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Mintaka Pass

The Mintaka Pass or Mingteke Pass or Mintika Pass is a mountain pass in the Karakorum Mountains, between northern and in . In ancient times, the Mintaka Pass and the nearby , 30 km to the west, were the two main access points into Gojal from the north.
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  • Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 4,479 metres
  • Description: mountain pass
  • Also known as: “Mingteke Daban”, “Mingteke Pass”, and “Mingtiege Daban”

Mintaka Pass

Latitude
37.00617° or 37° 0′ 22″ north
Longitude
74.85418° or 74° 51′ 15″ east
Elevation
4,479 metres (14,695 feet)
Open location code
8J9P2V43+FM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6051301903
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­saddle
Geo­Names ID
1114982
Wiki­data ID
Q605582
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Mintaka Pass” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Mintaka Pass”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەروازەی مینتاکا”
  • Chinese: “明铁盖达坂”
  • Chinese: “明铁盖达阪”
  • Chinese: “明鐵蓋達坂”
  • Chinese: “明鐵蓋達阪”
  • French: “col de Mintaka”
  • French: “Col de Mintaka”
  • German: “Mingteke-Pass”
  • Hebrew: “מעבר מינגטקה”
  • Hindi: “मिंटका दर्रा”
  • Italian: “colle di Mintaka”
  • Japanese: “ミンタカ峠”
  • Malayalam: “മിന്റാക്ക പാസ്”
  • Polish: “Mintaka (przełęcz)”
  • Polish: “Mintaka”
  • Russian: “Мингтеке”
  • Swedish: “Mintaka Pass”
  • Ukrainian: “Мінтака”
  • Ukrainian: “Перевал Мінтака”
  • Vietnamese: “Đồi Mintaka”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mintaka Pass”. Photo: Saad mohamed, CC BY-SA 3.0.