Taftan

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Taftan is a town in Pakistan’s Balochistan province known as a key border crossing and trade gateway between Pakistan and Iran.

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Label Occurrences
Taftan canonical 9

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Statements (36)

Predicate Object
instanceOf town
borderType land border crossing
borderWith Iran
climate arid
connectsTo Mirjaveh
Zahedan
country Pakistan
governedBy Government of Balochistan
hasBorderCheckpointWith Iran
hasCustomsFacility yes
hasImmigrationCheckpoint yes
languageSpoken Balochi
Brahui
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
locatedIn Balochistan, Pakistan
surface form: Balochistan

Pakistan
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Chagai District
locatedInDesertRegion yes
locatedNear Iran–Pakistan border
surface form: Pakistan–Iran border
majorEconomicActivity cross-border trade
transport services
nearbyFeature Koh-i-Taftan volcanic massif (Iran)
partOf Makran coast
surface form: Makran region
roadConnection N-40 National Highway
Quetta–Taftan Highway
role border crossing
trade gateway
sovereignState Pakistan
strategicImportance gateway between South Asia and Iran
timeZone Pakistan Standard Time
transportRole transit point for pilgrims to Iran
transit point for trade between Pakistan and Iran
usedBy cargo traffic
passenger traffic
religious pilgrims
utcOffset +05:00

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Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chagai contains Taftan
subject surface form: Chagai District
Chagai District contains Taftan
Dalbandin roadConnection Taftan