Wagah
Wagah is a border town straddling the line between Pakistan and India, 29 km from the city of Lahore on the Pakistani side and 27 km from Amritsar on the Indian side. This is the only open and direct crossing point between Pakistan and India.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: border checkpoint
- Description: a border town in the Pakistani province of Punjab
- Also known as: “Wagha”, “Wahga”, and “Wahgah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wagah and Attari Sham Singh railway station.
Wagah
Railway station
Photo: Fahads1982, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wagah Railway Station is located in Wagah, Punjab, Pakistan. It is the last station in Pakistan on the Lahore–Wagah Branch Line and serves as the border station before crossing into India.
Attari Sham Singh railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ekabhishek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Attari Sham Singh Railway Station is located in Amritsar district in the Indian state of Punjab and serves Attari and the Wagah border with Pakistan. In May 2015, Government of Punjab changed the name of station to Attari Sham Singh railway station after Sham Singh Attariwala who was general in the Sikh Empire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Attari.
Attari
Village
Photo: Ekabhishek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Attari, also spelled Atari, is a village of Amritsar district in the Punjab state of India, 3 km from the Indo-Pakistani border at Wagah. It is situated 25 km west of the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, and is the last Indian station on the rail route connecting Lahore, Pakistan with the Indian capital Delhi.
Wagah
- Location: Northern Punjab, Punjab, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.6047° or 31° 36′ 17″ northLongitude
74.5729° or 74° 34′ 23″ eastOpen location code
8J3PJH3F+V5Wikidata ID
Q502198
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Wagah” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ওয়াঘা”
- Catalan: “Wagah”
- Chinese: “印巴边界”
- Chinese: “瓦加”
- Chinese: “瓦嘎”
- Chinese: “瓦格赫”
- Danish: “Wagah”
- Dutch: “Wagah”
- French: “Wagah”
- German: “Wagah”
- Hebrew: “ואגה”
- Hindi: “वागाह”
- Hindi: “वाघा”
- Hindi: “वाहगा”
- Indonesian: “Wagah”
- Japanese: “ワーガ”
- Japanese: “ワガ”
- Kannada: “ವಾಘಾ ಬಾರ್ಡರ್, ಅಮೃತಸರ್”
- Malayalam: “Wagah”
- Malayalam: “വാഗ”
- Marathi: “वाघा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wagah”
- Norwegian: “Wagah”
- Oriya: “ୱାଘା”
- Panjabi: “ਵਾਹਗਾ”
- Panjabi: “ਵਾਘਾ”
- Persian: “واهگه”
- Portuguese: “Wagah”
- Russian: “Вагах”
- Slovenian: “Wagah”
- Spanish: “Wagah”
- Tamil: “வாகா”
- Telugu: “వాఘా”
- Urdu: “واہگہ”
- Uzbek: “Vagah”
- Western Panjabi: “واگھا”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Wagah”. Photo: Mahak library, CC BY-SA 3.0.