National Highway 1, once a part of the old
Grand Trunk Road, is a 456 km-long stretch that links
Delhi with
Amritsar in
Punjab. Passing Amritsar, it then runs up to
Atari on India-Pakistan border.
Panipat, Karnal, Ambala, Rajpura, Ludhiana, Phagwara and Jalandhar are some major cities that lie along National Highway 1. Of its total length, 22 km is in Delhi, 180 km in Haryana and the rest 254 km falls in Punjab.
