Official Name: | Taftan |
Taftan | |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Mapsize: | 150 px |
Coordinates: | 28.948°N 61.5844°W |
Pushpin Map: | Pakistan Balochistan#Pakistan |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Balochistan |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Chagai District |
Population Total: | 18,510 |
Population As Of: | 2017 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Code: | 0825 |
Area Code Type: | Calling code |
Timezone1: | PST |
Utc Offset1: | +5 |
Taftan (Urdu: {{nq|تفتان) (Baluchi: {{nq|تپتان) is a trunk road and railway town in Chagai District, Balochistan, Pakistan.[2] It is one of Pakistan's border crossings with Iran. It is by either road or rail over from Quetta.
It is northeast of the thermally active dark peak or small massif also called Taftan, wholly in Iran.
At its western extreme, the border crossing point of Iran is Mirjaveh.
It is on the N40 road. This becomes the road 84 in Iran's system, and which meanders via Kerman to a number change west of Rafsanjan.
It is served by its railway station on the line commonly described as the Quetta-Taftan Line but which, since 1940, continues to Zahedan, Iran.