The Tribhuvan Highway () connects the outskirts of

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, the capital of

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, with Birganj/ Raxaul on the

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border. NH 28 and NH 28A links Raxaul with

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and other locations in India.

History

Known informally as Byroad, the Tribhuvan Highway is the oldest and the first highway of Nepal and it links

Naubise Naubise is a village development committee in Dhading District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 25621 and had 3239 houses in it. To Promote local culture Naubise has two FM radio s ...

, west of Kathmandu with the Indian border at Birgunj/Raxaul. It was named in memory of King Tribhuvan (1906–1955). Its construction was completed with Indian assistance in 1956, and it provided the first serviceable road connection with India. The first regular daily bus service on the highway was operated by Nepal Transport Service in 1959. The bus route ended at the railway station at Amlekhganj, from where travellers took the Nepal Government Railway (NGR) the rest of the way to Birgunj and Raxaul. Before Tribhuvan Highway was built, travelers used the historic trade route passing through Kulekhani,

Chitlang Chitlang (Nepali:चित्लाङ, Nepal Bhasa:चिलं/चिलिम]) is a village located in Thaha Municipality of Makwanpur District, Bagmati Province, Nepal. Religions of chitlang Geography Chitlang sits southwest of Kathmandu v ...

, Chandragiri Pass and Thankot.

Route

The best stretch is through the Terai region. Thereafter, it is an unending series of climbs and descents through the

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north of Hetauda. Its total length extends to some from north to south. It is as the crow flies from Hetauda to Naubise, but Tribhuvan Highway makes it an astonishing . At

, the Tribhuwan Highway intersects the Prithvi Highway. Daman on Tribhuvan Highway has probably the finest view of the

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extending on a good day from

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in the west to

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in the east. Pathlaiya is the junction point of the

Mahendra Highway Mahendra Highway (), also called East-West Highway () runs across the Terai geographical region of Nepal, from Mechinagar in the east to Bhim Datta in the west, cutting across the entire width of the country. It is the longest highway in Nepal ...

and the Tribhuvan Highway.

Kathmandu-Terai Expressway alternative

There are at least half a dozen routes to the Terai region via

Makawanpur Makwanpur District( ne, मकवानपुर जिल्ला; , a part of Bagmati Province, earlier a part of Narayani Zone, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Hetauda as its district headquarter, as well as ...

from the capital city, including Tribhuvan Highway, Kanti Highway, Ganesh Man Road, and Madan Bhandari Road. The four-lane fast track extending from the outer ring road in Kathmandu to Nijgadh in the Terai region will be the shortest and will only be . The track will have a tunnel of 1.3 km at Thingana of Makawanpur. It has been under construction since 2008.

References

Roads in Nepal History of transport in Nepal 1956 establishments in Nepal {{Nepal-transport-stub