Wakhan Corridor
geography. Also Wakhan
A narrow strip of Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, roughly 350 kilometres long and 13 to 65 kilometres wide, that runs east to a short border with China and separates Tajikistan in the north from Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral in the south. It was created by the 1893 Durand Line agreement and an 1895 Anglo-Russian accord as a buffer between the British and Russian empires.12
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Sources
- Wakhan Corridor. Wikipedia. Reference
- Should Pakistan claim the Wakhan Corridor? The historical, factual and terrain analysis. Defence Journal, 2024-05-10. Reference
