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Noun: Khyber Pass
  1. A mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India

Type of: mountain pass, notch, pass

Part of: Afghanistan, Hindu Kush, Hindu Kush Mountains, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Islamic State of Afghanistan, Pakistan, West Pakistan

Encyclopedia: Khyber Pass