Kunming-Bangkok Expressway

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Kunming-Bangkok Expressway (昆曼高速公路) is the first international expressway from China. It starts at Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan province in southwestern China, and ends at Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.

The expressway is approximately 1,900km in length, in which half of it is in China and about 250km is in Laos. It is jointly funded by China, Laos, Thailand and the Asian Development Bank. It stretches south from Kunming to Jinghong and cross the border at Jinghong into Laos. It traverses through jungle and highlands in southern Yunnan and Laos before entering Thailand, in which it continues southward until it reaches Bangkok.