It is common in the United States to drive on the right side of the road. Do you know that there are countries that don’t drive on the right side of the road? – LHT, or left-hand traffic, is observed by 78 nations and territories.
As a result, all vehicles are operated using the left-hand side of the road as the default.
A growing number of countries and territories adhere to RHT, which entails driving on the right side of the road for all drivers.
Most individuals drive on the right by a wide margin. RHT is used on almost three-quarters of the world’s highways. There are 163 countries and territories to be found on the right side of the road.
When it comes to countries and territories that use right-hand driving today, the number of countries and territories that used left-hand driving in the early 1900s is almost identical to today’s number. More countries began using RHT in 1919.
165 nations and territories currently drive on the right-hand side of the road.
Country | 2022 Population |
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Palau | 18.2330 |
San Marino | 34.0850 |
Liechtenstein | 38.3870 |
Monaco | 39.7830 |
Marshall Islands | 60.0570 |
Andorra | 77.4630 |
Micronesia | 117.4890 |
Sao Tome and Principe | 227.6790 |
Vanuatu | 321.8320 |
Iceland | 345.3930 |
Belize | 412.1900 |
Cape Verde | 567.6780 |
Montenegro | 627.9500 |
Luxembourg | 642.3710 |
Comoros | 907.4190 |
Djibouti | 1016.0970 |
Estonia | 1321.9100 |
Equatorial Guinea | 1496.6620 |
Bahrain | 1783.9830 |
Latvia | 1848.8370 |
Guinea-Bissau | 2063.3670 |
Slovenia | 2078.0340 |
Gabon | 2331.5330 |
Gambia | 2558.4820 |
Lithuania | 2661.7080 |
Albania | 2866.3740 |
Armenia | 2971.9660 |
Qatar | 2979.9150 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3249.3170 |
Mongolia | 3378.0780 |
Uruguay | 3496.0160 |
Eritrea | 3662.2440 |
Georgia | 3968.7380 |
Moldova | 4013.1710 |
Croatia | 4059.2860 |
Kuwait | 4380.3260 |
Panama | 4446.9640 |
Mauritania | 4901.9810 |
Central African Republic | 5016.6780 |
Costa Rica | 5182.3540 |
Liberia | 5305.1170 |
Oman | 5323.9930 |
Palestine | 5345.5410 |
Slovakia | 5460.1930 |
Norway | 5511.3700 |
Finland | 5554.9600 |
Republic of the Congo | 5797.8050 |
Denmark | 5834.9500 |
Turkmenistan | 6201.9430 |
El Salvador | 6550.3890 |
Lebanon | 6684.8490 |
Kyrgyzstan | 6728.2710 |
Nicaragua | 6779.1000 |
Bulgaria | 6844.5970 |
Libya | 7040.7450 |
Paraguay | 7305.8430 |
Laos | 7481.0230 |
Sierra Leone | 8306.4360 |
Serbia | 8653.0160 |
Togo | 8680.8370 |
Switzerland | 8773.6370 |
Israel | 8922.8920 |
Austria | 9066.7100 |
Belarus | 9432.8000 |
Hungary | 9606.2590 |
Tajikistan | 9957.4640 |
United Arab Emirates | 10081.7850 |
Portugal | 10140.5700 |
Sweden | 10218.9710 |
Honduras | 10221.2470 |
Azerbaijan | 10300.2050 |
Jordan | 10300.8690 |
Greece | 10316.6370 |
Czech Republic | 10736.7840 |
Dominican Republic | 11056.3700 |
Cuba | 11305.6520 |
South Sudan | 11618.5110 |
Belgium | 11668.2780 |
Haiti | 11680.2830 |
Bolivia | 11992.6560 |
Tunisia | 12046.6560 |
Burundi | 12624.8400 |
Benin | 12784.7260 |
Rwanda | 13600.4640 |
Guinea | 13865.6910 |
Somalia | 16841.7950 |
Cambodia | 17168.6390 |
Netherlands | 17211.4470 |
Chad | 17413.5800 |
Senegal | 17653.6710 |
Ecuador | 18113.3610 |
Guatemala | 18584.0390 |
Romania | 19031.3350 |
Kazakhstan | 19205.0430 |
Chile | 19250.1950 |
Syria | 19364.8090 |
Mali | 21473.7640 |
Burkina Faso | 22102.8380 |
Taiwan | 23888.5950 |
North Korea | 25990.6790 |
Niger | 26083.6600 |
Ivory Coast | 27742.2980 |
Cameroon | 27911.5480 |
Madagascar | 29178.0770 |
Venezuela | 29266.9910 |
Yemen | 31154.8670 |
Ghana | 32395.4500 |
Peru | 33684.2080 |
Uzbekistan | 34382.0840 |
Angola | 35027.3430 |
Saudi Arabia | 35844.9090 |
Poland | 37739.7850 |
Morocco | 37772.7560 |
Canada | 38388.4190 |
Afghanistan | 40754.3880 |
Iraq | 42164.9650 |
Ukraine | 43192.1220 |
Algeria | 45350.1480 |
Sudan | 45992.0200 |
Argentina | 46010.2340 |
Spain | 46719.1420 |
South Korea | 51329.8990 |
Colombia | 51512.7620 |
Myanmar | 55227.1430 |
Italy | 60262.7700 |
France | 65584.5180 |
Germany | 83883.5960 |
Turkey | 85561.9760 |
Iran | 86022.8370 |
DR Congo | 95240.7920 |
Vietnam | 98953.5410 |
Egypt | 106156.6920 |
Philippines | 112508.9940 |
Ethiopia | 120812.6980 |
Mexico | 131562.7720 |
Russia | 145805.9470 |
Brazil | 215353.5930 |
Nigeria | 216746.9340 |
United States | 334805.2690 |
China | 1448471.4000 |
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