6 Asian highways in India you probably don't know about

The Myawaddy-Thinggan Nyenaung-Kawkareik section of the Asian Highway Network that connects India and Thailand via Myanmar has been opened for public use. Under the Asian Highway (AH) Network, India has total 11,432 kilometres of road length. The new International highway runs from Moreh in Manipur, India, to Maesot in Thailand via Myanmar's Tamu, Mandalay and Myawaddy. The new highway will not only improve trading links between Myanmar and Thailand but it would also prove beneficial for the people living in the region.

Six sections of the AH network passes through India. Here are some details about those routes:

• AH42:
  
   
  The length of the road is 3,754km. It connects Lanzhou, the capital of  Gansu Province, China to Barhi in Jharkhand. This is the nearest Asian highway to Mount Everest and it passes through Lhasa in Tibet and Kathmandu in Nepal.

• AH43:
  
   
  This road is 3,024km long. It connects Agra to Matara in Sri Lanka. To reach Sri Lanka via this road, one needs to take a ferry ride from Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu.

• AH45:
  
  
  
  The 2,030-km road connects Kolkata to Bengaluru. The road provides one with a beautiful view from the East Coast. A plan to extend it from Doha in Qutar to Jakarta, Indonesia, is under way, and it may get done by 2030.

• AH46: 
  
  Named as Great Eastern Highway in India, this 1,967-km road connects Hazirah in Gujarat to Howrah in West Bengal via Surat and Jalgaon. The road crosses five states such as West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.

• AH47:
  
  
  
  The road's length is 2,057 km. It runs from Gwalior to Bengaluru. The road passes through cities such as Dhule, Thane, Mumbai and Belgaum.

• AH48:
  
  The 90-km stretch, locally known as the SAARC Road, connects Phuentsholing in Bhutan to Indo-Bangladesh border point at Changrabandha in Cooch Behar, West Bengal via Dooars. Some parts of this road  is still under construction.