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24 November 2021
By the end of the 2nd century CE (for over 5 centuries), Roman engineers built about 48,500 Roman miles (71,700 km) paved roads . Less than 100 years later, the inventory of Emperor Diocletian showed the existence of 372 roads in the area of the empire with a total length of 53,000 Roman miles (over 78.3 thousand km ).
For comparison, the total length of highways in the USA is about 75,000 km.
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