Kunjirap pass
| Kunjirap pass | |||
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 The pass from the Pakistani side |
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| Compass direction | southwest | North | |
| Pass height | 4693 m | ||
| region | Gilgit-Baltistan Special Territory ( Pakistan ) | Xinjiang Autonomous Region ( PR China ) |
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| Watershed | Kunjirap → Hunza | → Taxkorgan → Yarkant | |
| Valley locations | Karimabad , Sust | Kashgar , Taxkorgan | |
| expansion | Karakoram Highway | ||
| Built | 1978 | ||
| Mountains | Karakoram / Hindu Kush | ||
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 50 '54 " N , 75 ° 25' 25" E | ||
The Khunjerab Pass (Khunjerab Pass; Kunjirap La; Hongqilapu Shankou; Kunjirap Daban (official Chinese name); 红其拉甫达坂 ; Pinyin : Hongqilapu Daban ) is a mountain pass at the transition between the Hindu Kush and Karakoram .
It connects Xinjiang in China with Pakistan . With a peak height of 4693 m above sea level , it is one of the highest fortified passes in the world.
Over the pass that leads Karakorum Highway , which in Gilgit passing through the Hunza Valley over the Karimabad by Sust leads, from where it then around 120 km over the pass to the next Chinese village Taxkorgan are and a further 230 km to Kashgar . There has been a daily bus connection on this route since June 2006.
Efforts have been underway since 2007 to connect China and Pakistan with a railway line across the pass; The Kunjirap Pass, with the crossing of Pakistan's inland between here and the port city of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea , is a crucial component of the US $ 62 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, one of the six trade corridors on land One Belt, One Road project of the Chinese government under Xi Jinping .
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Chinese border gate
View towards Pakistan
Chinese and Pakistani border post
Karakoram Highway over Kunjirap Pass, 2007
Web links
- ilib.cn: Following the Route of Marco Polo-From Hongqilapu Mountain Pass to Dunhuang
- martinkessler-art.ch: Kunjirap Pass (PDF file; 203 kB)
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- George Nathaniel Curzon : The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus . Royal Geographical Society, London 1896. Reprint: Elibron, Boston 2005, ISBN 1-4021-5983-8
- John King: Karakoram Highway: the high road to China . Hawthorn, Victoria 1989, ISBN 0-86442-065-X
Individual evidence
- ↑ Road widening work has begun on 600 kilometers of the highway. ( Memento from January 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Syed Fazl-e-Haider: China-Pakistan rail link on horizon . In: Asia Times Online , February 24, 2007. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
- ↑ Jon Boone: A new Shenzhen? Poor Pakistan fishing town's horror at Chinese plans. February 4, 2016, accessed May 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Jon Boone: A new Shenzhen? Poor Pakistan fishing town's horror at Chinese plans. February 4, 2016, accessed May 19, 2018 .
- ^ Social Science Research Network (SSRN), papers.ssrn.com: What Is One Belt One Road? A Surplus Recycling Mechanism Approach (English, dt. "What is One Belt One Road? A surplus recycling mechanism approach")