Wagah

Also known as Wahgah, Wagha

Wagah (; ; ), also spelled Wagha or Wahga, is a village and union council (UC 181) located in the Wahga Zone near Lahore City District, Pakistan. The town is famous for the Wagah border ceremony and also serves as a goods transit terminal and a railway station between Pakistan and India.

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The entry is geolocated on the map in PB, across 2 mapped points.

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Wagah
Settlement.official_name: Wahga
Settlement.settlement_type: Union Council of Pakistan
Settlement.image_skyline: File:Wagah_border_ceremony2.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 300px
Settlement.image_caption: The evening flag lowering ceremony at the Pakistan–India international border near Wagah
Settlement.image_map: Wagah-Attari (OpenStreetMap).png
Settlement.mapsize: 300px
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Wagah
Settlement.pushpin_map: Punjab Pakistan#Pakistan
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 300
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Pakistan
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Lahore
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Zone
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Wahga Zone

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: border checkpoint
Part of: India–Pakistan border
Official name: واہگہ
Country: Pakistan
Located in: Lahore District
Image: International border at Wagah - evening flag lowering ceremony.jpg

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Commons category: Wagah Border
native label: واہگہ‎

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Border ceremony
Border crossing
Border crossing ceremony
Gallery
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Wagah is situated west of the India-Pakistan border and lies on the historic Grand Trunk Road between Lahore and Amritsar in India. The border is located from Lahore and from Amritsar. It is also from the bordering village of Attari in India. The Wagah flag-lowering ceremony – by the border security personnel of Pakistan (Pakistan Rangers) and India (Border Security Force) has been taking place here every evening since 1959.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wagah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.