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The modern border dates from the period of the British Raj when Britain controlled India, which then included what is now Pakistan. In 1899, the British, via its envoy to China Sir Claude MacDonald, proposed what became known as the MacDonald Line to the Chinese government, however the Chinese never responded to the proposal and thus this border was never formalised.
The Sino-Pakistan Agreement [a] is a 1963 document between the governments of Pakistan and China establishing the border between those countries in the disputed Kashmir region. [3] It resulted in both countries ceding over 1,942 square kilometres (750 sq mi) [clarification needed] to the other.
Aerial View of The Karakoram Highway. The Karakoram Highway (Urdu: شاہراہ قراقرم, Śāhirāh-i Qarāquram), also known as the KKH, National Highway 35 (Urdu: قومی شاہراہ ۳۵), N-35, and the China–Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1,300 km (810 mi) national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab province of Pakistan to the Khunjerab Pass in Gilgit ...
One year after China's border war with India, Pakistan and China signed the Sino-Pakistan Agreement. The agreement resulted in China and Pakistan each withdrawing from about 1,900 square kilometres (750 square miles) of territory, and a boundary on the basis of the 1899 British Note to China as modified by Lord Curzon in 1905.
Gilgit Baltistan Scouts on the northeastern border with China and part of the Line of Control with Indian Kashmir; Pakistan Coast Guards is a mainly land-based patrol force on the southern coast; Pakistan Maritime Security Agency, a coast guard on the southern maritime border; Pakistan Rangers. Punjab Rangers on the central eastern border with ...
Border tensions between India and China have risen in recent years. In a major escalation in 2020, a clash between the two sides killed 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese troops.
The Khunjerab Pass, at the border between China and Pakistan. The People's Republic of China (PRC) shares land borders with 14 countries (tied with Russia for the most in the world): North Korea , Russia , Mongolia , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan , Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Nepal , Bhutan , Myanmar , Laos , and Vietnam .
Map including the Afghanistan–China border. The Afghanistan–China border is a 92-kilometre-long (57 mi) [1] boundary between Afghanistan and China, beginning at the tripoint of both countries with the Pakistan's federally administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, following the watershed along the Mustagh Range, and ending at the tripoint with Tajikistan.