Wakhjir Pass

The Wakhjir Pass (simplified Chinese:瓦赫吉尔山口; traditional Chinese:瓦赫吉爾山口; pinyin:Wǎhèjí'ěr Shānkǒu; Wade–Giles:Wa-ho-chi-erh Shan-K'ou; ( کوتل وجیر Kōtal-e Vakhjīr) also spelled Vakhjir Pass, is a mountain pass in the Hindu Kush or Pamirs at the eastern end of the Wakhan Corridor, the only pass between Afghanistan and China. It links Wakhan in Afghanistan with the Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County in Xinjiang, China, at an altitude of 4,923 metres (16,152 ft), but the pass is not an official border crossing point. The border has the sharpest official change of clocks of any international frontier (UTC+4:30 in Afghanistan to UTC+8, China Standard Time, in China).