Grand Trunk Road/AH 1

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GT Road :- In the 16th century, a Pashtun emperor Sher Shah Suri make this Road, His intention was to link together the remote provinces of his vast empire for administrative and military reasons. The Sadak-e-Azam (Greatest Road). In British Govt: it was rename by Grand Trunk Road.(GT Road)
it link the eastern and western regions of the Indian subcontinent, running from Bengal, across north India, into Peshawar in Pakistan.
From the Pakistan border the Grand Trunk Road continues north through Lahore via Gujranwala, Gujrat, Jhelum, Rawalpindi, Attock District and Nowshera and finally runs into Peshawar Pakistan.
The total length is 2,500 km.

AH 1:- AH1 (Asian Hightway)is the longest route of the Asian Highway Network(AH1-AH87), running (20,557km) from Tokyo, Japan via Korea, China, Southeast Asia and India to the border between Iran ,Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul. the GT Road is a part of AH 1
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Coordinates:   31°35'30"N   74°27'1"E
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