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| National Highway 9 | ||||
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Schematic map of National Highways in India | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Part of | ||||
| Length | 954 km (593 mi) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| east end | Gori Ganga Bridge atAskot inPithoragarh(Kumaun) District,Uttarakhand | |||
| Major intersections | List
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| west end | Fazilka,Punjab | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | India | |||
| States | Punjab,Haryana,Delhi,Uttar Pradesh,Uttarakhand, | |||
| Primary destinations | Fazilka,Malout (Punjab) Sirsa-Hisar-Rohtak (Haryana) Delhi Ghaziabad-Moradabad-Rampur (Uttar Pradesh) Rudrapur-Sitarganj-Tanakpur-Pithoragarh (Uttarakhand), Gori Ganga BridgeAskot(Kailash Mansarovar Road). | |||
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National Highway 9 (NH 9) is aNational Highway inIndia in east-west direction. It starts atFazilka in Punjab and ends at Gori Ganga Bridge atAskot in Pithoragarh (Kumaun) District of Uttarakhand[1] inPithoragarh district inUttarakhand. It passes through the states ofPunjab,Haryana,Delhi,Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.[2] Afterrenumbering of all national highways byNational Highway Authority of India in 2010, the current NH 9 was formed by merging segments of five separate national highways in 2010; these wereOld NH 10 (Fazilka-Delhi section), Old NH 24 (Delhi-Rampur section), Old NH 87 (Rampur-Rudrapur section), Old NH 74 (Rudrapur-Sitarganj-Khatima section) and Old NH 125 (Tanakpur-Pithoragarh section).
Starting at Fazilka in Punjab and ending at Gori Ganga BridgeAskot in the State of Uttarakhand, it passes connects several important cities in five states inNorth India (from west towards east):[3][4] The highway runs 954 kilometres (593 mi) end to end and is also known as Kailash Mansarovar Road in Uttarakhand.