Salang Pass
The Salang Pass is in Afghanistan on the road between Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif. It has been in use as a trade route between central Afghanistan and the northern region known historically as Bactria for at least 4000 years.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Pass with an elevation of 3,825 metres
- Description: mountain pass in eastern Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Kōtale Sālang”, “Kōtale Tōnale Sālang”, “Kowtal-e Sālang”, and “Salang Kotal”
Salang Pass
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Baghlan, Northwest Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Salang Pass” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ممر سالانغ”
- Basque: “Salang mendatea”
- Catalan: “pas de Salang”
- Catalan: “Pas de Salang”
- Cebuano: “Kōtal-e Sālang”
- Chinese: “萨朗山口”
- Czech: “Salangský průsmyk”
- Dutch: “Salang Pass”
- Esperanto: “Salang-pasejo”
- French: “col de Salang”
- French: “Col de Salang”
- French: “Kotal-e Sālang”
- German: “Salangpass”
- Greek: “Πέρασμα Σαλάνγκ”
- Hungarian: “Szálang-hágó”
- Italian: “passo del Salang”
- Italian: “Passo del Salang”
- Italian: “Passo Salang”
- Japanese: “サラン峠”
- Latvian: “Salangas pāreja”
- Lithuanian: “Salango perėja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kotal-e Salang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Salangpasset”
- Norwegian: “Kotal-e Salang”
- Persian: “كتل سالنگ”
- Persian: “كوتلٔ سالنگ”
- Persian: “گذرگاه سالنگ”
- Persian: “گردنه سالنگ”
- Pushto: “د سالنګ کوتل”
- Pushto: “سالنګ کوتل”
- Pushto: “سالنګ لويه لار”
- Russian: “Саланг”
- Slovenian: “Prelaz Salang”
- Swedish: “Salangpasset”
- Tagalog: “Salang Pass”
- Tagalog: “Silang ng Salang”
- Tajik: “Ағбаи Соланг”
- Tajik: “Кутали Соланг”
- Ukrainian: “Саланг”
- Urdu: “درہ سالنگ”
- Western Panjabi: “درہ سالنگ”
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