Karakoram Highway
geography. Also KKH, Khunjerab Pass
The road linking Pakistan and China across the Karakoram range, about 1,300 kilometres from Hasan Abdal in Punjab through Gilgit-Baltistan to the Khunjerab Pass at about 4,690 metres, where it becomes China’s National Highway 314. Built jointly over some twenty years from 1959 and opened in the late 1970s, it is the only road link between the two countries and the land spine of CPEC.12
Linked from 3 pages across CUPA.
Sources
- Karakoram Highway. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Reference
- Khunjerab Pass. Wikipedia. Reference
