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Karakoram Highway

Index Karakoram Highway

The N-35 or National Highway 35 (قومی شاہراہ 35), known more popularly as the Karakoram Highway (شاہراہ قراقرم) and China-Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1300 km national highway in Pakistan which extends from Hasan Abdal in Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit-Baltistan, where it crosses into China and becomes China National Highway 314. [1]

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Abbottabad

Abbottabad (Urdu, ایبٹ آباد) is the capital city of Abbottabad District in the Hazara region of eastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

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Adventure travel

Adventure travel is a type of niche tourism, involving exploration or travel with a certain degree of risk (real or perceived), and which may require special skills and physical exertion.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Pashto: Afġānistān, Dari: Afġānestān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.

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AH4

Asian Highway 4 (AH4) is a route of the Asian Highway Network which runs from Novosibirsk, Russia (on AH6) via Ürümqi, China (on AH5) to Karachi, Pakistan (on AH7).

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Aliabad, Hunza

Aliabad (Burushaski/علی آباد) is the administrative and commercial center of the Hunza District of Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan (formerly in the State of Hunza, Northern Areas of Pakistan).

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Asian Highway Network

The Asian Highway Network (AH), also known as the Great Asian Highway, is a cooperative project among countries in Asia and Europe and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), to improve the highway systems in Asia.

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Attabad Lake

Attabad Lake also known as Gojal lake(عطا آباد جھیل), is a lake in Gojal Valley, Hunza, Pakistan that was created in January 2010 by a landslide dam.

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Ürümqi

Ürümqi (yengi; from Oirat "beautiful pasture") is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the far northwest of the People's Republic of China.

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Balochistan, Pakistan

Balochistan (bəloːt͡ʃɪs't̪ɑːn) (بلوچِستان), is one of the five provinces of Pakistan.

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Baltoro Glacier

The Baltoro Glacier, at in length, is one of the longest glaciers outside the polar regions.

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Battagram

Battagram (بٹگرام, بټګرام) is the capital city of Battagram District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.

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Besham

Besham (بشام; also known as Besham Qala) is the largest town and commercial centre of the Shangla District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

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Burhan Interchange

Burhan Interchange is located in the west of Hasan Abdal city in Attock District, Pakistan.

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Chakragil

Chakragil (or Chagragil, Chakar Aghil, Kingata Tagh) is a major mountain in Xinjiang, China.

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Chilas

Chilas (چلاس) is a small town located in the Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan on the left side of river Indus.

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Chile Route 27

Chile Route 27 and other secondary roads as seen from Licancabur volcano. Chile Route 27 (Ruta 27 CH) is a main road in the northern portion of Chile.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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China National Highway 314

China National Highway 314 (G314) (sometimes referred to as Gansu Provincial Highway 314) runs southwest from Urumqi, Xinjiang towards Khunjerab Pass, which is on the northern border of Pakistan.

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China–Pakistan Economic Corridor

China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (پاكستان-چین اقتصادی راہداری; also known by the acronym CPEC) is a collection of infrastructure projects that are currently under construction throughout Pakistan.

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Chinese Cemetery (Danyor)

The Chinese cemetery, locally known as China Yadgar (چائنہ یادگار means "China Memorial") is a Chinese graveyard located in Danyor, about 10 kilometers away from capital city Gilgit across the Gilgit River.

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Dalbandin

Dalbandin (Balochi:دالبندین) is a city in District Chaghi, Baluchistan, Pakistan near the Iran and Afghanistan borders.

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Danyor

Danyor (Urdu:, Burushiski and دیّور) is a city in the namesake sub-division in district Gilgit lies across the river Gilgit in the outskirts of the capital of Gilgit-Baltistan.

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Dasu

Dasu or Dassu (Abasin Kohistani/Pashto/Urdu: داسو) is the district headquarters of Upper Kohistan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

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Dawn (newspaper)

DAWN is Pakistan's oldest, leading and most widely read English-language newspaper.

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Diran

Diran(دیرن)is a mountain in the Karakoram range in Nagar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

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Edicts of Ashoka

The Edicts of Ashoka are a collection of 33 inscriptions on the Pillars of Ashoka as well as boulders and cave walls made by the Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire during his reign from 269 BCE to 232 BCE.

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Eight-thousander

The eight-thousanders are the 14 independentIn making any "highest mountains" list, one needs to use a criterion to exclude subpeaks and only list independent mountains.

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Eighth Wonder of the World

Eighth Wonder of the World is an unofficial title sometimes given to new buildings, structures, projects, or even designs that are deemed to be comparable to the seven Wonders of the World.

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Eurasian Plate

The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate which includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Chersky Range in East Siberia.

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Frontier Works Organization

The Frontier Works Organization (فرينٹير وركس اورگيناأزيشن; abbreviated as FWO), is a military engineering organization, and one of the major science and technology commands of the Pakistan Army.

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Gilgit

Gilgit (Shina:, Urdu), known locally as Gileet, is the capital city of the Gilgit-Baltistan region, an administrative territory of Pakistan.

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Gilgit River

Gilgit River is a tributary of the Indus River, and flows past the town of Gilgit.

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Gilgit-Baltistan

Gilgit-Baltistan, formerly known as the Northern Areas, is the northernmost administrative territory in Pakistan.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region

The Kuhistani Badakhshan Autonomous Region (Вилояти Мухтори Кӯҳистони Бадахшон, Viloyati Muxtori Köhistoni Badaxshon; also known as Gorno-Badakhshan (after translit) is an autonomous region in eastern Tajikistan. Located in the Pamir Mountains, it makes up 45% of the land area of the country but only 3% of its population.Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2008, State Statistical Committee, Dushanbe, 2008.

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Gulmit

Gulmit (Wakhi/Urdu), also known as Gul-e-Gulmit, is a town that serves headquarters of the Gojal, also known as Upper Hunza, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan.

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Gwadar

Gwadar (Balochi and گوادر) is a port city on the southwestern coast of Balochistan, Pakistan.

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Gwadar Port

The Gwadar Port (گوادر بندرگاه; IPA: gʷɑːd̪əɾ bənd̪əɾgɑː) is a deep-sea port situated on the Arabian Sea at Gwadar in Balochistan province of Pakistan.

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Haripur, Pakistan

21044 Haripur (ہری پور) is the main city of the Haripur District in Hazara, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa in Pakistan, with Swabi and Buner to the west, some north of Islamabad and south of Abbottabad.

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Hasan Abdal

Hasanabdal (حسَن ابدال), frequently misspelt as Hassan Abdal, is a city in northern Punjab, Pakistan, located 40 km northwest of the country's capital city, Islamabad.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

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Hindu Kush

The Hindu Kush, also known in Ancient Greek as the Caucasus Indicus (Καύκασος Ινδικός) or Paropamisadae (Παροπαμισάδαι), in Pashto and Persian as, Hindu Kush is an mountain range that stretches near the Afghan-Pakistan border,, Quote: "The Hindu Kush mountains run along the Afghan border with the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan".

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Hunza River

Hunza River (دریائے ہنزہ) is the principal river of Hunza in Gilgit–Baltistan,Pakistan.

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Hunza Valley

Hunza (Burushaski: ہنزو, Wakhi, and ہنزہ) is a mountainous valley in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan.

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Indian Plate

The Indian Plate or India Plate is a major tectonic plate straddling the equator in the eastern hemisphere.

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Indus River

The Indus River (also called the Sindhū) is one of the longest rivers in Asia.

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Islamabad

Islamabad (اسلام آباد) is the capital city of Pakistan located within the federal Islamabad Capital Territory.

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Jammu–Baramulla line

The Jammu–Baramulla line is a railway line under construction to connect the Kashmir Valley in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir with the rest of the country.

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Juglot

Juglot or Jaglot is a town in Gilgit District, Pakistan, and is situated 45 km south east of Gilgit on the Karakoram Highway.

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Karakoram

The Karakoram, or Karakorum is a large mountain range spanning the borders of Pakistan, India, and China, with the northwest extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

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Karakoram Highway

The N-35 or National Highway 35 (قومی شاہراہ 35), known more popularly as the Karakoram Highway (شاہراہ قراقرم) and China-Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1300 km national highway in Pakistan which extends from Hasan Abdal in Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit-Baltistan, where it crosses into China and becomes China National Highway 314.

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Karakul (China)

The Karakul or Karakuli (lit. "black lake") is a lake located 196 km southwest of Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.

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Karimabad, Gilgit-Baltistan

Karimabad (كريم آباد), formerly known as Baltit, is the capital of Hunza Valley, in the Gilgit-Baltistan province of Pakistan.

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Kashgar

Kashgar is an oasis city in Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.

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Kashmir

Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Khunjerab Pass

Khunjerab Pass or (elevation) is a high mountain pass in the Karakoram Mountains in a strategic position on the northern border of the Pakistani region of Gilgit–Baltistan Hunza – Nagar District on the southwest border of the Xinjiang region of China.

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (abbreviated as KP; خیبر پختونخوا; خیبر پښتونخوا) is one of the four administrative provinces of Pakistan, located in the northwestern region of the country along the international border with Afghanistan.

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Kongur Tagh

Kongur Tagh or Kongkoerh (Uyghur:, Коңур Тағ; Хонгор Таг, Hongor Tag) (also referred to as Kongur) is at 7,649 m the highest mountain wholly within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

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Kulma Pass

The Kulma Pass or Qolma Pass, also referred to as Karasu Pass, is a mountain pass across the Pamir Mountains on the border between the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan and the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China.

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Ladakh

Ladakh ("land of high passes") is a region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir that currently extends from the Kunlun mountain range to the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan descent.

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Lahore

Lahore (لاہور, لہور) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Punjab, and is the country’s second-most populous city after Karachi.

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Landslide

The term landslide or, less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows and debris flows.

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Leh–Manali Highway

The Leh–Manali Highway (लेह-मनाली राजमार्ग Leh-manali rājamarg) is a long highway in northernmost India connecting Leh in Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir state and Manali in Himachal Pradesh state.

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M1 motorway (Pakistan)

The M1 motorway (موٹروے 1) or M1, is an east-west motorway in Pakistan, connecting Peshawar to Islamabad–Rawalpindi.

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M41 highway

The M41, known informally and more commonly as the Pamir Highway (Russian: "Pamirsky Trakt", Памирский тракт) is a road traversing the Pamir Mountains through Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia.

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Mansehra

Mansehra (Hindko/Urdu/Pashto) is a city located in Mansehra District in the eastern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

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Memorandum of understanding

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) is a type of agreement between two (bilateral) or more (multilateral) parties.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (MOFA or MFA) under the State Council of the Government of the People's Republic of China is an executive agency responsible for foreign relations between the People's Republic of China and other countries in the world.

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Mintaka Pass

The Mintaka Pass or Mingteke Pass or Mintika Pass() is a mountain pass in the Karakorum Mountains, between Pakistan and Xinjiang in China.

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Monsoon

Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.

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Mountaineering

Mountaineering is the sport of mountain climbing.

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Muztagh Ata

Muztagh Ata, or Muztagata (Uyghur: مۇز تاغ ئاتا, Музтағ Ата, literally "ice-mountain-father";; formerly known as Mount Tagharma or Taghalma, and Wi-tagh), is the second highest (7509 metres) of the mountains which form the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau (not the second highest of the mountains of the Tibetan Plateau).

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N-15 National Highway

The N-15 or National Highway 15 (قومی شاہراہ 15) is a 240 km national highway in Pakistan which extends from Mansehra to Chilas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

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N-5 National Highway

The N-5 or National Highway 5 (Urdu) is a 1819 km national highway in Pakistan, which extends from Karachi in Sindh province to Torkham in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

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Nagar Valley

The Nagar (نگر) is a valley near Gilgit Valley in the Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan.

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Nanga Parbat

Nanga Parbat (Urdu), locally known as Diamer, is the ninth highest mountain in the world at above sea level.

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National Highway 5 (India)

National Highway 5 commonly referred to as NH5, is a national highway in India running from West to East, connecting Firozpur in Punjab to the Sino-Indian border at Shipki La.

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National Highway Authority

The National Highway Authority (مقتدرہ قومی شاہراہ), abbreviated NHA, is a statutory body under the Ministry of Communications (MoCom).

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National Highways of Pakistan

National Highways of Pakistan (پاکستان کی قومی شاہراہ) are a network of toll highways in Pakistan, which are owned, maintained and operated by the National Highways Authority under the Ministry of Communications.

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Northern Areas Transport Corporation

Northern Areas Transport Corporation or NATCO is the largest transport company in Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan and Karakoram Highway, throughout the Northern Areas.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers

The Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers, (Urdu: ﺁرمى انجنيرينگ كور; Army Engineering Corps), is an active military administrative staff corps, and a major science and technology command of the Pakistan Army.

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Passu

Passu (پسو) is a small village located in the Gilgit Baltistan region of northern Pakistan.

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Patina

Patina is a thin layer that variously forms on the surface of copper, bronze and similar metals (tarnish produced by oxidation or other chemical processes), or certain stones, and wooden furniture (sheen produced by age, wear, and polishing), or any similar acquired change of a surface through age and exposure.

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Pattan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Pattan (پټن / پٹن) is the capital of Lower Kohistan District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

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Petroglyph

Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.

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Pilgrim

A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place.

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Punjab, Pakistan

Punjab (Urdu, Punjabi:, panj-āb, "five waters") is Pakistan's second largest province by area, after Balochistan, and its most populous province, with an estimated population of 110,012,442 as of 2017.

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Railhead

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Rakaposhi

Rakaposhi (راکاپوشی), is a mountain in the Karakoram mountain range in Northern Pakistan.

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Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi (Punjabi, راولپِنڈى), commonly known as Pindi (پِنڈی), is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

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Safar Hai Shart

Safar Hai Shart is a travelogue television show on-air on Express News.

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Shandur Top

Shandur Pass (شندور) is located in Ghizer District of Gilgit Baltistan Region in the North Pakistan.

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Shatial

Shatial is a transit station with archaeological significance on Karakoram Highway in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

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Silk Road

The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected the East and West.

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Skardu

Skardu (سکردو, script) is a city in Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, and serves as the capital of Skardu District.

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State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission

The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) is a special commission of the People's Republic of China, directly under the State Council.

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Stone carving

Stone carving is an activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone.

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Sust

Sost or Sust (سوست) is a village in Gojal, Upper Hunza, Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan.

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Tajikistan

Tajikistan (or; Тоҷикистон), officially the Republic of Tajikistan (Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhuriyi Tojikiston), is a mountainous, landlocked country in Central Asia with an estimated population of million people as of, and an area of.

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Tarim Basin

The Tarim Basin is an endorheic basin in northwest China occupying an area of about.

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Tashkurgan Town

Tashkurgan (Sarikoli) is the principal town and seat of Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, Xinjiang, China.

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Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County

Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County (sometimes spelled Tashkurgan or Tashkorgan) is a county of Kashgar Prefecture in western Xinjiang, China.

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Thakot

Thakot or Takot (تھاکوٹ; تاکوټ) is a tribal town on the Indus River in Battagram District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Tourist attraction

A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement.

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Track gauge

In rail transport, track gauge is the spacing of the rails on a railway track and is measured between the inner faces of the load-bearing rails.

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Ultar

Ultar Sar (also Ultar, Ultar II, Bojohagur Duanasir II) is the southeasternmost major peak of the Batura Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram range.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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Upal

Upal (Wade-Giles: Wu1p‘a4êrh3 Hsiang1, Xiao'erjing: ءُپَاعَر سِيْا, ئوپال ‍‍‍Upal) is a small town in western Xinjiang, China.

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Wakhan Corridor

The Wakhan Corridor (واخان دهلېز Wāxān Dahléz, دالان واخان) is a narrow strip of territory in northeastern Afghanistan that extends to China and separates Tajikistan from Pakistan.

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Wakhjir Pass

The Wakhjir Pass,Ludwig W. Adamec.

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Western Alignment

The Western Alignment refers to the portions of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) which are located in the Pakistani provinces of northwestern Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

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Xinjiang

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونى; SASM/GNC: Xinjang Uyĝur Aptonom Rayoni; p) is a provincial-level autonomous region of China in the northwest of the country.

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Redirects here:

China-Pakistan Friendship Highway, KKH, Karakoram Highway (KKH), Karakoram highway, Karakorum Highway, Karakorum Highway Realignment (China-Pakistan Friendship Tunnels), Karakorum highway, Kurakoran Highway, N-35 National Highway, N-35 highway (Pakistan), N35 National Highway, N35 highway (Pakistan), Shahrah-e-Resham, The Karakoram Highway, The Karakoram Highway (KKH), شاہراہ قراقرم, 中巴公路, 喀喇昆仑公路.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakoram_Highway

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