Road Tunnels in Georgia — 7 Listed by Length

The median entry measures 1.24 km, so half the table sits below that and half above, which is a better guide to the typical structure here than the headline figure. The shortest recorded entry is 0.7 km against 3.66 km at the top, a spread of 5.23x across the same table.

The middle half of the table runs from 0.84 km to 2.2 km, and that band is where most of the engineering on this page actually sits. Between the longest and the tenth-longest the drop is 2.96 km, which is the part of the table that changes when a single scheme opens.

Where one of these 7 lengths disagrees with an operator's own figure for Georgia, the table keeps the published value and notes the difference instead of averaging the two. The 7 rows for Georgia are ordered by length, not by date, so the 2004 opening sits well down the table without being any less current.

7entries listed
3.66 kmlongest bore
1974–2004openings span
11.3 kmtotal length

The record table

How this archive measures: lengths, bores, dates and ordering

Road Tunnels in Georgia — Complete List by Length
State	Tunnel	Length (m)	Date of opening	Notes
RUS - GE	Roki	3 660	1985	One tube, two lanes. Altitude: 1200 m. Trans Caucasian highway
GE	Gagra 3	2 200	1982	Altitude: 80 m
GE	Rikoti	1 750	1974	Altitude: 800 m
GE	Gagra 2	1 240	1980	Altitude: 80 m
GE	Tbilisi	910	1978	Shortest tube: 885 m. Altitude: 400 m
GE	Gagra 1	836	1980	Altitude: 80 m
GE	Cahqvi	700	2004	Second tube: 700 m. Altitude: 60 m

How this table is compiled

Second and third place go to Gagra 3 at 2.2 km and Rikoti at 1.75 km. The table on this page runs to 7 rows and records State, Tunnel, Length (m), Date of opening and Notes for each of them, which is the shape the original compiler chose rather than one imposed here.

Lengths for Georgia are recorded in metres which is how the operators publish them and why the shortest entry here reads as 700 m and not a rounded figure. The longest entry is 5.2 times the shortest and 3.0 times the median, which is the quickest measure of how uneven the table is.

This page records the road tunnels catalogued for Georgia in a tunnel almanac maintained at this address since the late 1990s. The date of opening column runs from 1974 to 2004 across 7 dated rows, and the 1980s alone account for 4 of them, so the building effort here came in waves rather than evenly.

Further down the table, Tbilisi is recorded at 0.91 km and Gagra 1 at 0.84 km. The material on this page is held in 3 captions rather than in running text, 24 words of it, each written against the image or row it belongs to by the compiler who put the page together.

A new scheme in Georgia would have to beat 3.66 km to change the head of this table, and that is the figure worth rechecking when one opens. The dated entries fall across 6 different years, which is a rough measure of whether this was a sustained programme or a handful of separate schemes.

Reading the figures

Dates for Georgia refer to opening to traffic, not breakthrough, so the 1974 entry was under construction for some years before that. Laid end to end the entries on this page would run 11.3 km, which is a number with no engineering meaning but a useful sense of the scale of what is catalogued.

The earliest dated entry is Rikoti, opened in 1974, and the most recent is Cahqvi in 2004. Read down the length (m) column, the 7 values run from 700 m to 3 660 m with a midpoint at 1 240 m; the spread rather than the maximum is what says how uneven this set is.

The table below lists 7 entries with a recorded length, each giving a name, a length in metres and, where documented, the year of opening. The tunnel column names 7 distinct entries on this page, Roki and Gagra 3 among them, each traceable to the operator or administration record it was taken from.

7 of the 7 rows carry an entry in the notes column — 100 per cent of the table — and that column is where the qualifications live: tube counts, closures, boundaries and the reason a figure reads the way it does. Tunnel building in Georgia is shaped by geology and settlement pattern as much as by transport policy.

The longest entry is Roki, at 3.66 km, opened in 1985. A tunnel list for Georgia reads differently from a neighbouring country's: 1 of these 7 structures pass three kilometres, and the same journey time is bought with one long bore in one country and a dozen short ones in another.

Questions about Georgia

What is the longest road tunnel in Georgia?

On the figures recorded here it is Roki, at 3.66 km, opened in 1985. It heads a table of 7 entries ordered by bore length, not by span, cost or construction difficulty.

How many road tunnels are listed for Georgia?

7 entries with a recorded length appear on this page, from 0.7 km at the short end to 3.66 km at the top, with the middle of the set around 1.24 km.

How far back do the opening dates go?

The earliest dated entry opened in 1974 and the most recent in 2004, so this page covers 30 years across 6 distinct opening years. A date here is the opening to traffic, which on these 7 dated rows is one to two years after breakthrough.

What is a typical length among the road tunnels listed for Georgia?

The median entry measures 1.24 km and the middle half of the table runs from 0.84 km to 2.2 km. The headline figure of 3.66 km is the outlier, not the norm, which is why the median is the more useful number when comparing one national list against another.

When were most of the road tunnels in Georgia built?

The busiest decade recorded here is the 1980s, with 4 openings, then the 1970s with 2, and 1 of the dated entries opened from 2000 onwards. That is 57 per cent of the 7 dated rows in a single decade, which says as much about when the route was funded as about the engineering.

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Road Tunnels in Georgia — Complete List by Length. The World's Longest Tunnels. https://www.lotsberg.net/data/georgia/list.html

Road Tunnels in Georgia — Complete List by Length