Jamrud

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Jamrud is a strategically important town in Pakistan’s Khyber District, historically serving as a gateway to the Khyber Pass and a key military and trade outpost.

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Label Occurrences
Jamrud canonical 7

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fortress
town
borderProximity near Pakistan–Afghanistan border
climate semi-arid climate
contains Jamrud Fort
coordinateLocation 34.002°N 71.383°E
country Pakistan
Pakistan
economy trade and transport-related services
elevationAboveSeaLevel approximately 460 metres
ethnicGroup Pashtuns
governingBody Khyber District
surface form: Khyber District administration
hasFunction security checkpoint for traffic through Khyber Pass
hasHeritageStatus historical military fort
hasMilitaryPresence Frontier Corps
Pakistan Army
hasRole gateway to the Khyber Pass
strategic military outpost
trade outpost
hasTransportConnection Peshawar–Jalalabad road
surface form: Peshawar–Torkham Highway

Khyber Pass Railway
surface form: historic Khyber Railway (partly defunct)
historicalSignificance key point on the route between the Indian subcontinent and Afghanistan
strategic frontier town of the British Raj
integratedInto Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
surface form: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
integrationDate Federally Administered Tribal Areas (historical region)
surface form: 2018 FATA–Khyber Pakhtunkhwa merger
languageUsed Pashto language
surface form: Pashto

Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
locatedIn Jamrud self-linksurface differs
Khyber Pass gateway
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Khyber District
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
locatedInMountainRange Safed Koh
Spin Ghar
locatedInRegion Khyber Pass
surface form: Khyber Pass area
locatedInTimeZone Pakistan Standard Time
locatedInValley Peshawar Valley
locatedNear Peshawar
Torkham
locatedOnTransportRoute Khyber Pass
historic route between South Asia and Central Asia
nearbyRiver Kabul River
partOf North-West Frontier region
surface form: Khyber tribal region

Federally Administered Tribal Areas (historical region)
surface form: former Federally Administered Tribal Areas
regionType borderland
religion Islam
strategicImportance control of access to Khyber Pass
military logistics hub for operations near Afghan border
utcOffset +05:00

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Khyber District hasTown Jamrud
Jamrud locatedIn Jamrud self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Jamrud Fort
Jamrud Fort locatedIn Jamrud