Torkham border crossing
Torkham border crossing is a major border crossing between the Pakistani city of Torkham and Afghanistan, located along the Grand Trunk Road on the international border between the two countries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: human settlement in Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Tar-Kkham”, “Tor Kham”, “Tōr Kham”, “Tōṟ Kham”, “Tor Kham Post”, “Torkham”, “Towr Kham”, “Tūr Kham”, and “تور خم”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Landi Khana and Torra Tigga.
Landi Khana
Railway station
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Landi Khana Railway Station is a disused railway station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located near the Pakistani town of Torkham, on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Landi Khana is situated 3½ km southeast of Torkham border crossing.
Torra Tigga
Railway station
Torra Tigga Railway Station is located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The station is on the discontinued Khyber Pass Railway line and does not have scheduled train services. Torra Tigga is situated 3½ km east of Torkham border crossing.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Torkham.
Torkham
Town
Photo: Syed533, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Torkham is a Pakistani town in Khyber District, that is the location of the Torkham Border Crossing with Afghanistan just to the west of the historic Khyber Pass.
Torkham border crossing
- Categories: human settlement and border city
- Location: Momand Dara District, Nangarhar, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Burmese to Uzbek—“Torkham border crossing” goes by many names.
- Burmese: “တာ့ခမ်ဂိတ်”
- Chinese: “托卡姆”
- Chinese: “托爾哈姆”
- Dutch: “Torkham”
- French: “Torkham”
- German: “Torcham”
- Hebrew: “מעבר הגבול טורקהאם”
- Hindi: “तोरख़म”
- Irish: “Torkham”
- Japanese: “トールハム”
- Japanese: “トルカム”
- Japanese: “トルクハン”
- Persian: “تورخم”
- Persian: “خمٔ سیاه”
- Portuguese: “Torkham”
- Pushto: “تورخم”
- Urdu: “طورخم بارڈر کراسنگ”
- Uzbek: “Torxam chegara punkti”
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