China National Highway 209

China National Highway 209 (G209) runs from Sonid Left Banner, Inner Mongolia to Beihai, Guangxi province. It is 3,435 kilometres in length and runs south from Huhhot towards Shanxi province, Henan province, Hubei province, Hunan province, and ends in Guangxi province.

National Highway 209
209国道
Route information
Length	3,435 km (2,134 mi)
Major junctions
From	Sonid Left Banner, Inner Mongolia
To	Beihai, Guangxi
Location
Country	China
Highway system
National Trunk Highway System Primary Auxiliary
← G208 → G210

Highway 209 climbing from the Liangtai River valley (Gaoqiao town) toward Wanchaoshan Mt (Wujiaping), in Xingshan County, Hubei

Despite the "National Highway" designation, G209 is not of uniform quality throughout its length.^[1] For example, as of 2009, the 20-kilometer section north of Badong is nothing but a very poor dirt road. Nonetheless, even that section is of importance for the national highway system: it is used e.g. by long-distance buses plying the route between Badong and points east. Many parts of the Muyu to Hongping section (in Hubei's Shennongjia Forestry District) are not much better. On the other hand, the section from the Shennongjia National Park entry to Muyu to Baishahe Village (in Nanyang Town, Xingshan County) is part of a recently upgraded Yichang-Shennongjia Highway.

Route and distance

 

Near Wenshui village (Hongping Town, Shennongjia)

 

Junction with a Hubei provincial highway in Baishahe Village, Nanyang Town, Xingshan County, Hubei. For the next 52 km to the north (to Muyu) G209 will follow the Xiangping River, doubling as part of the Yichang-Shennongjia Highway; for the 72 km to the southwest, it will be crossing two mountain ranges to get to Badong

 

A not-yet-improved section of G209 just north of Badong

 

Crossing the Yangtze on the Badong Bridge

Route and distance

City Distance (km) Huhhot, Inner Mongolia 0 Horinger, Inner Mongolia 57 Qingshuihe, Inner Mongolia 136 Pianguan, Shanxi 231 Wuzhai, Shanxi 312 Kelan, Shanxi 351 Lanxian, Shanxi 419 Fangshan, Shanxi 485 Lishi, Shanxi 531 Zhongyang, Shanxi 558 Jiaokou, Shanxi 605 Xixian, Shanxi 652 Daning, Shanxi 692 Jixian, Shanxi 744 Xiangning, Shanxi 774 Hejin, Shanxi 836 Linyi County, Shanxi 891 Yuncheng, Shanxi 911 Pinglu, Shanxi 960 Sanmenxia, Henan 968 Lingbao, Henan 1028 Lushi, Henan 1109 Xixia, Henan 1230 Xixian, Henan 1304 Yunxian, Hubei 1366 Shiyan, Hubei 1398 Fangxian, Hubei 1501 Muyu, Hubei Nanyang Town, Hubei Badong, Hubei 1775 Jianshi, Hubei 1923 Enshi, Hubei 1978 Xuan'en, Hubei 2068 Laifeng, Hubei 2158 Longshan, Hunan 2167 Yongshun, Hunan 2224 Baojing, Hunan 2281 Huayuan, Hunan 2307 Jishou, Hunan 2377 Fenghuang, Hunan 2431 Mayang, Hunan 2466 Huaihua, Hunan 2525 Zhongfang, Hunan 2544 Hongjiang, Hunan 2575 Huitong, Hunan 2627 Jingzhou, Hunan 2667 Tongdao, Hunan 2748 Sanjiang, Guangxi 2826 Rong'an, Guangxi 2909 Liuzhou, Guangxi 3028 Wuxuan, Guangxi 3123 Lingshan, Guangxi 3286 Hepu, Guangxi 3407 Beihai, Guangxi 3435

Image gallery

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  Victory Bridge (built 1970, on the Yema He River, south of Hongping Town, Shennongjia) glorifies the victory of the Cultural Revolution

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  Improvements in progress ... (Wenshui Village)

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  Hairpin turns are equipped with mirrors on the well-maintained section south of Yazikou Junction (main access to Shennongjia National Nature Reserve)

See also

• China National Highways

References

1. See e.g. the characterization of the China National Highway 318 and China National Highway 209 as "unstable and unsafe" in: Yichang-Wanzhou Railway (SEIA) 2009-08-07 at the Wayback Machine (Asian Development Bank, June 2003), p.6

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