National Highway 5 is a highway of southern-central Burma. It connects Taungoo

Taungoo

-Administration:*Taungoo District Peace and Development Council - List of Six Townships*Taungoo Township Peace and Development Council*Taungoo Ward Peace and Development Council - 22 Wards*Taungoo Municipal*District and Township Immigration Dept...

 to Hopong

Hopong

Hopong is a town in the Shan State of eastern Burma. It is located in Hopong Township in Taunggyi District.-External links:*...

, east of Taunggyi

Taunggyi

-Transportation:The main access to Taunggyi is by road. A railway line that passes through Taunggyi was recently built in 1995, but at the moment it offers no passenger service. Regular railway passenger service to the rest of the country is through the town of Shwenyaung, twelve miles to the...

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The highway is fed by the National Highway 1

National Highway 1 (Burma)

National Highway 1 , literally "The Road to Mandalay ") is an important south-north flowing highway of central Burma and the busiest road in the country...

 at Taungoo at 18°56′31"N 96°26′36"E. It initially goes in the northeast-east direction and then southeast until just south of the town of Hpasawng

Hpasawng

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 when the highway forks to the north at 18°49′37"N 97°18′53"E. The highway then continues in a northerly direction and eventually joins the west-east flowing National Highway 4

National Highway 4 (Burma)

National Highway 4 is an important west-east flowing highway of central Burma. It connects the town of Meiktila in the Mandalay Division to Tachileik in Shan State in the east on the border with Thailand...

at Hopong at 20°48′2"N 97°10′25"E.