The A5 motorway is a motorway in Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

 spanning 55.5 kilometres (34.5 mi). It connects Osijek

Osijek

Osijek is the fourth largest city in Croatia with a population of 83,496 in 2011. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja county...

, the largest city in Slavonia

Slavonia

Slavonia is a geographical and historical region in eastern Croatia...

 region, to the Croatian motorway network at the Sredanci interchange

Sredanci interchange

The Sredanci interchange is a cloverleaf interchange west of Slavonski Brod, Croatia. It is named after nearby village of Sredanci. As of September 2011, the interchange represents the southern terminus of the A5 motorway and it connects the A5 route to the A3 motorway facilitating a link between...

 of the A3 motorway

A3 (Croatia)

The A3 motorway is a major motorway in Croatia spanning . The motorway connects Zagreb, the nation's capital, to the Slavonia region and a number of cities along the Sava River. It represents a major east–west transportation corridor in Croatia and a significant part of the Pan-European Corridor...

. The A5 represents a significant north–south transportation corridor in Croatia and is a part of the European route E73. The A5 motorway route also follows Pan-European corridor Vc

Pan-European corridors

The ten Pan-European transport corridors were defined at the second Pan-European transport Conference in Crete, March 1994, as routes in Central and Eastern Europe that required major investment over the next ten to fifteen years. Additions were made at the third conference in Helsinki in 1997...

. In addition to Osijek, the A5 motorway also passes near Đakovo.

The first section of the A5, joining the Sredanci interchange to Đakovo, was opened in 2007; the route to Osijek opened in 2009.