Wagah
Sign in to saveWagah (; ; ), also spelled Wagha or Wahga, is a village and union council (UC 181) located in the Wahga Zone near Lahore City District, Pakistan. The town is famous for the Wagah border ceremony and also serves as a goods transit terminal and a railway station between Pakistan and India.
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- Wagah
- Settlement.official_name
- Wahga
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- Union Council of Pakistan
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- File:Wagah_border_ceremony2.jpg
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- 300px
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- The evening flag lowering ceremony at the Pakistan–India international border near Wagah
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- Wagah-Attari (OpenStreetMap).png
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- 300px
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- Location of Wagah
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- Punjab Pakistan#Pakistan
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- bottom
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- 300
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- Location in Pakistan
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- Country
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- District
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- Lahore
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- Zone
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Wahga Zone
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Wagah (; ; ), also spelled Wagha or Wahga, is a village and union council (UC 181) located in the Wahga Zone near Lahore City District, Pakistan. The town is famous for the Wagah border ceremony and also serves as a goods transit terminal and a railway station between Pakistan and India.
Wagah is situated west of the India-Pakistan border and lies on the historic Grand Trunk Road between Lahore and Amritsar in India. The border is located from Lahore and from Amritsar. It is also from the bordering village of Attari in India. The Wagah flag-lowering ceremony – by the border security personnel of Pakistan (Pakistan Rangers) and India (Border Security Force) has been taking place here every evening since 1959.