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語源

Partial calque of Wakhi درہ خنجراب (literally “waterfall house valley”), from دره (“valley; crack; fissure”) + خون (“house”) + جراب (“creek coming from a spring or a waterfall”), or, 'Valley of Blood'. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

固有名詞

Khunjerab Pass or the Khunjerab Pass

1. A mountain pass connecting Xinjiang in China with Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan; it is the highest point on Karakoram Highway, at an altitude of 4,693 metres (15,397 feet), making it the highest paved international border crossing in the world.
   • 1971 February 12 [1971 February 12], “PRC Government Delegation Leaves Peking for Pakistan”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 30, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →OCLC, Communist China: International Affairs, page A 14:

     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.

   • 1972, Theodore Shabad, “Sinkiang”, in China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71‎, Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 313:

     In 1971, a motor road was inaugurated between Sinkiang and Pakistan across Khunjerab Pass of the Karakorum Mountains.

   • 1977, George B[eals] Schaller, Mountain Monarchs: Wild Sheep and Goats of the Himalaya (Wildlife Behavior and Ecology), Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, plate 15:

     The rolling uplands at 5000 m near Khunjerab Pass on the Hunza-Sinkiang border are a favored habitat of Marco Polo sheep.

   • 2010 September 8, Selig S. Harrison, “China's Presence in Pakistan”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 September 2015, Opinion‎:

     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.

   • 2013 October 15, “World's most dangerous roads”, in USA Today‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 November 2013:

     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.

   • 2015 April 24, Frank Sieren, “Sieren's China: Beijing's 'Marshall Plan' for Pakistan”, in Deutsche Welle‎, archived from the original on 29 August 2015, China‎:

     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.

   • 2023 October 20, Ariba Shahid, “Khunjerab Pass linking Pakistan, China to stay open all year round”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 21 February 2025:

     The Khunjerab Pass, a major land trade route between Pakistan and China, will be converted to an all-weather border, Pakistani caretaker prime minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said at an event at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Friday.

参照

Further reading

• “Khunjerab Pass”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Khunjerab Pass”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1554, column 2