Towraghondi
Sign in to saveTorghundi (, ) or Turgundy () is a border town in northern Herat Province of Afghanistan. The town's main attraction is the Torghundi custom house and border checkpoint, which officially connects Afghanistan by road with Turkmenistan. Torghundi is the second checkpoint and border crossing between the two countries, with Aqina to the northeast being the other. Torghundi is connected by both a regular road and a 1520 mm gauge railroad with the neighboring town of Serhetabat in Turkmenistan. The city of Herat in Afghanistan is located about of driving distance south from Torghundi.
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- Locality
- تورغونډۍ
- Region
- ولایت هرات
- Country
- افغانستان
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
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- Torghundi
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- View of Torghundi in 2013
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- Afghanistan
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- bottom
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- Location in Afghanistan
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- Country
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- Province
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- Herat Province
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- District
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- Kushk District
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- Imperial
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- AFT
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- +4:30
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- 678
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Torghundi (, ) or Turgundy () is a border town in northern Herat Province of Afghanistan. The town's main attraction is the Torghundi custom house and border checkpoint, which officially connects Afghanistan by road with Turkmenistan. Torghundi is the second checkpoint and border crossing between the two countries, with Aqina to the northeast being the other. Torghundi is connected by both a regular road and a 1520 mm gauge railroad with the neighboring town of Serhetabat in Turkmenistan. The city of Herat in Afghanistan is located about of driving distance south from Torghundi.
The railroad at Torghundi was originally established in the early 1960s as a single track, and was upgraded in 2017. Torghundi has become the starting point of the Lapis Lazuli trade corridor.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Towraghondi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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