Friendship Pass

Friendship Pass (Chinese

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

:友谊关,formerly 镇南关, Vietnamese

Vietnamese language

Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...

: Hữu Nghị Quan, formerly Ải Nam Quan (both the present Vietnamese and Chinese names mean Friendship Pass) is a pass in the border between the China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

’s Guangxi

Guangxi

Guangxi, formerly romanized Kwangsi, is a province of southern China along its border with Vietnam. In 1958, it became the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, a region with special privileges created specifically for the Zhuang people.Guangxi's location, in...

 and Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

’s Lang Son Province

Lạng Sơn Province

Lạng Sơn is a province in far northern Vietnam, bordering Guangxi province in China. Its capital is also called Lang Son, which is a strategically important town at the border with China and is northeast of Hanoi connected by rail and road...

. Vietnamese national road 1A starts from this gate, which lies less than 5 km north of the town of Đồng Đăng in Lang Son Province, ending in Nam Can Town in Ca Mau Province

Ca Mau Province

Cà Mau is a province of Vietnam, named after its capital city. It is located in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam, and is the southernmost of Vietnam's 58 provinces...

. China National Highway 322

China National Highway 322

China National Highway 322 runs from Hengyang, Hunan to Friendship Gate, Guangxi. It is 1039 kilometres in length and runs southwest from Hengyang towards Friendship Gate, which is on the China-Vietnam border.-Route and distance:...

 runs from here to Guangxi

Guangxi

Guangxi, formerly romanized Kwangsi, is a province of southern China along its border with Vietnam. In 1958, it became the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, a region with special privileges created specifically for the Zhuang people.Guangxi's location, in...

 Province and Hunan

Hunan

' is a province of South-Central China, located to the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting...

Province. This is one of the busiest border trading points of Vietnam.

According to Wikipedia in Chinese, it was built in early Ming dynasty with the name of Zhen Nan Guan (鎮南關 - South suppressing pass). 1953, its name was changed into Mu Nan Guan (睦南关 - South watching pass). 1965, its name was changed into You Yi Guan (友誼关 - Friendship pass).