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Karakoram Highway
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international highway running through Pakistan, China
The Karakoram Highway is a major road that connects Pakistan and China through some of the world's most mountainous terrain. It matters because it serves as a crucial trade and transportation link between the two countries, facilitating commerce and cultural exchange across one of Asia's most remote regions.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- controlled-access highway
- Part of
- AH4
- Country
- Pakistan
- Located in
- Punjab
- Elevation
- 4693
- Image
- Karakorum-carretera-d08.jpg
- Length
- 1300
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- Commons category
- Karakoram Highway
- Commons gallery
- Karakoram Highway
- inception
- 1966-00-00
- road number
- N-35
- terminus location
- Kashgar
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Encyclopedic overview
The Karakoram Highway (Urdu: شاہراہِ قراقرم, Śāhirāh-i Qarāquram), also known as the KKH, National Highway 35 (Urdu: قومی شاہراہ ۳۵), N-35, and the China–Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1,300 km (810 mi) long national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit-Baltistan, where it crosses into China and becomes China National Highway 314.
Aerial View of the Karakoram Highway in 2021 The highway connects the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well as Gilgit-Baltistan with China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The highway is a popular tourist attraction and is one of the highest paved roads in the world, passing through the Karakoram mountain range, at at maximum elevation of 4,714 m (15,466 ft) near Khunjerab Pass. Due to its high elevation and the difficult conditions under which it was constructed, it is sometimes referred to as the Eighth Wonder of the World. The highway is also a part of the Asian Highway AH4.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karakoram Highway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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