Khyber Pass
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: mountain pass connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Also known as: “Khaibar Pass”, “Khaiber Pass”, and “Khaybar Pass”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Landi Kotal and Landi Khana.
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 northwest of Khyber Pass.
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 4½ km northwest of Khyber Pass.
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 5 km northwest of Khyber Pass.
Khyber Pass
- Categories: rail mountain pass, mountain pass, and tourism
- Location: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.094° or 34° 5′ 39″ northLongitude
71.1441° or 71° 8′ 39″ eastElevation
1,070 metres (3,510 feet)Open location code
8J6H34VV+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 3309507563OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q191333
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Khyber Pass” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوابة خيبر”
- Arabic: “معبر خيبر”
- Arabic: “ممر خيبر”
- Aragonese: “Paso Khyber”
- Armenian: “Խայբերի լեռնանցք”
- Assamese: “খাইবাৰ পাছ বা গিৰিপথ”
- Assamese: “খাইবাৰ পাছ”
- Azerbaijani: “Heybər keçidi”
- Bashkir: “Хайбер үткәүеле”
- Basque: “Khyber ataka”
- Basque: “Khyber igarobidea”
- Bengali: “খাইবার গিরিপথ”
- Bulgarian: “Кибер”
- Bulgarian: “Хайберски проход”
- Catalan: “Khyber”
- Catalan: “Pas de Khaibar”
- Catalan: “pas de Khyber”
- Catalan: “Pas de Khyber”
- Catalan: “Pas del Khyber”
- Cebuano: “Khyber Pass”
- Chinese: “开伯尔山口”
- Chinese: “开伯尔隘口”
- Chinese: “開伯爾山口”
- Czech: “Chajbarský průsmyk”
- Danish: “Khyberpasset”
- Dutch: “Khaiberpas”
- Dutch: “Khaybarpas”
- Dutch: “Khyber Pass”
- Dutch: “Khyberpas”
- Esperanto: “Ĥajbar-pasejo”
- Esperanto: “Ĥajbaro”
- Esperanto: “Ĥajber-pasejo”
- Esperanto: “Kajbar-pasejo”
- Esperanto: “Kajbaro”
- Finnish: “Khaibarsola”
- Finnish: “Khyberin sola”
- French: “Col de Khyber”
- French: “Khyber Pass”
- French: “Khyber”
- French: “Passe de Khyber”
- Georgian: “ხაიბერის გასასვლელი”
- German: “Chaiber-Pass”
- German: “Khaiberpass”
- German: “Khyber-Pass”
- German: “Khyberpass”
- Greek: “Πέρασμα Χαϊμπέρ”
- Hebrew: “מעבר ח’ייבר”
- Hebrew: “מעבר קייבר”
- Hindi: “खायबर दर्रा”
- Hindi: “खैबर दर्रा”
- Hindi: “ख़ैबर दर्रा”
- Hindi: “ख़ैबर दर्रे”
- Hindi: “ख़ैबर दर्रे”
- Hungarian: “Haibar-hágó”
- Hungarian: “Khyber-hágó”
- Icelandic: “Kæberskarð”
- Icelandic: “Kaíberskarð”
- Icelandic: “Khyberskarð”
- Indonesian: “Celah Khyber”
- Italian: “Passo del Khaiber”
- Italian: “Passo del Khaybar”
- Italian: “Passo del Kyber”
- Italian: “Passo di Khyber”
- Italian: “Passo di Kyber”
- Italian: “passo Khyber”
- Italian: “Passo Khyber”
- Italian: “Passo Kyber”
- Japanese: “カイバー峠”
- Japanese: “カイバル峠”
- Japanese: “ハイバル峠”
- Kannada: “ಖೈಬರ್ ಕಣಿವೆಮಾರ್ಗ”
- Komering: “Taytayan Khyber”
- Korean: “카이베르 고개”
- Latvian: “Haiberas pāreja”
- Lithuanian: “Chaibero perėja”
- Luxembourgish: “Khyber Pass”
- Malay: “Laluan Khyber”
- Malayalam: “Khyber Pass”
- Malayalam: “ഖൈബർ ചുരം”
- Marathi: “खैबर खिंड”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khaibarpasset”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khyber”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khyberpasset”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khaibarpasset”
- Norwegian: “Khaibarpasset”
- Oriya: “ଖାଇବର ଗିରିପଥ”
- Panjabi: “ਖ਼ੈਬਰ ਦੱਰਾ”
- Persian: “تنگه خیبر”
- Persian: “دره خیبر”
- Persian: “درهٔ خیبر”
- Persian: “گذرگاه خیبر”
- Persian: “گردنه خیبر”
- Polish: “Chajber”
- Polish: “Khyber Pass”
- Polish: “Khyber”
- Polish: “Przełęcz Chajberska”
- Portuguese: “Khyber”
- Portuguese: “Passo Caiber”
- Portuguese: “Passo Khyber”
- Pushto: “خيبر دره”
- Pushto: “د خيبر درہ”
- Pushto: “د خیبر درہ”
- Romanian: “Trecătoarea Khyber”
- Russian: “Хайберский перевал”
- Russian: “Хайберский проход”
- Russian: “Хиберский перевал”
- Scots: “Khyber Pass”
- Serbian: “Хајберски кланац”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hajberski prijevoj”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kajber”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kajberski prolaz”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Khyber”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Khyberski prijevoj”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Khyberski prolaz”
- Sindhi: “خيبر پاس”
- Slovak: “Chajbarský priesmyk”
- Slovenian: “Kajberski prelaz”
- Spanish: “Paso de Jiber”
- Spanish: “Paso de Khyber”
- Spanish: “Paso Jáiber”
- Spanish: “Paso Khyber”
- Swedish: “Khyber Pass”
- Swedish: “Khyberpasset”
- Tagalog: “Silang ng Khyber”
- Tajik: “Гузаргоҳи Хайбар”
- Tamil: “கைபர் கணவாய்”
- Telugu: “ఖైబర్ కనుమ”
- Telugu: “ఖైబర్ పాస్”
- Turkish: “Hayber Geçidi”
- Ukrainian: “Хайберський прохід”
- Urdu: “درہ خیبر”
- Urdu: “درۂ خیبر”
- Urdu: “درّۂ خیبر”
- Uzbek: “Haybar dovoni”
- Vietnamese: “Đèo Khyber”
- Welsh: “Bwlch Khyber”
- Welsh: “Khyber”
- Western Panjabi: “درہ خیبر”
- Wu Chinese: “开伯尔山口”
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