Asian Highway 42 (AH42) is a route of the Asian Highway Network, running 3,754 kilometres (2,333 mi) from AH5 in Lanzhou, China[1] to AH1 in Barhi, India.[2]
Passes through China, Nepal,[3] and India, it is the nearest Asian Highway to Mount Everest.
More than half of the route, from Lhasa to Lanzhou in China, is labelled as a "Potential Asian Highway."[4]
China
It passes through the following cities in China
G6: Lanzhou - Xining - Golmud - Lhasa (when complete)
- At the moment, Golmud - Nagqu uses G109.
- At the moment, Golmud - Nagqu uses
- G318: Lhasa - Zhangmu
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Nepal
Map of AH42 in Nepal
- NH34 (Araniko Highway): Kodari - Kathmandu
- NH41 (Tribhuvan Highway): Kathmandu - Narayangarh (AH2) - Pathlaiya (AH2) - Birgunj
India
Map of AH42 in India
- NH 527D Raxaul - Motihari - pipra kothi, Mehsi
- NH 27 Pipra Kothi - Mehsi - Muzaffarpur
- NH 22 Muzaffarpur
- NH 122 Muzaffarpur - Barauni
- NH 31 Barauni - Barh - Bakhtiarpur
- NH 20 Bakhtiarpur - Bihar Sharif - Nawada - Barhi
References
- ^ Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2003 Asian Highway Handbook Archived 2012-04-14 at the Wayback Machine, 2003, page 32
- ^ Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2003 Asian Highway Handbook Archived 2012-04-14 at the Wayback Machine, 2003, page 41
- ^ Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2003 Asian Highway Handbook Archived 2012-04-14 at the Wayback Machine, 2003, page 78
- ^ China AH map, Asian Highway Database: AH Network in Member Countries Archived 2005-11-23 at the Wayback Machine