Fezzan Road is an asphalt road in central Libya

Libya

Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....

, running from Abu Qurayn

Abu Qurayn

Abu Qurayn or Abu Grein , also known as El Hisha El Jadida , is a village in Libya. It is located 118 km south of Misrata, and 138 km west of Sirte. It is on the cross-roads between the Libyan Coastal Highway and the Fezzan road....

 near the coast to Sabha in the Sahara Desert. It is 620 km (385 mi) long.

History

Fezzan Road was constructed in the early 1960s. It was the largest road project in Libya since the Italian colonial Libyan Coastal Highway. It was probably the most important transportation project in Libya prior to the petroleum era.

The importance of Fezzan Road was reduced after paving the Mizda–Brak Road in the 1980s. It reduced the full Tripoli-Sabha route length from 933 km (580 mi) to 780 km (485 mi).