Riksväg 1 was 1945 to 1962 the trunk road between

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and

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. Its importance as a trunk road have nowadays been replaced by the

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E4 which partly runs in parallel with ''Riksväg 1''. In 1960 the complete distance of ''Riksväg 1'' was 588 kilometers, while the corresponding distance of the E4 today is 561 kilometers. The older parts of the road between

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and

Vaggeryd Vaggeryd is a locality situated in Vaggeryd Municipality, Jönköping County, Sweden with 4,920 inhabitants in 2010. Together with Skillingaryd it is the seat of the municipality. Vaggeryd is situated about 10 km north of its co-municipal sea ...

is nowadays advertised as the scenic and tourist route ''

Riksettan Riksettan or Turistväg Riksettan is the name of a scenic route that goes from Vaggeryd in the north, through Värnamo, Ljungby, Markaryd, and ends in Örkelljunga in the south. The route is part of the classic national road '' Riksväg 1'' and g ...

''. The northernmost parts between

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and

was also called '' Södertäljevägen''. Through

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and past the lake

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it is now called Bergaholmsvägen. An older stretch south of Stockholm was

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, which still partly exist.

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*The full stretch of forme
Riksväg 1
marked in

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. Roads in Sweden

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