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The landslide shut the route to Kathmandu for 46 days until a new alternate route could be built for Rs. 15.5 million. [9] The landslides that closed it the summer of 2014 were called the Sunkoshi landslides , and the section of the highway near the Tibet border is especially prone to landslides.
China National Highway 318 (G318) is a trunk road in China that runs east-west from Shanghai in East China to Zhangmu on the China-Nepal border.It is the longest fo the China National Highways at 5,476 kilometres (3,403 mi) in length and runs west from Huangpu District, Shanghai towards Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, and ends in Tibet Autonomous Region.
The Prithvi Highway or NH17 (previously: H04)(Nepali: पृथ्वी राजमार्ग) is a 174-kilometre-long (108 mi) highway connecting Naubise of Tribhuvan Highway, 26 km from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and Prithivi Chowk, Pokhara, a tourist city in the western part of Nepal.
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] It passes through the countries of China, Nepal, [3] and India. It is the nearest Asian Highway to Mount Everest.
The China–Nepal border is the international boundary between the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China and Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. It is 1,389 kilometres (863 mi) in length and runs in a northwest–southeast direction along the Himalayan mountain range, including Mount Everest , the world's highest mountain ...
Everyone loves Google Maps... except China. Google seems to have locked down the U.S. mapping market; Google Maps won the distinction of being App Store's No. 1 free app just seven hours after its ...
Banepa is a major trade route to Tibet, with the Arniko Highway, the only highway that connects Nepal and China (Tibet), running through this town. Furthermore, BP Highway also passes through Banepa. Despite being a small town, Banepa is highly developed and serves as the major economic center east of Kathmandu. [15]
Google has worked with Chinese location-based service provider AutoNavi since 2006 to source its maps in China. [44] Google uses GCJ-02 data for the street map, but does not shift the satellite imagery layer, which continues to use WGS-84 coordinates, [45] with the benefit that WGS-84 positions can still be overlaid correctly on the satellite ...