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National Route 1 (Vietnamese: Quốc lộ 1 (or abbrv.QL.1) or Đường 1), also known as National Route 1A, is the trans-Vietnam highway.The route begins at km 0 at Hữu Nghị Quan Border Gate near the China-Vietnam border, [1] runs the length of the country connecting major cities including Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City, and ends at km 2301.34 [citation needed] at Năm Căn township ...
A train stops at Huế station on North-South railway. For the most part, this 1,726 km (1,072 mi) long metre gauge line follows the coastline of Vietnam, beginning in Ha Noi, passing through the provinces of Hà Nam, Nam Định, Ninh Bình, Thanh Hóa, Nghệ An (), Hà Tĩnh, Quảng Bình (Đồng Hới), Quảng Trị (), Huế, Da Nang, Quảng Nam, Quảng Ngãi, Bình Định, Phú ...
1969 map of the Demilitarized Zone. The Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone was a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel in Quang Tri province that was the dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam from 21 July 1954 to 2 July 1976, when Vietnam was officially divided into 2 de facto countries, which was 2 de jure military gathering areas supposed to be sustained in the short term after ...
Da Nang or Danang [nb 1] (Vietnamese: Đà Nẵng, Vietnamese pronunciation: [ɗaː˨˩ n̪a˧˥ˀŋ]) is the fifth-largest city in Vietnam by municipal population. [6] It lies on the coast of the South China Sea of Vietnam at the mouth of the Hàn River, and is one of Vietnam's most important port cities.
The southern end of the Hải Vân Tunnel. The Hải Vân Tunnel, the second longest tunnel in Southeast Asia (after Singapore's 12.46 km (7.7 mi) long Kallang-Paya Lebar-Marina Central Expressway tunnel) and the longest in Vietnam at 6.28 km (3.90 mi), lies on Highway 1 between the two cities of Da Nang and Huế in central Vietnam.
Besides North–South routes, the station serves provincial routes such as to Huế, Quảng Bình, Vinh, Quy Nhon, and Ho Chi Minh City. Passengers have diverse options with different classes to any of these stations: odd numbers (E1, S1, S3, S5, S7 and SD1) go from the north to the south coded, even numbers (E2, S2, S4, S6 and S8) go from the ...
The entire route has 27 stations and assuming 300kph top speeds an express stopping pattern will make the journey from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City in 5 hours and 38 minutes, stopping only at Vinh, Da Nang, Nha Trang stations. An all stop high speed service pattern will take 6 hours and 51 minutes from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City. [14]
Rail transport remains relatively underused as a mode of transport in Vietnam. While road transport dominates the transport sector by far—accounting for 65% of freight moved as of 2006—rail transport accounted for only 4% of freight transportation in 2008, and 5% of passenger transportation, leading it to be considered the "least relevant" of all modes of transport in the European Union's ...