Highest Paved International Border in the World
The Khunjerab Pass is the most astounding cleared universal outskirt crossing on the planet and the most elevated point on the Karakoram Highway. The roadway over the pass was finished in 1982, and has supplanted the unpaved Mintaka and Kilik Passes as the essential entry over the Karakoram Range. The decision of Khunjerab Pass for Karakoram Highway was chosen in 1966: China refering to the way that Mintaka would be progressively powerless to air strikes suggested the more extreme Khunjerab Pass.
On the Pakistani – regulated side, the pass is 42 km (26 mi) from the National Park station and checkpoint in Dih, 75 km (47 mi) from the traditions and migration post in Sost, 270 km (170 mi) from Gilgit, and 870 km (540 mi) from Islamabad.
On the Chinese side, the pass is the southwest end of China National Highway 314 (G314) and is 130 km (81 mi) from Tashkurgan, 420 km (260 mi) from Kashgar and around 1,890 km (1,170 mi) from Urumqi. The Chinese port of section is found 3.5 km (2.2 mi) along the street from the go in Tashkurgan County.
The long, moderately level pass is frequently snow-secured amid the winter season and as an outcome is commonly shut for overwhelming vehicles from November 30 to May 1 and for all vehicles from December 30 to April 1.
The reproduced Karakoram Highway passes through Khunjerab Pass.
Since June 1, 2006, there has been a day by day transport benefit over the limit from Gilgit, to Kashgar, Xinjiang
A supportive street sign giving drivers a point of view about the separations included
This is one of the universal outskirts where left-hand traffic (Pakistan – directed Gilgit-Baltistan) changes to right-hand traffic (China) and the other way around.
