China National Highway 215 (G215) (sometimes referred to as Gansu Provincial Highway 215) runs from
Hongliuyuan
Hongliuyuan (), also known as Liuyuan Town (), is a District of Guazhou in Gansu province of China.
Hongliuyuan was the name of a post station in the area in ancient times. In 1958, Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China set up ...
,
Gansu
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...
to
Yushu,
Qinghai
Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...
. It was originally 641 kilometres in length and ran south from
Hongliuyuan
Hongliuyuan (), also known as Liuyuan Town (), is a District of Guazhou in Gansu province of China.
Hongliuyuan was the name of a post station in the area in ancient times. In 1958, Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China set up ...
towards
Golmud
Golmud, also known by various other romanizations, is a county-level city in the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province, China. It is now the second-largest city in Qinghai and the third largest in the Tibetan Pla ...
. As part of the
2013 National Highway extension plan, it was extended to
Yushu via
Qumarlêb County
Qumarlêb County (; ) is a county in the northeast of the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, south-central Qinghai province, China.
Geography and climate
With an elevation of around , Qumarlêb County has an alpine climate (Köppen ''ETH''), ...
and
Zhidoi County }
''Zhidoi County'' (, ) is a county in the west and southwest of Qinghai Province, China, bordering the autonomous regions of Tibet to the west and Xinjiang to the northwest. It is under the administration of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
...
, superseding part of Qinghai provincial highway S308.
Route and distance
See also
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China National Highways
The China National Highways (CNH/Guodao) () is a network of trunk roads across mainland China. Apart from the expressways of China that are planned and constructed later, most of the CNH are not controlled-access highways.
History
The bui ...
References
External links
Official website of Ministry of Transport of PRC
215
Year 215 ( CCXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laetus and Sulla (or, less frequently, year 968 ''Ab urbe condita''). ...
Transport in Qinghai
Transport in Gansu
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