| Wakhjir Pass | |
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 Photo of the valley before the pass by Aurel Stein | |
| Elevation | 4,923 m (16,152 ft) |
| Location | Wakhan, Badakhshan, Afghanistan - Taxkorgan, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China |
| Range | Pamir Mountains |
| Coordinates | 37°05′14″N 74°29′03″E / 37.0872°N 74.4842°E |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 瓦根基達坂 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 瓦根基达坂 | ||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 瓦赫吉爾山口 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 瓦赫吉尔山口 | ||||||||||||
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| Persian | گذرگاه واخجیر Gozargāh-e Vākhjīr | ||||||||||||
The Wakhjir Pass,[1] also spelled Vakhjir Pass, is a mountain pass in the Hindu Kush or Pamirs at the eastern end of the Wakhan Corridor, the only potentially navigable pass between Afghanistan and China in the modern era.[2] It links Wakhan in Afghanistan with the Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County in Xinjiang, China, at an altitude of 4,923 metres (16,152 ft).[3] The pass is not an official border crossing point.[2] With a difference of 3.5 hours, the Afghanistan–China border has the sharpest official change of clocks of any international frontier (UTC+4:30 in Afghanistan to UTC+8, in China).[4] China refers to the pass as South Wakhjir Pass (Chinese: 南瓦根基达坂), as there is a northern pass on the Chinese side.[3]
- ^ Ludwig W. Adamec. Historical and political gazetteer of Afghanistan Vol. 1. Badakhshan Province and northeastern Afghanistan. Graz : Akad. Druck- und Verl.-Anst., 1972.p. 185.
- ^ a b "Wakhjir Pass". Google Earth. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
- ^ a b . 1963-11-22 – via Wikisource.
passing through South Wakhjir Daban (Called Wakhjir Pass on the Afghan map) at the elevation of 4,923 meters, North Wakhjir Daban (named on the Chinese map only)）
- ^ Bostock, Bill (27 June 2019). "Afghanistan shares a tiny 46-mile border with China — here's the intriguing story of how the 2 countries became neighbors". Insider. Retrieved 2021-11-14.