Editing Ring road (section)

==Nomenclature==
[[File:Москва-Сити и ТТК (вид от Кутузовского проспекта).jpg|thumb|right|The [[Third Ring Road (Moscow)|Third Ring Road]] in the area of the [[Moscow International Business Center]].]]
The name "ring road" is used for the majority of metropolitan circumferential routes in Europe, such as the [[Bundesautobahn 10|Berliner Ring]], the [[Brussels Ring]], the [[A10 motorway (Netherlands)|Amsterdam Ring]] and the [[Leeds]] [[Leeds Inner Ring Road|Inner]] and [[Leeds Outer Ring Road|Outer]] ring roads. [[Australia]], Pakistan, and India also use the term ring road, as in [[Melbourne]]'s [[M80 Ring Road, Melbourne|Western Ring Road]], [[Lahore]]'s [[Lahore Ring Road]] and [[Hyderabad]]'s [[Outer Ring Road (Hyderabad)|Outer Ring Road]]. In Canada the term is the most commonly used, with "orbital" also used, but to a much lesser extent.

In Europe and Australia, some ring roads, particularly longer ones of [[motorway]] standard, are known as "orbital motorways". Examples are the [[London Orbital]] (generally known as the M25; 188&nbsp;km), [[Sydney Orbital Network]] (110&nbsp;km), and [[Grande Raccordo Anulare|Rome Orbital]] (68&nbsp;km).

In the United States many ring roads are called '''beltlines''', '''beltways''' or '''loops''', such as the [[Capital Beltway]] around [[Washington, D.C.]] Some ring roads, such as Washington's Capital Beltway, use "Inner Loop" and "Outer Loop" [[inner/outer directions|terminology]] for directions of travel, since [[cardinal directions|cardinal (compass) directions]] cannot be signed uniformly around the entire loop. The term 'ring road' is occasionally – and inaccurately – used interchangeably with the term '[[Bypass (road)|bypass]]'.