Attari-Wagah border

Attari-Wagah border or Attari-Wagha Sarhad) is the crossing straddling the line between and , taking the name of Attari in India and Wagah in Pakistan 29 km from the city of on the Pakistani side and 27 km from on the Indian side.
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  • Type: border checkpoint
  • Description: a border town in the Pakistani province of Punjab
  • Also known as: “Wagah”, “Wagah border border post”, “Wagha”, “Wahga”, and “Wahgah”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wagah and Attari Sham Singh railway station.

Railway station
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Railway Station is located in , , . It is the last station in Pakistan on the Lahore–Wagah Branch Line and serves as the border station before crossing into .

Railway station
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is located in in the state of and serves and the Wagah border with . In May 2015, Government of Punjab changed the name of station to after Sham Singh Attariwala who was general in the Sikh Empire.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Attari.

Town
Photo: Ekabhishek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also spelled Atari, is a village of in the Punjab state of , 3 km from the Indo-Pakistani border at Wagah. It is situated 25 km west of the Sikh holy city of , and is the last Indian station on the rail route connecting , Pakistan with the Indian capital .

Attari-Wagah border

Latitude
31.6047° or 31° 36′ 17″ north
Longitude
74.5729° or 74° 34′ 23″ east
Open location code
8J3PJH3F+V5
Wiki­data ID
Q502198
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Attari-Wagah border” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “ওয়াঘা”
  • Catalan: “Wagah”
  • Chinese: “印巴边界”
  • Chinese: “瓦加”
  • Chinese: “瓦嘎”
  • Chinese: “瓦格赫”
  • Danish: “Wagah”
  • Dutch: “Wagah”
  • French: “frontière Attari-Wagah”
  • French: “poste frontière de Wagah”
  • French: “Wagah”
  • German: “Wagah”
  • Hebrew: “ואגה”
  • Hindi: “अटारी-वाघा सीमा”
  • Hindi: “वागाह”
  • Hindi: “वाघा”
  • Hindi: “वाहगा”
  • Indonesian: “Wagah”
  • Japanese: “ワーガ”
  • Japanese: “ワガ”
  • Kannada: “ವಾಘಾ ಬಾರ್ಡರ್, ಅಮೃತಸರ್”
  • Malayalam: “Wagah”
  • Malayalam: “വാഗ”
  • Marathi: “वाघा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wagah”
  • Norwegian: “Wagah”
  • Oriya: “ୱାଘା”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਾਹਗਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਾਘਾ”
  • Persian: “واهگه”
  • Portuguese: “Wagah”
  • Russian: “Вагах”
  • Slovenian: “Wagah”
  • Spanish: “Wagah”
  • Tamil: “வாகா”
  • Telugu: “వాఘా”
  • Urdu: “واہگہ”
  • Uzbek: “Vagah”
  • Western Panjabi: “واگھا”

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