Salang Tunnel
The Salang Tunnel is a 2.67-kilometre-long tunnel located at the Salang Pass in northern Parwan Province of Afghanistan, about 90 km north of the nation's capital, Kabul.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tunnel
- Description: road tunnel in northern Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Kotal-e Tonal-e Salang”, “Kōtal-e Tōnal-e Sālang”, “Tūnali Sālang”, “Tūnel-e Sālang”, and “کوتل تونل سالنگ”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Salang Pass.
Salang Pass
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The Salang Pass is in Afghanistan on the road between Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif. It has been in use as a trade route between central Afghanistan and the northern region known historically as Bactria for at least 4000 years.
Salang Tunnel
- Categories: road tunnel and transportation
- Location: Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Salang Tunnel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نفق سالانغ”
- Azerbaijani: “Salanq tuneli”
- Azerbaijani: “Saləng tuneli”
- Catalan: “túnel de Salang”
- Catalan: “Túnel de Salang”
- Chinese: “萨朗隧道”
- Dutch: “Salangtunnel”
- Esperanto: “Tunelo de Salang”
- Finnish: “Salang-tunneli”
- French: “tunnel de Salang”
- French: “Tunnel de Salang”
- Hindi: “सालंग सुरंग”
- Hungarian: “Szálang-alagút”
- Irish: “Tollán Salang”
- Japanese: “サラン峠トンネル”
- Latvian: “Salangas tunelis”
- Lithuanian: “Salango tunelis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Salangtunnelen”
- Norwegian: “Salangtunnelen”
- Persian: “تونل سالنگ”
- Persian: “تونلٔ سالنگ”
- Polish: “Salang”
- Pushto: “د سالنګ تونل”
- Pushto: “سالنګ تونل”
- Russian: “Tunnel’ Salang”
- Russian: “Саланг”
- Santali: “ᱥᱟᱞᱟᱝ ᱥᱩᱨᱟᱹᱝ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tunel Salang”
- Slovenian: “Predor Salang”
- Spanish: “tunel de Salang”
- Spanish: “túnel de Salang”
- Spanish: “Túnel de Salang”
- Tajik: “Туннели Соланг”
- Turkish: “Sâlânk tüneli”
- Turkish: “Sâlânk Tüneli”
- Uighur: “سالانق تەشمەسى”
- Ukrainian: “Саланг (тунель)”
- Ukrainian: “Саланг”
- Urdu: “سالنگ سرنگ”
- Uzbek: “Solonq tunneli”
- Western Panjabi: “سالنگ سرنگ”
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