-access highway
The National Trunk Highway System (NTHS, ) expressway network of the People's Republic of China is the longest in the world. The total length of China's expressways was by the end of 2014. Only in 2012, of expressways were added to this network.