European route E10 is the second shortest Class A road which is part of the International E-road network. It begins in Å, Norway, and ends in Luleå, Sweden. The road is about in length. The Norwegian part of the road is also named Kong Olav Vs vei (). The road follows the route Å – Leknes –

Svolvær (Norwegian language, Norwegian, ), , or is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town and the administrative centre of Vågan Municipality in Nordland County, Norway. It is located on the island of Austvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago, alon ...

– Gullesfjordbotn – Bogen (Evenes) –

Bjerkvik or is a village in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located at the end of Herjangsfjorden, an arm of Ofotfjorden. Bjerkvik sits less than south of the border of Troms county and about across the fjord from the Na ...

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Kiruna (; ; ; ) is the northernmost Stad (Sweden), city in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland. It had 17,002 inhabitants in 2016 and is the seat of Kiruna Municipality (population: 23,167 in 2016) in Norrbotten County. The c ...

– Töre – Luleå. Most of the road is paved and two-lane, with the exception of some bridges between islands in

Nordland Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...

. It has a speed limit in Sweden, and is usually 7–8 meters wide, enough to make encounters between heavy vehicles trouble-free. In Norway the road is much more twisting than in Sweden, and around 6–7,5 m wide usually with a speed limit of . New sections have been built wide in the last 15 years, but there are still many narrow parts left. Often, the width makes encounters between heavy vehicles tight. For the last 50 km, until Å, the road is mostly less than wide, often . Buses and caravans should avoid driving here, but many of them do so anyway. The name E10 was given in 1992. Before 1985, E10 was the name of the road Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam-Groningen. The road between Narvik and Kiruna was finished in 1984, before that, no road existed at all directly between the two cities; the only way to travel between them was by train (with passenger services only three times a day), or by a large detour through Finland. In 2007, the road near Lofoten was shortened by about 30 km, and the ferry-service was bypassed for the E10, with the opening of Lofast, a new road between Fiskebøl and Gullesfjordbotn. At the end of 2007, the E10 had 18 tunnels totalling , all in Norway. Raftsundet_from_Raftsund_Bridge,_2010_September.JPG, View from Raftsund Bridge, E10 Reine-3.jpg, Scenery over Reine near Å in Lofoten, Norway. The E10 goes between the islands. Scenery along European route E10 in Kiruna.jpg, Scenery near Abisko village in

Kiruna Municipality Kiruna Municipality (; ; ; ) is a municipalities of Sweden, municipality in Norrbotten County in northernmost Sweden. Its administrative centre, seat is located in Kiruna. It is the northernmost municipality in Sweden, and at is Sweden's geograph ...

, Sweden. European route E10 - end of the route.jpg, End of the E10 in Å Europastrasse_Kreisverkehr_E_6_und_E_10.jpg, Roundabout junction of the E6 and E10 roads at Bjerkvik

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External links

UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
10 E010 E010 National Tourist Routes in Norway * Roads within the Arctic Circle {{Europe-road-stub