Qilla Abdullah District

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Qilla Abdullah District is an administrative district in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, located near the Afghan border and known as a key transit and trade corridor between Quetta and Chaman.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative district
district
administrativeDivisionOf Government of Balochistan
borderingDistrict Chaman District
Pishin District
Quetta
surface form: Quetta District
borderRegion Afghanistan–Pakistan border
surface form: Pakistan–Afghanistan borderlands
capital Qilla Abdullah District self-linksurface differs
surface form: Qilla Abdullah
containsSettlement Chaman
Gulistan
Qilla Abdullah District self-linksurface differs
surface form: Qilla Abdullah
country Pakistan
ethnicGroup Pashtuns
governedBy Deputy Commissioner of Qilla Abdullah District
hasBorderCrossing Taftan border crossing
surface form: Chaman border crossing
hasBorderWith Afghanistan
hasClimate semi-arid climate
hasFunction administrative unit of Balochistan
hasMajorEconomicActivity agriculture
trade
transport
hasSecurityConcern cross-border smuggling
militancy and insurgency risk
hasSettlementType rural district
hasTransportLink road link to Kandahar via Chaman
knownFor being a key transit and trade corridor between Quetta and Chaman
cross-border trade
transit trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan
languageUsed Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
locatedIn Balochistan, Pakistan
surface form: Balochistan province

western Pakistan
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Balochistan, Pakistan
surface form: Balochistan
locatedInTimeZone UTC+05:00
locatedNear Afghan border
Afghanistan
locatedNorthOf Quetta
surface form: Quetta District
locatedOnRoad N-25 National Highway
Quetta–Chaman corridor
surface form: Quetta–Chaman highway
locatedOnTransportCorridor Quetta–Chaman corridor
locatedSouthOf Taftan border crossing
surface form: Chaman border crossing
partOf Balochistan, Pakistan
surface form: Balochistan
partOfRegion northern Balochistan
religion Islam
roadNetworkRole link between Quetta and Chaman
strategicImportance gateway for trade with Afghanistan
part of major regional transit route
timeZone Pakistan Standard Time
utcOffset +05:00

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Quetta–Chaman railway line regionServed Qilla Abdullah District
Pashtun belt of Balochistan containsDistrict Qilla Abdullah District
this entity surface form: Killa Abdullah District
Chaman locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Qilla Abdullah District
this entity surface form: Killa Abdullah District
Chaman partOf Qilla Abdullah District
this entity surface form: Killa Abdullah District
Qilla Abdullah District capital Qilla Abdullah District self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Qilla Abdullah
Qilla Abdullah District containsSettlement Qilla Abdullah District self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Qilla Abdullah
Government of Balochistan jurisdiction Qilla Abdullah District
this entity surface form: Killa Abdullah District
Pishin District borderWith Qilla Abdullah District
this entity surface form: Killa Abdullah District