Afghanistan–China border

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The Afghanistan–China border is a remote, high-altitude frontier running through the narrow Wakhan Corridor in the Pamir Mountains, linking northeastern Afghanistan with China’s Xinjiang region.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf international border
land border
borderRegionOnAfghanSide Wakhan District
borderRegionOnChineseSide Tashkurgan
surface form: Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County
borderStatus delimited and generally undisputed
climate cold high-mountain climate
countryBorder Afghanistan
China
createdFor buffer between British India and the Qing Empire
demarcatedIn 1963
demarcationTreatySignedBy Kingdom of Afghanistan
China
surface form: People's Republic of China
establishedBy Anglo-Russian boundary commission
surface form: Anglo-Russian agreements on Central Asia

Afghanistan–China border self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sino-Afghan boundary negotiations
governedBy Afghanistan–China border self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sino-Afghan boundary agreement of 1963
hasBorderCrossing no official open crossing for civilians
hasFeature glaciated valleys
remote high plateaus
steep mountain ridges
hasLength approximately 57 miles
approximately 92 km
hasPopulationDensity very low
hasRoadConnection no permanent road directly crossing the border
hasSecurityConcern monitoring of cross-border militancy risk
highestPoint over 4,900 metres above sea level
locatedIn Central Asia
East Asia–Central Asia interface
Pamir Mountains
Wakhan Corridor
lowestPoint over 4,300 metres above sea level
near Karakoram
surface form: Karakoram region

Pakistan
Tajikistan
nearbyPass Irshad Pass
Wakhjir Pass
partOf Afghanistan–China relations
passesThrough Wakhjir Pass vicinity
separates Afghanistan
Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan
surface form: Badakhshan Province

China
Xinjiang
surface form: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
strategicRole historical buffer zone
remote frontier with limited human settlement
terrain high-altitude
mountainous
timeZoneOnAfghanSide UTC+4:30
timeZoneOnChineseSide UTC+8
usedHistoricallyFor limited trans-Pamir trade routes

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Wakhan Corridor borderFeature Afghanistan–China border
Afghan Border Police jurisdiction Afghanistan–China border
Hunza–Nagar District borderedBy Afghanistan–China border
this entity surface form: Afghanistan (via narrow Wakhan Corridor proximity)
Afghanistan–China border establishedBy Afghanistan–China border self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sino-Afghan boundary negotiations
Afghanistan–China border governedBy Afghanistan–China border self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sino-Afghan boundary agreement of 1963
Wakhjir Pass partOf Afghanistan–China border