National Highway 218 | ||||
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218国道 | ||||
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Length | 1,067 km (663 mi) | |||
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From | Yining, Xinjiang | |||
To | Ruoqiang, Xinjiang | |||
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Country | China | |||
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China National Highway 218 (G218) runs from Yining, XinjiangtoRuoqiang, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. It is 1,067 kilometres in length and runs southeast from Yining towards Ruoqiang. The road starts at the Kazakh border. (West of Yining it may have a different number (?).) It passes Yining (Kulja) and follows the natural trade route east along the upper valley of the Ili River. It enters higher country and south of Urumchi turns south and crosses the Tien Shan mountains. It then enters the oasis country around Korla and Karashahr and then crosses the Tarim Basin along the old bed to the Tarim RivertoRuoqiang (Charkilik) on the south side of the basin. With highways 314 and 315 it forms a loop around most of the Tarim basin.
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China National Highway 112 runs around Beijing |
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