Wagah Border
Wagah Border is a border checkpoint in Amritsar II, Punjab. Wagah Border is situated nearby to the town Attari.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Wagah and Attari Sham Singh railway station.
Wagah
Railway station
Photo: Fahads1982, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wagah Railway Station is located in Wagah, Punjab, Pakistan. It is the last station in Pakistan on the Lahore–Wagah Branch Line and serves as the border station before crossing into India. Wagah is situated 1½ km south of Wagah Border.
Attari Sham Singh railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ekabhishek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Attari Sham Singh Railway Station is located in Amritsar district in the Indian state of Punjab and serves Attari and the Wagah border with Pakistan. In May 2015, Government of Punjab changed the name of station to Attari Sham Singh railway station after Sham Singh Attariwala who was general in the Sikh Empire. Attari Sham Singh railway station is situated 3½ km east of Wagah Border.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wagah and Attari.
Wagah
Photo: Mahak library, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wagah is a border town straddling the line between Pakistan and India, 29 km from the city of Lahore on the Pakistani side and 27 km from Amritsar on the Indian side. This is the only open and direct crossing point between Pakistan and India.
Attari
Town
Photo: Ekabhishek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Attari, also spelled Atari, is a village of Amritsar district in the Punjab state of India, 3 km from the Indo-Pakistani border at Wagah. It is situated 25 km west of the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, and is the last Indian station on the rail route connecting Lahore, Pakistan with the Indian capital Delhi. Attari is situated 3 km east of Wagah Border.
Wagah Border
- Type: Border checkpoint
- Address: Attari
- Location: Amritsar II, Amritsar, Punjab, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.60464° or 31° 36′ 17″ northLongitude
74.57311° or 74° 34′ 23″ eastElevation
214 metres (702 feet)Open location code
8J3PJH3F+V6OpenStreetMap ID
node 12069529032GeoNames ID
7626592
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In Other Languages
“Wagah Border” goes by many names.
- French: “Frontière de Wagah”
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