Karakoram Highway

N-35
Karakoram Highway شاہراہ قراقرم
Route information
Part of Asian Highway 4
Maintained by National Highway Authority (Pakistan) and Transport Department of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (China)
Length:	1,300 km (800 mi) Pakistan: 887 km (551 mi) China: 413 km (257 mi)
Existed:	1966 – present
History:	Completed in 1979, open to the public since 1986
Major junctions
North end:	Kashgar, Xinjiang, China China National Highway 314 (Khunjerab Pass–Kashgar–Ürümqi) Khunjerab Pass
	N-35 N-15
South end:	Hasan Abdal, Punjab, Pakistan
Location
Major cities:	Haripur, Abbottabad, Mansehra, Battagram, Besham, Pattan, Dasu, Chilas, Gilgit, Aliabad, Gulmit, Sust, Tashkurgan, Upal, Kashgar
Highway system
Roads in Pakistan

Karakoram Highway

Chinese name

喀喇昆仑公路

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Kèlǎkūnlún Gōnglù

Urdu name

شاہراہ قراقرم
śāharāha qarāqaram

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Kèlǎkūnlún Gōnglù

The N-35 or National Highway 35 (Urdu: قومی شاہراہ 35‎), known more popularly as the Karakoram Highway (Urdu: شاہراہ قراقرم‎) and China-Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1300 km national highway in Pakistan which extends from Hasan Abdal in Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit-Baltistan, where it crosses into China and becomes China National Highway 314. The highway connects the Pakistani provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan with China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The highway is a popular tourist attraction, and is one of the highest paved roads in the world, passing through the Karakoram mountain range, at 36°51′00″N 75°25′40″E / 36.85000°N 75.42778°E / 36.85000; 75.42778 an elevation of 4,693 metres (15,397 ft). Due to its high elevation and the difficult conditions in which it was constructed, it is referred to as the Eighth Wonder of the World. The highway is also a part of the Asian Highway AH4.