Landi Kotal
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, borders the rest of Pakistan to the south and east, central Afghanistan to the west, and the Wakhan Corridor to the north. The region has a varied landscape including rugged mountains, valleys, hills and dense agricultural farms.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 33,700 residents
- Description: town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Also known as: “Lanḍī Kōtal”, “Landikotal”, “Landlandi Kotal”, and “Lwargai”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Khyber Pass and Landi Kotal.
Khyber Pass
Photo: Eaglesart1923, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Khyber Pass is the main route between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The pass is entirely within Pakistan. The nearest major cities on the route that goes over the pass are Jalalabad in Afghanistan and Peshawar in Pakistan, with Torkham as border crossing point.
Landi Kotal
Railway station
Photo: Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Public domain.
Landi Kotal Railway Station is a railway station in Landi Kotal, a town in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It lies near the border with the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan.
Landi Khana
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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 west of Landi Kotal.
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 is situated 4½ km northwest of Landi Kotal.
Landi Kotal
- Category: locality
- Location: Khyber Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.10053° or 34° 6′ 2″ northLongitude
71.14685° or 71° 8′ 49″ eastPopulation
33,700Elevation
1,064 metres (3,491 feet)Open location code
8J6H442W+6POpenStreetMap ID
node 58876734OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1172208Wikidata ID
Q1803018
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Landi Kotal” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لندي كوتال”
- Arabic: “لندي كوتل”
- Asturian: “Landi Kotal”
- Bengali: “লেন্ডি কোটাল”
- Cebuano: “Landi Kotal”
- Dutch: “Landi Kotal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لندى كوتال”
- French: “Landi Kotal”
- German: “Landi Kotal”
- Hindi: “लंडी कोतल”
- Italian: “Landi Kotal”
- Japanese: “ランディ・コタル”
- Panjabi: “ਲੰਡੀ ਕੋਤਲ”
- Persian: “لندی کوتل”
- Polish: “Landi Kotal”
- Pushto: “لنډي کوتل”
- Russian: “Ланди-Котал”
- Spanish: “Landi Kotal”
- Swedish: “Landi Kotal”
- Urdu: “لنڈی کوتل”
- Western Panjabi: “لنڈی کوتل”
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