AH5

{{short description|East-west route of the Asian Highway Network}}

{{Infobox road

| country = ASIA

| type = AH

| route = 5

| map = AH5 Route Map.svg

| photo = Korday wind farm in the south- east of Kazakhstan.jpg

| photo_notes = AH5 in Kazakhstan

| direction_a = East

| terminus_a = Shanghai, China

| junction =

| direction_b = West

| terminus_b = Istanbul, Turkey

| countries = China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey

| previous_type = AH

| previous_route = 4

| next_type = AH

| next_route = 6

}}

Asian Highway 5 (AH5) is an east-west route of the Asian Highway Network, running 10,380 km (6,450 miles) from Shanghai, China via Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia to the border between Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul where it connects to AH1 and E80.

China

File:Guozigou Bridge.jpg

4,815 kmEconomic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, [http://www.unescap.org/ttdw/Publications/TIS_pubs/pub_2303/Full%20version.pdf 2003 Asian Highway Handbook] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414184019/http://www.unescap.org/ttdw/Publications/TIS_pubs/pub_2303/Full%20version.pdf |date=2012-04-14 }}, 2003, page 32

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Kazakhstan

Uzbekistan

677 km

Turkmenistan

1227 km

{{main|M37 highway (Turkmenistan)}} Farap - Turkmenabat - Mary - Tejen - Ashgabat - Serdar - Turkmenbashi

Gap

Azerbaijan

Georgia

489 km

Turkey

960 km

References