Description of Route Route nationale 2

1 description of route

1.1 paris soissons (0 km 100 km)
1.2 soissons laon (100 km 130 km)
1.3 laon maubeuge (130 km 224 km)

description of route
paris soissons (0 km 100 km)

the rn 2 starts @ porte de la villette in north-east paris. called avenue jean jaurès le bourget crossing 86 autoroute , 1 autoroute (paris lille). road passes aéroport de paris - le bourget. turns east leaving n 17. road crosses 1 , 3 autoroute. n 2 merges 104 autoroute briefly passes south east of charles de gaulle airport. original road ran through airport site , designated d 902 south , d 401 through dammartin-en-goële.

the road by-passes many of villages , small towns on original route such nanteuil-le-haudouin. road passes through forêt de retz. road passes open country , war cemeteries town of soissons on river aisne. road crosses n 31 (rouen reims.

soissons laon (100 km 130 km)

north of town countryside more wooded road passes monument des crapouillots. road reaches ridge on walled town of laon sits. road crosses n 44 (reims cambrai).

laon maubeuge (130 km 224 km)

the road heads north east on 26 autoroute (calais troyes). countryside flat , open. road turns north after small town of vervins. road crosses upper reaches of oise. @ la capelle road meets n 29 le havre , n 43 (calais metz).

the countryside becomes more hilly on way avesnes-sur-helpe. @ maubeuge road crosses river sambre, , n 49 (valenciennes belgium). road continues north frontier belgium , mons becoming n 6. route reaches brussels.