Torkham Border
Torkham border crossing is a major border crossing between the Pakistani city of Torkham and Afghanistan, located along the Grand Trunk Road on the international border between the two countries.- Type: Border checkpoint
- Description: human settlement in Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Torkham” and “Torkham border crossing”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Landi Khana and Torra Tigga.
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 2 km southeast of Torkham Border.
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 2½ km east of Torkham Border.
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 Border
- Categories: human settlement and border city
- Location: Khyber Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.12174° or 34° 7′ 18″ northLongitude
71.09435° or 71° 5′ 40″ eastOpen location code
8J6H43CV+MPOpenStreetMap ID
node 3309508316Wikidata ID
Q7830301
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Burmese to Uzbek—“Torkham Border” goes by many names.
- Burmese: “တာ့ခမ်ဂိတ်”
- Chinese: “托卡姆”
- Chinese: “托爾哈姆”
- Dutch: “Torkham”
- French: “Torkham”
- German: “Torcham”
- Hebrew: “מעבר הגבול טורקהאם”
- Hindi: “तोरख़म”
- Indonesian: “Perbatasan Torkham”
- Irish: “Torkham”
- Japanese: “トールハム”
- Japanese: “トルカム”
- Japanese: “トルクハン”
- Persian: “تورخم”
- Portuguese: “Torkham”
- Pushto: “تورخم”
- Urdu: “طورخم بارڈر کراسنگ”
- Uzbek: “Torxam chegara punkti”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Trucks Rest Area and Khyber Pass.
Nearby Places
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