Draft:Comparison of traffic signs in countries of the Arab world

This is a comparison of road signs in countries of the Arab world. These countries primarily speak Arabic which is an official language in many cases, or widely understood as a lingua franca.

Although most countries of the Arab world are not signatories to the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, road signs in Arabic-speaking countries generally use the same pattern of colors, shapes, and symbols as set out in this convention.

Road signs in Palestine are the same as those used in Israel, given that Israel's internationally recognized borders include the Palestinian territories.

All countries of the Arab world drive on the right and use the metric system.

Differences between traffic signs of the Arab world

Graphic differences

Although road signs in countries of the Arab world comply with the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, they may be differences in design of road signs.

Stop signs are typically monolingual, reading قف qif, or bilingual, additionally featuring the text stop. However, Lebanon only uses stop text, whereas Palestine uses a raised hand symbol instead of text in the same way as Israel does.

Typefaces

	Algeria	Bahrain	Djibouti	Egypt	Iraq	Jordan	Kuwait	Lebanon	Libya	Mauritania	Morocco	Oman	Palestine	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	Sudan	Syria	Tunisia	United Arab Emirates	Yemen
Arabic text	AF Najed	Boutros Advertisers Naskh	?	Fathi^[1]	Boutros Advertisers Naskh	AF Najed	Boutros Advertisers Naskh	Boutros Advertisers Naskh	?	?	ASV Codar	Boutros Advertisers Naskh	Medina Lt Bold	Boutros Advertisers Naskh	Boutros Advertisers Naskh	?	Boutros Advertisers Naskh	Traditional Arabic	Boutros Advertisers Naskh	?
Latin text	Arial Black	Helvetica Bold	Carretera Convencional [es]	Transport	DIN 1451	Tratex	Transport	Transport	?	?	Caractères L2	Transport	Helvetica Bold	Transport	Highway Gothic	?	DIN 1451 Engschrift	Arial Black	Transport	Transport
Other	Caractères	Transport	—	—	Arial Bold Alfabeto Normale [it]^[a]	—	—	—	—	—	Tifinaghe-Izuren IRCAM^[b]	Helvetica Bold	—	—	Transport	—	—	Caractères	—	—

^ Used in some parts of the Kurdistan Region.
^ For Tifinagh text.

Table of traffic signs comparison

Priority


	Algeria	Bahrain	Djibouti	Egypt	Iraq	Jordan	Kuwait	Lebanon	Libya	Mauritania	Morocco	Oman	Palestine	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	Sudan	Syria	Tunisia	United Arab Emirates	Yemen
Stop															or
Give way
Priority road
End of priority road
Give way to oncoming traffic
Priority over oncoming traffic
	Algeria	Bahrain	Djibouti	Egypt	Iraq	Jordan	Kuwait	Lebanon	Libya	Mauritania	Morocco	Oman	Palestinian territories	Qatar	Saudi Arabia	Sudan	Syria	Tunisia	United Arab Emirates	Yemen