Freeway 1 (Arabic: طريق المرور السريع رقم 1) is the first and longest freeway in Iraq. It is 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) long. It extends from Umm Qasr Port in Basra to Ar Rutba in Anbar, where it spreads into a new freeway with same number towards Syria and Jordan.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Arabic. Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Arabic Wikipedia article at [[:ar:طريق المرور السريع رقم 1 (العراق)]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|ar|طريق المرور السريع رقم 1 (العراق)}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

This article does not cite any sources. (January 2024)

Quick Facts Route information, Length ...

Freeway 1
١ طريق المرور السريع رقم
M1
Map Route of the Freeway 1
Route information
Part of
Length	1,200 km (750 mi)
Existed	1990–present
Location
Country	Iraq
Highway system
Highways in Iraq

Close

The part of the freeway from Nasiriyah to Al Diwaniyah is a single carriageway, because the second carriageway has not been completed.

After a visit to the United States in 1983, Saddam Hussein was fascinated by the extensive Interstate and Highway network in the USA and wanted a similar endeavour for Iraq. Thus started construction on the Freeway and Highway Network of Iraq, which led to large interchange constructions and paving of roads across the country. In the following years, multiple smaller branch freeways were constructed alongside the main route 1 like the M31 linking Central Basra and the M97 Central Baghdad to the M1.

• Basrah
• Nasiriyah
• Al Diwaniyah
• Al Hillah
• Baghdad
• Fallujah
• Habbaniyah
• Ramadi
• Ar Rutba

This Iraq geographical location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This article related to a road in Asia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This article about transport in Iraq is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e