Wakhan Corridor
The Wakhan Corridor is the panhandle of Badakhshan Province in the far northeast of Afghanistan, a long narrow area wedged between Tajikistan to the north and Pakistan to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: region with 12,000 residents
- Description: region in Badakhshan province in northeastern Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Vakhan”
- Neighbors: China, Pakistan, and Tajikistan
Wakhan Corridor
- Categories: salient and geopolitical corridor
- Location: Northeast Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Wakhan Corridor” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ممر واخان”
- Azerbaijani: “Vahan dəhlizi”
- Basque: “Wakhan korridorea”
- Belarusian: “Ваханскі калідор”
- Bengali: “ওয়াখান করিডর”
- Bengali: “ওয়াখান করিডোর”
- Bulgarian: “Вахански коридор”
- Bulgarian: “Коридор Вахан”
- Catalan: “corredor de Wakhan”
- Catalan: “Corredor de Wakhan”
- Chinese: “瓦罕走廊”
- Czech: “Vachánský koridor”
- Czech: “Vakhan”
- Czech: “Wakhan”
- Danish: “Wakhan-korridoren”
- Dutch: “Wachan-corridor”
- Esperanto: “Vaĥana Koridoro”
- Estonian: “Wakhani koridor”
- Finnish: “Wahanin käytävä”
- Finnish: “Wakhanin käytävä”
- French: “Corridor du Wakhan”
- Galician: “Corredor de Wakhan”
- Georgian: “ვახანის დერეფანი”
- German: “Wachankorridor”
- German: “Wakhan Korridor”
- German: “Wakhan-Korridor”
- German: “Wakhan”
- Greek: “Διάδρομος Βαχάν”
- Greek: “Διάδρομος του Βαχάν”
- Indonesian: “Koridor Wakhan”
- Italian: “Corridoio del Vacan”
- Italian: “corridoio del Wakhan”
- Italian: “Corridoio del Wakhan”
- Japanese: “ワハーン回廊”
- Korean: “와한 회랑”
- Latvian: “Vāhānas koridors”
- Lithuanian: “Vachano koridorius”
- Malayalam: “വാഖാൻ ഇടനാഴി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wakhankorridoren”
- Norwegian: “Wakhankorridoren”
- Persian: “دالان واخان”
- Polish: “Korytarz wachański”
- Polish: “Wachan”
- Portuguese: “Corredor de Wakhan”
- Pushto: “واخان دهلېز”
- Romanian: “coridorul Wakhan”
- Russian: “Ваханский коридор”
- Saraiki: “ﻭﺍﺧﺎﻥ ﺭﺍﮨﺪﺍﺭﯼ”
- Sindhi: “واخان ڪوريڊور”
- Slovak: “Wáchán”
- Slovenian: “Vahanski koridor”
- Slovenian: “Vakanski koridor”
- Spanish: “Corredor de Vaján”
- Spanish: “Corredor de Wakhan”
- Swedish: “Wakhankorridoren”
- Tajik: “Долони Вахон”
- Tamil: “வக்கான் தாழ்வாரம்”
- Thai: “ฉนวนวาคาน”
- Turkish: “Vahan Koridoru”
- Ukrainian: “Ваханський коридор”
- Ukrainian: “Коридор Вахан”
- Urdu: “واخان راہداری”
- Venetian: “Coridòjo del Vacan”
- Vietnamese: “Hành lang Wakhan”
- Western Panjabi: “واخان راہداری”
- Western Panjabi: “واخان لانگھا”
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