Taftan
Taftan is a trunk road and railway town in Chagai 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 18,500 residents
- Description: city in Balochistan, Pakistan
- Also known as: “Taftan, Balochistan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Koh-e-Taftan railway station and Boundary Pillar.
Koh-e-Taftan railway station
Taftan is a trunk road and railway town in Chagai 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. 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
- Categories: border city and locality
- Location: Balochistan, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
28.9495° or 28° 56′ 58″ northLongitude
61.588° or 61° 35′ 17″ eastPopulation
18,500Elevation
787 metres (2,582 feet)United Nations Location Code
PK TFTOpen location code
7JW3WHXQ+R6OpenStreetMap ID
node 287773419OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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، بلوچستان”
- Spanish: “Taftan”
- Turkish: “Taftan”
- Ukrainian: “Тафтан”
- Urdu: “تفتان”
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