New Zealand's longest straight road is State Highway 7 through Culverden in the South Island - 13.7 kms or 8.5 miles. 1 miles = 1.609344 kilometers
Compare to North Dakota:
Q: How do you turn on the cruise control in North Dakota?
A: Jump in the back seat.
There are a lot of very straight roads up here. One in particular, North Dakota Highway 46, is supposedly the straightest of them all -- plumb line straight -- the longest straight road in America. It stretches across 123 miles of north Dakota prairie from Hwy 30 in the west to a nameless county blacktop just past I-29 in the east,.
North Dakota boosters won't like to hear it, but there is one stretch of straight American road that's even longer than ND 46 -- Interstate 80 across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. It runs bullet-straight east from just past exit 4 almost to mile marker 40, where it makes a slight jog. That's 35 miles. But when you're rocketing across a featureless death zone at 85 mph, it hardly seems that far.
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