Erkeshtam
Erkeshtam, called Irkeshtam in Chinese and Dungan, or Erkech-Tam in Uyghur and Kyrgyz, is a border crossing between Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang, China, named after a village on the Kyrgyz side of the border in southern Osh Region. The border crossing is also called Simuhana (斯姆哈纳), after the first settlement on the Chinese side of the border, but Erkeshtam is now the more common name used in both countries.
Key facts
- Mountain pass.name
- Irkeshtam Pass
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- Chinese border post at Erkeshtam.jpg
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- Chinese border post at Erkeshtam
- Mountain pass.elevation_m
- 2,950
- Mountain pass.location
- Kyrgyzstan and China
- Mountain pass.range
- Pamir Range – Tian Shan
- Mountain pass.traversed
- AH65 – I-585 – I-62 – G3012
- Mountain pass.map
- China Xinjiang Southern# Kyrgyzstan
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- top
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- yes
- Mountain pass.mapframe zoom
- 6
- Mountain pass.mapframe wikidata
- yes
Article
8 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Modern border crossing
- See also
- Notes
- Footnotes
- References
- External links
Erkeshtam, called Irkeshtam in Chinese and Dungan, or Erkech-Tam in Uyghur and Kyrgyz, is a border crossing between Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang, China, named after a village on the Kyrgyz side of the border in southern Osh Region. The border crossing is also called Simuhana (斯姆哈纳), after the first settlement on the Chinese side of the border, but Erkeshtam is now the more common name used in both countries.
Erkeshtam is the westernmost border crossing in China. It is one of two border crossings between Kyrgyzstan and China, the other being Torugart, some to the northeast.