Khyber Pass
The Khyber Pass is the main route between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The pass is entirely within Pakistan. The nearest major cities on the route that goes over the pass are Jalalabad in Afghanistan and Peshawar in Pakistan, with Torkham as border crossing point.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Photo: Eaglesart1923, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Localities in the Area
Torkham
Photo: Syed533, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Torkham is a Pakistani town in Khyber District, that is the location of the Torkham Border Crossing with Afghanistan just to the west of the historic Khyber Pass. Torkham is situated 5 km northwest of Khyber Pass.
Khyber Pass
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: mountain pass connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Categories: rail mountain pass, mountain pass and tourism
- Location: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.094° or 34° 5' 39" northLongitude
71.1441° or 71° 8' 39" eastElevation
1,070 metres (3,510 feet)Open Location Code
8J6H34VV+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 3309507563OpenStreetMap Feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q191333Khyber Pass Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: بوابة خيبر
- Arabic: معبر خيبر
- Arabic: ممر خيبر
- Aragonese: Paso Khyber
- Armenian: Խայբերի լեռնանցք
- Azerbaijani: Heybər keçidi
- Bashkir: Хайбер үткәүеле
- Basque: Khyber ataka
- Basque: Khyber igarobidea
- Bengali: খাইবার গিরিপথ
- Bulgarian: Кибер
- Bulgarian: Хайберски проход
- Catalan: Khyber
- Catalan: Pas de Khaibar
- Catalan: Pas de Khyber
- Catalan: Pas del Khyber
- Catalan: pas de Khyber
- Cebuano: Khyber Pass
- Chinese: 开伯尔山口
- Chinese: 开伯尔隘口
- Chinese: 開伯爾山口
- Czech: Chajbarský průsmyk
- Danish: Khyberpasset
- Dutch: Khaiberpas
- Dutch: Khaybarpas
- Dutch: Khyber Pass
- Dutch: Khyberpas
- English: Khaiber Pass
- English: Khaybar Pass
- Esperanto: Kajbar-pasejo
- Esperanto: Kajbaro
- Esperanto: Ĥajbar-pasejo
- Esperanto: Ĥajbaro
- Esperanto: Ĥajber-pasejo
- Finnish: Khaibarsola
- Finnish: Khyberin sola
- French: Col de Khyber
- French: Khyber
- French: Khyber Pass
- French: Passe de Khyber
- Georgian: ხაიბერის გასასვლელი
- German: Chaiber-Pass
- German: Khaiberpass
- German: Khyber-Pass
- German: Khyberpass
- Greek: Πέρασμα Χαϊμπέρ
- Hebrew: מעבר ח'ייבר
- Hebrew: מעבר קייבר
- Hindi: ख़ैबर दर्रा
- Hindi: ख़ैबर दर्रे
- Hindi: ख़ैबर दर्रे
- Hindi: खायबर दर्रा
- Hindi: खैबर दर्रा
- Hungarian: Haibar-hágó
- Hungarian: Khyber-hágó
- Icelandic: Kaíberskarð
- Icelandic: Khyberskarð
- Icelandic: Kæberskarð
- Indonesian: Celah Khyber
- Italian: Passo Kyber
- Italian: Passo del Khaiber
- Italian: Passo del Khaybar
- Italian: Passo del Kyber
- Italian: Passo di Khyber
- Italian: Passo di Kyber
- Italian: passo Khyber
- Japanese: カイバル峠
- Japanese: カイバー峠
- Japanese: ハイバル峠
- Korean: 카이베르 고개
- Latvian: Haiberas pāreja
- Lithuanian: Chaibero perėja
- Luxembourgish: Khyber Pass
- Malay: Laluan Khyber
- Malayalam: Khyber Pass
- Malayalam: ഖൈബർ ചുരം
- Marathi: खैबर खिंड
- Norwegian: Khaibarpasset
- Norwegian Bokmål: Khaibarpasset
- Norwegian Bokmål: Khyber
- Norwegian Bokmål: Khyberpasset
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Khaibarpasset
- Oriya: ଖାଇବର ଗିରିପଥ
- Panjabi: ਖ਼ੈਬਰ ਦੱਰਾ
- Persian: تنگه خیبر
- Persian: دره خیبر
- Persian: درهٔ خیبر
- Persian: گذرگاه خیبر
- Persian: گردنه خیبر
- Polish: Chajber
- Polish: Khyber
- Polish: Khyber Pass
- Polish: Przełęcz Chajberska
- Portuguese: Khyber
- Portuguese: Passo Khyber
- Pushto: خيبر دره
- Pushto: د خيبر درہ
- Pushto: د خیبر درہ
- Romanian: Trecătoarea Khyber
- Russian: Хайберский перевал
- Russian: Хайберский проход
- Russian: Хиберский перевал
- Scots: Khyber Pass
- Serbian: Хајберски кланац
- Serbo-Croatian: Hajberski prijevoj
- Serbo-Croatian: Kajber
- Serbo-Croatian: Kajberski prolaz
- Serbo-Croatian: Khyber
- Serbo-Croatian: Khyberski prijevoj
- Serbo-Croatian: Khyberski prolaz
- Slovak: Chajbarský priesmyk
- Spanish: Paso Jáiber
- Spanish: Paso Khyber
- Spanish: Paso de Jiber
- Spanish: Paso de Khyber
- Swedish: Khyber Pass
- Swedish: Khyberpasset
- Tagalog: Silang ng Khyber
- Tamil: கைபர் கணவாய்
- Telugu: ఖైబర్ కనుమ
- Telugu: ఖైబర్ పాస్
- Turkish: Hayber Geçidi
- Ukrainian: Хайберський прохід
- Urdu: درّۂ خیبر
- Urdu: درہ خیبر
- Urdu: درۂ خیبر
- Uzbek: Haybar dovoni
- Vietnamese: Đèo Khyber
- Welsh: Bwlch Khyber
- Welsh: Khyber
- Western Panjabi: درہ خیبر
- Wu Chinese: 开伯尔山口
Other Places Named Khyber Pass
Localities in the Area
- Landi KotalTown
- Unknown land markingLocality, 5 km northwest
- Wali KhelVillage, 7 km southeast
- TorkhamVillage, 7 km northwest
- Faqirano KiliVillage, 13 km southwest
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