AH5 is a east-west route of the Asian Highway Network

Asian Highway Network

The Asian Highway project, also known as the Great Asian Highway, is a cooperative project among countries in Asia and Europe and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific , to improve the highway systems in Asia...

, running 10,380km (16,705 miles) from Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

, China via Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

, Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

, Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

, Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...

, Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...

, Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 to the border between Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 and Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

 west of Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

 where it connects to AH1

AH1

AH1 is the longest route of the Asian Highway Network, running 12,845 miles from Tokyo, Japan via Korea, China, Southeast Asia, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran to the border between Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul.-Japan:...

and .

China

4,815 km

• G010

Shanghai 159km Wuxi 115km Nanjing

• G045

Nanjing
Hefei
Lu'an
Huangchuan
Xinyang
Nanyang
Xixia
Lantian
Baqiaoqu
Xi'an
Baoji
Tianshui
Dingxi
Lanzhou

• G312

Lanzhou
Wuwei
Zhangye
Jiayuguan
Anxi
Hami
Turfan

• G045

Turfan
Urmuqi
Kuitun
Jct. AH5/AH68

• G312

Jct. AH5/AH68 Horgos (Border of Kazakhstan)

Kazakhstan

1033km

• A-353 Khorgos (Border of China) - Koktal - Shonzhy
• A-351 Shonzhy - Almaty
• M-39 Almaty - Kaskelen - Torgap - Kordai (Border of Kyrgyzstan)
• Kyrgyzstan segment (see below)
• M-39 Border of Kyrgyzstan - Merke - Taraz - Symkent - Zhibek Zholy (Border of Uzbekistan)

Turkmenistan

1227km

• Farap
• Turkenabat
• Mary
• Tejen
• Ashgabat
• Serdar
• Turkemenbashi
• Caspian sea (ferry)

Georgia

489km

• Tbilisi
• Mtskheta
• Khashuri
• Senaki
• Poti ( – Ferry to Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine)
• Batumi ( – Ferry to Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine)
• Sarpi

Turkey

960km

• Sarp
• Trabzon
• Samsun
• Merzifon
• Gerede
• Istanbul
• Kapikule
• Border of Bulgaria