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Longest route of the Asian Highway Network

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::summary Longest route of the Asian Highway Network ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox road"]

FieldValue
countryASIA
typeAH
route1
mapAH1 Route Map.svg
length_km20557
direction_aEast
direction_bWest
terminus_aTokyo, Japan
terminus_bKapıkule, Turkey
next_typeAH
next_route2
countriesJapan, South Korea, North Korea, China (including Hong Kong), Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey
::

::callout[type=note] a route of the Asian Highway Network ::

| country = ASIA | type = AH | route = 1 | map = AH1 Route Map.svg | length_km = 20557 | direction_a = East | direction_b = West | terminus_a = Tokyo, Japan | terminus_b = Kapıkule, Turkey | junction = | next_type = AH | next_route = 2 | countries = Japan, South Korea, North Korea, China (including Hong Kong), Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey

Asian Highway 1 (AH1) is the longest east–west route of the Asian Highway Network, running 20,557 km from Tokyo, Japan via the Korean Peninsula (South Korea and North Korea), China (Mainland China and Hong Kong), Mainland Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar), the South Asia (India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan), and the Iranian Plateau (Afghanistan and Iran) to the international border between Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul where it joins European route E80, running all the way to Lisbon, Portugal.

Japan

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/The_starting_point_of_Asian_highway_Route_1,_Chuo-city,_Tokyo,_Japan.jpg" caption="AH1 at [[Nihonbashi]], Tokyo, the "zero milepost" for measuring highway distances to Tokyo."] ::

The 1,200-kilometre section in Japan was added to the system in November 2003. It runs along the following tolled expressways:

From Fukuoka, the Japan–Korea Undersea Tunnel has been proposed to provide a fixed crossing.

South Korea

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Asian_Highways_1_South_Korea.jpg" caption="Signage along the [[Gyeongbu Expressway]] with AH 1 route marker"] ::

The section in South Korea mainly follows the Gyeongbu Expressway. The Highway Boundary of South and North Korea.

North Korea

China

Guangzhou - Shenzhen branch

Hong Kong

Vietnam

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Cầu_Long_Thành,Đường_cao_tốc_TP.HCM-Long_Thành-_Dầu_Giây.JPG" caption="Long Thanh Bridge"] ::

In future,

  • (Đồng Đăng - Lạng Sơn, Diễn Châu - Cam Lộ, Quảng Ngãi - Nha Trang, Cam Lâm - Vĩnh Hảo)
  • (Long Trường - Tân Vạn, Bình Chuẩn - Củ Chi)
  • (HCMC - Mộc Bài)

will become part of AH1 instead of the current National Highway 1 and National Highway 22.

Cambodia

Thailand

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Thailand_AH1_AH2_Route_32_Ayutthaya.JPG" caption="Ayutthaya"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Thai_myanmar_friendship_bridge.jpg" caption="Thai Myanmar Friendship Bridge"] ::

Myanmar

India (East)

Bangladesh

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Road_to_jaflong.jpg" caption="N2 in Bangladesh"] ::

India (West)

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Asean_India_Car_Rally_While_Reached_Numaligarh.jpg" caption="Asean India car rally crossing AH1 at [[Numaligarh]]"] ::

Pakistan

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/KhyberPassPakistan.jpg" caption="[[Khyber Pass"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Cruising_on_M2.jpg" caption="M-2]], [[Lahore]]-[[Islamabad"] ::

Afghanistan

Iran

  • [[File:Road36.png|18px|link=Road 36 (Iran)]] : Islam Qala - Taybad
  • [[File:Road97.png|18px|link=Road 97 (Iran)]] : Taybad- Sang Bast
  • [[File:Road44.png|18px|link=Road 44 (Iran)]] : Sang Bast - Nishapur - Sabzevar - Shahrood - Damghan - Semnan - Tehran
  • [[File:Freeway2 East in iran.jpg|thumb|[[Freeway 2 (Iran)|Freeway 2]], the continuation of AH1 in [[Iran]]]] [[File:Freeway in Iran.svg|30px]] [[File:Iran Freeway 2.png|13px|link=Freeway 2 (Iran)]] : Tehran - Qazvin - Zanjan - Tabriz [[File:خروجی زنجان در آزادراه زنجان قزوین.jpg|thumb|[[Freeway 2 (Iran)|Qazvin Zanjan Freeway]] is a part of Asian Highway 1 in [[Iran]]]] [[File:Qazvin-Rasht freeway intersection bridge on Zanjan-Qazvin freeway.jpg|thumb|[[Qazvin-Rasht Freeway]] [[Intersection (road)|intersection]] bridge on [[Freeway 2 (Iran)|Zanjan-Qazvin freeway]] in Iran]]
  • [[File:Road32.png|18px|link=Road 32 (Iran)]] : Tabriz - Bazargan ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Abhar_exit_on_Qazvin-Zanjan_freeway.jpg" caption="Qazvin-Zanjan freeway]] in Iran"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Qazvin_Zanjan_Freeway.jpg" caption="Zanjan]] in Iran"] ::

Turkey

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Yavuz_Sultan_Selim_Bridge_(30881432865).jpg" caption="[[Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge"] ::

Connection to E80

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/European_route_E80.png" caption="E80 across southern Europe"] ::

Main article: European route E80

The route AH1 links to in Turkey. The E80 continues in the E-road network from the border station at Gürbulak in Turkey to Istanbul followed by E80 highways to Kapitan Andreevo/Kapıkule, Sofia, Niš, Pristina, Dubrovnik, Pescara, Rome, Genoa, Nice, Toulouse, Burgos, Valladolid, Salamanca and finally Lisbon on the Atlantic Ocean.

References

References

  1. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, [http://www.unescap.org/ttdw/Publications/TIS_pubs/pub_2303/Full%20version.pdf 2003 Asian Highway Handbook] {{webarchive. link. (2012-04-14 , 2003, page 54)
  2. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, [http://www.unescap.org/ttdw/Publications/TIS_pubs/pub_2303/Full%20version.pdf 2003 Asian Highway Handbook] {{webarchive. link. (2012-04-14 , 2003, page 3)
  3. link. [[MLIT]]
  4. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific,[http://www.unescap.org/ttdw/Publications/TIS_pubs/pub_2303/Full%20version.pdf 2003 Asian Highway Handbook] {{webarchive. link. (2012-04-14 , 2003, page 54 shows an aerial photo of the Yokohama Aoba Interchange, placing AH1 clearly on the Tomei Expressway rather than the other Tokyo-Nagoya expressway, the [[Chūō Expressway]].)
  5. "RHD Road Network Bangladesh".

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