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Miles of Paved Roads in the US
According to the Rough Guides travel book series, there's more than 5.7 million miles of paved highway in the USA. The public road mileage per "Our Nation's Highways" by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) --
"The vast majority (75.2 percent) of the Nation�s roadways are under the jurisdiction of local governments (town, city, county). Only 4.3 percent are under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government which includes roads in national forests and parks and on military and Indian reservations. The rest of the roadways (representing 20.5 percent of the total 3,933,985 miles and including the entire Interstate System) are controlled and maintained by the State governments".
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