Finnish national road 7

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Finnish. (June 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Finnish Wikipedia article at [[:fi:Valtatie 7]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fi|Valtatie 7}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

National Road 7
Valtatie 7 (Finnish) Riksväg 7 (Swedish)
Valtatie 7, Riksväg 7
Route information
Part of E18
Maintained by the Finnish Road Administration
Length	189 km (117 mi)
Major junctions
From	Helsinki
To	Virolahti (Russian border)
Location
Country	Finland
Major cities	Porvoo, Kotka, Hamina
Highway system
Highways in Finland

Finnish national road 7 (Finnish: Valtatie 7; Swedish: Riksväg 7) is a highway in Finland. It runs from Erottaja in Helsinki to the Russian frontier at the Vaalimaa border crossing point in Virolahti. The road is 189 kilometres (117 mi) long. The road is also European route E18 and it is a part of TERN.

Route

The route of the road is

. There is a plan to extend the motorway from its current endpoint in Lelu, Hamina to Vaalimaa by 2018, finalizing the motorway link between Helsinki and the Russian border; construction is due to begin in late 2015.

Images

• 
  National road 7 in Viikki, Helsinki
• 
  National road 7 in Sipoo
• 
  Motorway in Kotka
• 
  New and old National road 7 in Pyhtää

See also

• Itäväylä

External links

Media related to National road 7 (Finland) at Wikimedia Commons

• Matti Grönroos – Valtatie 7 (in Finnish)
• Queue situation at the Finnish/Russian border
• Loviisa - Kotka project website
• Hamina bypass project website
• Hamina - Vaalimaa project website Archived 2016-04-16 at the Wayback Machine