Ho Chi Minh Road or Ho Chi Minh Highway () is a highway in Vietnam. It runs from the north to the south of Vietnam, west of National Route 1. The highway was named after HỠChàMinh.
The route roughly coincides with the Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War. It is a two-lane highway and is planned to become an 8-lane highway and it will connect Cao Bằng province by the Sino-Vietnamese border to CàMau province with the total length of 2,436 km. As of 2007, this road runs from Hoa Lac in Hanoi to Ngoc Hoi in Kon Tum province with a total length of 1,234.5 km.
In Village number 5, Xuân Trạch commune, Bá» Trạch district, Quảng Bình province, the road divides (QL15-QL16 intersection) into two separate roads: ÃÂðá»Âng Há» ChàMinh ÃÂông (Ho Chi Minh Highway East) and ÃÂðá»Âng Há» ChàMinh Tây (Ho Chi Minh Highway West). ÃÂðá»Âng Há» ChàMinh ÃÂông is a well-traveled road with many trucks, towns and restaurants along it. There are few steep hills on the ÃÂðá»Âng Há» ChàMinh ÃÂông, with the exception of the portion of the highway in Quảng Nam just before it merges with ÃÂðá»Âng Há» ChàMinh Tây. Conversely, ÃÂðá»Âng Há» ChàMinh Tây cuts through extremely mountainous areas with steep hills and few gas stations. Consequently, all heavy traffic avoids these portion of ÃÂðá»Âng Há» ChàMinh Tây. At times, heavy rain washes out small segments of ÃÂðá»Âng Há» ChàMinh Tây, making it impassable to trucks and cars. Motorists must be alert to domestic goats, buffalo and cows grazing along the roadside. The roads reconnect at the intersection with National road and Asian highway QL9/AH16 and QL14 in ÃÂa Krông district, Quảng Trá» province.
When the highway was first built, a small portion of ÃÂðá»Âng Há» ChàMinh Tây within Thừa Thiên Huế and Quảng Nam passed through Laos, but the highway now stays completely within Vietnam's borders.
A new expressway (CT.02) is planned on roughly the same route as the Ho Chi Minh Highway, connecting Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City along the west of Vietnam.