Ho Chi Minh Highway

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Ho Chi Minh Road or Ho Chi Minh Highway (Vietnamese language: Đường Hồ Chí Minh) is a highway in Vietnam. It runs north-southern Vietnam, west of National Road 1A. The name of this highway deprives from Hồ Chí Minh as well as Ho Chi Minh Trail during Vietnam War, most of which this road roughly coincides with. It's a two-lane highway and is planned for 8-lane highway and will connect Cao Bang Province by the Sino-Vietnamese border to Ca Mau Province with the total length of 3,167 km. As of 2007, this road runs from Hoa Lac in Ha Tay Province to Ngoc Hoi in Kon Tum Province with a total length of 1,234.5 km.