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Khunjerab Pass

Khunjerab Pass proper noun: a mountain pass connecting Xinjiang in China with Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan on the Karakoram Highway.

Proper noun

Khunjerab Pass or the Khunjerab Pass

  1. A mountain pass connecting Xinjiang in China with Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan on the Karakoram Highway.
    • A Chinese Government delegation led by Yang Chieh, minister of communications, left here by air today for Pakistan to take part in a ceremony to hand over the highway between Khunjerab Pass and Hallehgush that has been built with Chinese aid.1971 February 12 [1971 February 12], “PRC Government Delegation Leaves Peking for Pakistan”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 30, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from...
    • In 1971, a motor road was inaugurated between Sinkiang and Pakistan across Khunjerab Pass of the Karakorum Mountains.1972, Theodore Shabad, “Sinkiang”, in China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71, Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 313

Khunjerab Pass meaning in Urdu

Khunjerab Pass in Urdu

mountain pass
درہ خنجراب

Examples of Khunjerab Pass in a sentence

  • The rolling uplands at 5000 m near Khunjerab Pass on the Hunza-Sinkiang border are a favored habitat of Marco Polo sheep.1977, George B[eals] Schaller, Mountain Monarchs: Wild Sheep and Goats of the Himalaya (Wildlife Behavior and Ecology), Chicago, Ill....
  • The Karakoram Highway, which links China and Pakistan over the 15,400-foot Khunjerab Pass, winds through some spectacular gorges along the route of the old Silk Road.2013 October 15, “World's most dangerous roads”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2013:
  • On the Chinese side we drove up the 4,700-meter-high Khunjerab Pass from Kashgar - which was like driving through the Black Forest to Lake Titisee.2015 April 24, Frank Sieren, “Sieren's China: Beijing's 'Marshall Plan' for Pakistan”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 29...

Origin of Khunjerab Pass

Partial calque of Wakhi درہ خنجراب (literally “waterfall house valley”), ^((please verify)) from دره (“valley; crack; fissure”) + خون (“house”) + جراب (“creek coming from a spring or a waterfall”), or, 'Valley of Blood'.

Questions about Khunjerab Pass

What does Khunjerab Pass mean?
Khunjerab Pass means a mountain pass connecting Xinjiang in China with Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan on the Karakoram Highway.
What is Khunjerab Pass in Urdu?
Khunjerab Pass in Urdu is درہ خنجراب. See Khunjerab Pass meaning in Urdu.
How do you use Khunjerab Pass in a sentence?
The rolling uplands at 5000 m near Khunjerab Pass on the Hunza-Sinkiang border are a favored habitat of Marco Polo sheep.
What part of speech is Khunjerab Pass?
Khunjerab Pass is a proper noun.

Words near Khunjerab Pass in the dictionary

  1. Khun
  2. Khundongbam
  3. Khundrakpam
  4. Khuneary
  5. Khunjaoba
  6. Khunjerab Pass
  7. Khuns
  8. Khunti
  9. Khunu Leima
  10. khur
  11. Khuraijam

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