khunjerab pass
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A mountain pass connecting Xinjiang in China with Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan on the Karakoram Highway.
Example Sentences
- "A Chinese Government delegation led by Yang Chieh, minister of communications, left here by air today for Pakistan to take part in a ceremony to hand over the highway between Khunjerab Pass and Hallehgush that has been built with Chinese aid."
- "In 1971, a motor road was inaugurated between Sinkiang and Pakistan across Khunjerab Pass of the Karakorum Mountains."
- "The rolling uplands at 5000 m near Khunjerab Pass on the Hunza-Sinkiang border are a favored habitat of Marco Polo sheep."
- "In addition, several thousand P.L.A. troops are said to be stationed in the Khunjerab Pass on the Xinjiang border to protect Karakoram Highway construction crews, with ready access to Gilgit-Baltistan."
- "The Karakoram Highway, which links China and Pakistan over the 15,400-foot Khunjerab Pass, winds through some spectacular gorges along the route of the old Silk Road. The international "Friendship Highway," which isn't even paved on the Pakistani side, is so unstable and prone to flash floods that almost 900 workers died during its construction, mostly crushed by landslides."
- "On the Chinese side we drove up the 4,700-meter-high Khunjerab Pass from Kashgar - which was like driving through the Black Forest to Lake Titisee. At the border station the road ended abruptly, cut off like a piece of cake, before continuing a good meter lower down. The comfortable, tarred road suddenly became a dangerous, rough, rubble-strewn one."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
the Khunjerab Pass (canonical)