Karakoram Highway the lake by small vessels, to be reloaded onto trucks at the other end. In July 2012 Pakistan began constructing a revised route around the lake at a higher elevation with five new tunnels, with total length of 7.12 km, and two new bridges. The work was contracted out to the China Road & Bridge Corporation (CRBC) and was completed in September 2015—see Karakorum Highway Realignment (China-Pakistan Friendship Tunnels) below. At in length, the Pakistani section of the highway starts at Abbottabad, although the N-35 of which KKH is now part, officially starts from Hasan Abdal. The highway meets the
Hay River Highway "ruralized" highways in the N.W.T., with two subdivisions and one or two other clusters of homes. The highway is designated as a core route of Canada's National Highway System. Hay River Highway Highway 2, known more commonly as the Hay River Highway, is the shortest numbered highway in the Northwest Territories, and connects Hay River to the junction of Highway 1 at Enterprise. Its total length is , all of which is paved. south of downtown Hay River, there is a junction with Highway 5. The highway was originally a portion of the Mackenzie Highway; this status ended with extension