page_title: Libyan Coastal Highway
section_title: Junctions
hierarchical_section_title: Libyan Coastal Highway / Junctions
caption_attribution_description: English: A map of mid-Libya featuring parts of Via Balbia and Fezzan road.
context_page_description: The Libyan Coastal Highway, formerly the Litoranea Balbo, is a highway that is the only major road that runs along the entire east-west length of the Libyan Mediterranean coastline. It is a section in the Cairo–Dakar Highway #1 in the Trans-African Highway system of the African Union, Arab Maghreb Union and others.
  Built under the rule of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in colonial Italian Libya in the 1930s, it was named Via Balbia' in honour of governor-general Italo Balbo, but renamed to "Libyan Coastal Highway" after independence and enlarged.
  In the 2011 Libyan civil war the highway was a strategic and symbolic element, as the main route through the contested coastal region between Sirte and Benghazi.
context_section_description: The highway has become a junction for new southbound roads into the Fezzan region and Sahara, and new east-west shortcut highways in Cyrenaica and Tripolitania. They include:
  Ajdabiya–Kufra Road
  Charruba–Timimi Road
  Fezzan Road
  Tobruk–Ajdabiya Road
  Tripoli – Cape Town Highway
  Via della Vittoria
caption: Map of the central section of the highway in the Misrata—Sirte region of Tripolitania, and its junction with the northern end of Fezzan Road.
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