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The Durand Line (Pashto: د ډیورنډ کرښه; Urdu: ڈیورنڈ لائن; Dari: خط دیورند), also known as the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, is a 2,640-kilometre (1,640 mi) international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in South Asia. [ 1 ][ a ] The western end runs to the border with Iran and the eastern end to the border ...
Afghanistan, [ d ] officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, [ e ] is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, [ f ] Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east.
This criterion doesn't apply to templates which are transcluded by other pages, unless these transclusions were all done by the banned user in question. This is a list of the land border crossings of Afghanistan with its six neighbors, namely Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China. [1]
Geography of Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a landlocked mountainous country located on the Iranian Plateau, [6] at the crossroads of Central Asia [7][8] and South Asia. [9][10] The country is the 40th largest in the world in size. Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, located in the Kabul Province.
The Afghanistan–China border is a 92-kilometre-long (57 mi) [1] boundary between Afghanistan and China, beginning at the tripoint of both countries with the Pakistan 's federally administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, following the watershed along the Mustagh Range, and ending at the tripoint with Tajikistan.
The border begins at the tripoint with Turkmenistan in the Harirud river before proceeding overland just to the east of the Iranian town of Taybad.The border then follows a series of short straight lines, passing through the Daryache-ye Namakzar and the Daqq-e Patergan salt lakes; two ‘beaks’ of Iranian territory protrude into Afghanistan along this section.
The easternmost pass, as indicated above, is the Wakhjir Pass, which connects to China and is the only border connection between that country and Afghanistan. The corridor is higher in the east than in the west; (the Wakhjir Pass is 4,923 m (16,152 ft) in elevation) and descends to about 3,037 m (9,964 ft) at Ishkashim. [11]
The Afghanistan–Uzbekistan border is 144 km (89 mi) in length and runs from the tripoint with Turkmenistan to the tripoint with Tajikistan along the Amu River. [1] It is the shortest of Uzbekistan 's external borders. The city of Termez in Uzbekistan and the town of Hairatan in Afghanistan are the closest major populated centers to the border.