Sher Khan Bandar
Sher Khan or Shir Khan is a border town in the northern Kunduz Province of Afghanistan, next to the Panj River. The town's main attraction is the Sher Khan Bandar, which is a dry port and border checkpoint that officially connects by road Afghanistan with neighboring Tajikistan.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Locality
- Description: border town and a port in the Kunduz Province of Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Gizil Qala”, “Kyzylkala”, “Qezel Qal‘a”, “Qezel Qal‘eh”, “Qezel Qal’eh”, “Qizil Qal‘ah”, “Qizil Qal’ah”, “Qizil Qala”, “Sēċkhān Bandaċ”, “Sher Khan”, “Sherkhan Bandar”, “Shir Khan”, “Shīr Khān”, “Shir Khan Bandar”, “Shirhan”, and “قزل قلعه”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Panji Poyon.
Panji Poyon
Village
Panji Poyon, also known since the times of the Soviet Union as Nizhny Panj is a border checkpoint on the Tajik side of the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border. Panji Poyon is situated 3 km west of Sher Khan Bandar.
Sher Khan Bandar
- Categories: dry port and border checkpoint
- Location: Imam Sahib District, Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“Sher Khan Bandar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيرخان بندر”
- Basque: “Xir Khan Bandar”
- Catalan: “Shir Khan Bandar”
- Chinese: “謝爾汗班達”
- Chinese: “謝爾罕班達”
- Chinese: “谢尔罕班达”
- German: “Schir Chan Bandar”
- German: “Schirchan Bandar”
- Japanese: “シェール・ハーン・バンダル”
- Japanese: “シル・カーン・バンダル”
- Japanese: “シル・カーン”
- Japanese: “シルハン・バンダル”
- Japanese: “シルハン”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shir Khan Bandar”
- Persian: “شیرخان بندر”
- Persian: “شیرخانبندر”
- Pushto: “شیر خان بندر”
- Pushto: “شېرخان بندر”
- Russian: “Шерхан-Бандар”
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