E22 (Europe)

E 22
Route information
Length	5,320 km (3,310 mi)
Major junctions
West end	Holyhead, United Kingdom
Major intersections	E 5/ E 20 at Warrington E 15 at Pontefract E 20 at Goole E 19/ E 35 at Amsterdam E 232 at Groningen E 37/ E 234 at Bremen E 45/ E 26 at Hamburg E 47 at Lübeck E 251 at Grimmen E 251 at Sassnitz E 6 at Trelleborg E 6/ E 20/ E 65 at Malmö E 4 at Norrköping E 67/ E 77 at Salaspils E 95 at Pustoshka E 105/ E 115 at Moscow E 30 at Ishim
East end	Ishim, Russia
Location
Countries	United Kingdom Netherlands Germany Sweden Latvia Russia
Major cities	Manchester Leeds Amsterdam Bremen Hamburg Malmö Rīga Moscow Nizhny Novgorod Kazan Perm Yekaterinburg
Highway system
International E-road network A Class B Class
← E 21 → E 23

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

E22 route summary

	A55 → A494 → M56 → M6 → M62 → M60 → M62 → M18 → M180 → A180 → A160
	A10 → A8 → A7 → N7 → A7 → N7 → A7
	A 280 → A 31 → A 28 → A 1 → A 20 → B 96
	E6/E22 → E6/E20/E22 → E22
	A10 → A8/A10 → A7/A8/A10 → A6 → A4 → P5 → P80 → A6 → A12
	M9 → МКАD → M7 → P242 → EKAD → P351 → P402

United Kingdom

Port of Holyhead

• : Holyhead - A494
  • Ewloe Interchange
• : A55 - Ellesmere Port
  • Dunkirk Roundabout
• : Ellesmere Port - Warrington
  • Lymm Interchange
• : Warrington
  (Concurrency with E 5)
  • Croft Interchange
    (Start of concurrency with E 20)
• : Warrington - Manchester
  • Eccles Interchange
• : Manchester Outer Ring Road
  • Simister Island
• : Manchester - Goole
  ( E 15/: Pontefract
  • Langham Interchange
    (End of concurrency with E 20)
• : Goole - M180
  • North Ings Interchange
• : Whole length
  • Barnetby Top
• : M180 - A160
  • Brocklesby Interchange
• : A180 - Immingham (Whole length)

Port of Immingham

Netherlands

Main article: European route E22 in the Netherlands

Amsterdam

• • Knooppunt De Nieuwe Meer
    ( E 19//)
• : Ring Amsterdam
  • Coenplein
    ( E 35/)
• : Amsterdam - Zaandam
  • Knooppunt Zaandam
• : Zaandam - Sneek
  • Folsgare
• : Sneek
  • Sneek
• : Sneek - Groningen
  • Groningen-West
• : Groningen
  ( E 232/
  • Westerbroek
• : Groningen - German border

Bad Nieuweschans

Germany

Bunde

• A 280: Dutch border - A 31 (Whole length)
  • Dreieck Bunde
• A 31: A 280 - Leer
  • Dreieck Leer
• A 28: Leer - Bremen
  • Dreieck Stuhr
    ( E 37/ A 1)
• A 1: Bremen - Lübeck
  ( E 234/ A 27: Bremen
  ( E 45/ A 7: Hamburg
  ( E 26/ A 24: Hamburg
  • Kreuz Lübeck
    ( E 47/ A 1)
• A 20: Lübeck - Grimmen
  • Stralsund
• B 96: Grimmen - Sassnitz
  (Concurrency with E 251)

Sassnitz

Elbe Crossing

Main article: 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

Main article: European route E22 in Sweden

Trelleborg
(Start of concurrency with E 6)

• E 22: Trelleborg - Malmö
  • Trafikplats Petersborg
• E 22: Malmö
  (Concurrency with E 20)
  ( E 65:
  • Trafikplats Kronetorp
    (End of concurrency with E 6)
• E 22: Malmö - Norrköping
  • Trafikplats Norrköping Södra
    ( E 4)

Norrköping

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

• A 10: Ventspils - Rīga

• A 8/ A 10: Rīga

• A 7/ A 8/ A 10: Rīga

• A 6: Rīga - Salaspils
  (Start of concurrency with E 67 and E 77: Salaspils

• A 4: Salaspils
  • 
    (End of concurrency with E 67 and E 77)
• P 5: Salaspils - Tīnūži

• P 80: Tīnūži - Koknese

• A 6: Koknese - Jēkabpils

• A 12: Jēkabpils - Russian border

Zilupe

Russia

Burachki

• M 9: Latvian border - Moscow (Whole length)
  ( E 95/ R 23: Pustoshka
  • 
    (Start of concurrency with E 105)
• MKAD: Moscow Ring Road
  (End of concurrency with E 105:
  (Start of concurrency with E 115:
  • 
    (End of concurrency with E 115)
• M 7: Moscow - Yelabuga

• M 7: Yelabuga - Perm

• R 242: Perm - Yekaterinburg

• EKAD: Yekaterinburg Ring Road

• R 351: Yekaterinburg - Tyumen

• R 402: Tyumen - Ishim
  • 
    ( E 30/ R 254)

Ishim
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, and the road is a bad gravel road around that area. Google Maps shows the E 22 to use the ferry, but that is wrong; the UN convention lists Yelabuga along a paved road without any ferry. Both routes are visible in Google Streetview. A much used shortcut is Izhevsk - Votkinsk - Perm.

Between Perm and Ishim, the E 22 follows the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Gallery

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  E 22/ at Penmaenmawr, North Wales, UK.

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  E 22/ at junction 22, the highest point on the English motorway network, West Yorkshire, UK

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  E 22 over Afsluitdijk in Netherlands

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  E 22 at Norrköping, Sweden

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  E 22 near Rīga, Latvia

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  E 22/ M 9 begins in Moscow

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  E 22/ M 7 near Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Moscow Oblast, Russia

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  E 22 in Pokrov, Russia

External links

• UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
• E22 route near Jūrmala, Latvia