Taftan
Taftan is the Headquarter town in Taftan District, Balochistan, Pakistan. It is one of Pakistan's border crossings with Iran. It is by either road or rail over 500 km from Quetta.- Town with 18,500 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 787 metres (2,582 feet)
- Description: city in Balochistan, Pakistan
- Also known as“Taftan, Balochistan”“Taftan, Pakistan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Koh-e-Taftan railway station and Boundary Pillar.
Koh-e-Taftan railway station
Taftan is the Headquarter town in Taftan District, Balochistan, Pakistan. Koh-e-Taftan railway station is situated 4 km northwest of Taftan.
Boundary Pillar
Railway station
Boundary Pillar Railway Station is the border station between Iran and Pakistan. Boundary Pillar is situated 4½ km northwest of Taftan.
Taftan
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Latitude
28.9495° or 28° 56′ 58″ north
Longitude
61.588° or 61° 35′ 17″ east
UN/LOCODE
PK TFT
Open location code
7JW3WHXQ+R6
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Taftan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تفتان”
- Asturian: “Taftan, Balochistan”
- Catalan: “Taftan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تفتان”
- French: “Taftan”
- German: “Taftan”
- Japanese: “タフタン (バローチスターン州)”
- Japanese: “タフタン”
- Persian: “تفتان (بلوچستان)”
- Persian: “تفتان”
- Russian: “Тафтан”
- Saraiki: “تفتان”
- Sindhi: “تفتان تعلقو”
- Sindhi: “تفتان”
- Spanish: “Taftan”
- Turkish: “Taftan”
- Ukrainian: “Тафтан”
- Urdu: “تفتان”
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