National Highway 1 (New)

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National Highway 1 (NH 1 - new numbering)
Uri, Baramulla, Srinagar, Kargil and Leh 535 km
It is also known as Srinagar-Leh Highway, is a National Highway entirely within the state of Jammu & Kashmir in North India that connects Srinagar to Leh in Ladakh and is maintained by Project Vijayak of the Border Roads Organisation. It is one of the only two roads that connect Ladakh with the rest of India, the other being Leh-Manali Highway. The Srinagar-Leh Highway was declared as National Highway in 2006.

The old Central Asian trade route Srinagar-Leh-Yarkand was also known as the Treaty Road, after a commercial treaty signed in 1870 between Maharaja Ranbir Singh and Thomas Douglas Forsyth.

422 km total length
www.nhai.org/Doc/23june12/NH_NH%20wise.pdf
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Coordinates:   34°24'56"N   75°51'17"E

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