Tripoli–Cape Town Highway
| Trans-African Highway 3 | ||||
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| Length | 10,808 km (6,716 mi) | |||
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| North end | TAH 1 in Tripoli, Libya | |||
| TAH 5 and TAH 6 in Ndjamena, Chad TAH 8 in Yaoundé, Cameroon TAH 9 in Angola | ||||
| South end | TAH 4 in Cape Town, South Africa | |||
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The Tripoli–Cape Town Highway or TAH 3 is Trans-African Highway 3 in the transcontinental road network being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB), and the African Union. The route has a length of 10,808 km (6,716 mi) and has the longest missing links and requires the most new road construction.
South Africa was not originally included in the route which was first planned in the Apartheid era, but it is now recognized that it would continue to Cape Town. It may still be referred to in documents as the Tripoli-Windhoek Highway because of this fact.
It is meant to be the second link between North and Southern Africa, with the Cairo-Cape Town Highway being the other route, passing through East Africa.