Ho Chi Minh Road or Ho Chi Minh Highway (Vietnamese language: Đường Hồ Chí Minh) is a highway in Vietnam. Vietnamese ( tiếng Việt, or less commonly Việt ngữ) formerly known under French colonization as Annamese ( see Annam) Vietnam (ˌviːɛtˈnɑːm Việt Nam) officially It runs north-southern Vietnam, west of National Road 1A. National Road 1A ( Vietnamese language: Quốc lộ 1A (or abbrv The name of this highway deprives from Hồ Chí Minh as well as Ho Chi Minh Trail during Vietnam War, most of which this road roughly coincides with. For the city named after him see Ho Chi Minh City. Hồ Chí Minh (name The Ho Chi Minh trail was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam through The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia It's a two-lane highway and is planned for 8-lane highway and will connect Cao Bang Province by the Sino-Vietnamese border to Ca Mau Province with the total length of 3,167 km. Cao Bằng is a province of northeastern Vietnam. Geography Cao Bằng Province is centered on the town of Cao Bằng Cà Mau is a province of Vietnam, named after its capital city. As of 2007, this road runs from Hoa Lac in Ha Tay Province to Ngoc Hoi in Kon Tum Province with a total length of 1,234. Ha Tay ( Vietnamese: Hà Tây;; Hán Tự: 河[[wikt 西|西]] is a former Province of Vietnam, in the Red Kon Tum Province lies in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam and shares borders with Laos and Cambodia. 5 km.