Pietermaritzburg, like most
South African cities, uses Metropolitan or "M" routes for important intra-city routes, a layer below
National
National may refer to:
Common uses
* Nation or country
** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen
Places in the United States
* National, Maryland, c ...
(N) roads and
Regional
In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and t ...
(R) roads. Each city's M roads are independently numbered.
In
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
,
Metropolitan or "M" routes are mostly used in
metropolitan municipalities and
Pietermaritzburg is the only exception whereby it is not a metropolitan municipality yet still uses these road designations.
Table of M roads
See Also
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Numbered Routes in South Africa
In South Africa some roads are designated as numbered routes to help with navigation. There is a nationwide numbering scheme consisting of national, provincial and regional routes, and within various urban areas there are schemes of metropoli ...
References
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Roads in South Africa
Transport in KwaZulu-Natal