National highways — from where to where (new numbers)
7 sentencesSrinivas gave Kavya forty-four bangles.
Srinagar · Kanyakumari=NH-44 — India’s longest (≈ 4,112 km) · North-South corridor · passes Dholpur in Rajasthan
The porter carried silver up twenty-seven floors.
Porbandar · Silchar=NH-27 — East-West corridor · through Udaipur-Chittorgarh-Kota in Rajasthan
Deepu bought cherries for forty-eight rupees.
Delhi · Chennai=NH-48 — via Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru · includes old NH-8
Deepu gave Komal nineteen sweets.
Delhi · Kolkata=NH-19 — via Agra · old NH-2 · part of Sher Shah Suri’s Grand Trunk Road
Komal ate sixteen cherries.
Kolkata · Chennai=NH-16 — east coast · old NH-5 and NH-60
Paneer for Kavya cost sixty-six rupees.
Panvel · Kanyakumari=NH-66 — west coast · old NH-17 and NH-47
Happy Komal scored fifty-three runs.
Hazira · Kolkata=NH-53 — through Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha · old NH-6
The underlined number is the new NH number. New numbering (since 2010): north-south highways get even numbers rising from east to west (NH-16 → 44 → 66); east-west highways get odd numbers rising from north to south (NH-1 → 27 → 53) · among the shortest is NH-966B (about 6 km, Kochi) · the longest NH network is in Maharashtra, then Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.