--- title: "Turbat – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Turbat, Pakistan: Turbat is a city in the southern region of the Balochistan province of Pakistan. Nearby: Sassi Punnu Fort. Every way there from the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/turbat" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/turbat.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Sunset_in_mountains%2C_Turbat%2C_Balochistan.jpg/3840px-Sunset_in_mountains%2C_Turbat%2C_Balochistan.jpg" --- City in Balochistan, Pakistan # Turbat Turbat is a city in the southern region of the Balochistan province of Pakistan. ![Turbat](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Sunset_in_mountains%2C_Turbat%2C_Balochistan.jpg/3840px-Sunset_in_mountains%2C_Turbat%2C_Balochistan.jpg) Turbat · Wikimedia Commons The place Turbat is a city in the southern region of the Balochistan province of Pakistan. It is the administrative centre of Kech District. Turbat is the second-largest city in Balochistan after Quetta and the 35th largest city in the country by population. Situated on the left bank of the Kech River, Turbat was the historical capital of the princely state of Makran in British India. It is the largest city in the southern part of the province. The Gwadar Port lies 180 kilometres (110 mi) southwest of Turbat. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbat), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Turbat One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Sassi Punnu Fort Sassui Punnhu Fort, also known as Miri Kalat, is a historical fortification located near Turbat in Turbat Tehsil, Kech District, Balochistan, Pakistan. The site closely associated with the legendary love story of Sassui and Punnhu, a prominent tale in Sindhi and Balochi folklore. 5.8 km · archaeological site in Turbat, Pakistan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassi_Punnu_Fort) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Turbat **Airports:** Turbat (TUK), 4 km · New Gwadar (GWD), 97 km\ **Stations:** Turbat International Airport, 3.6 km\ - Gurandani → Turbat Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/gurandani-to-turbat) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Gurandani&to=Turbat) - Karachi → Turbat Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/karachi-to-turbat) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Karachi&to=Turbat) - Quetta → Turbat Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/quetta-to-turbat) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Quetta&to=Turbat) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Turbat) Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Turbat Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Turbat. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Tirthan Valley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tirthan-valley) IN 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 1,532 km 2. [Panjakent and the Fann Mountains](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/panjakent) TJ 11 ways of moving, 16 sources 1,559 km 3. [Karimabad (Hunza)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hunza) PK 9 ways of moving, 35 sources 1,591 km 4. [Chitkul](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chitkul) IN 7 ways of moving, 20 sources 1,612 km 5. [Kaza](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kaza) IN 7 ways of moving, 20 sources 1,612 km If you know how people move in Turbat – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cturbat&title=Turbat&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fturbat), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Turbat - [Kech District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kech-district) district of Balochistan, Pakistan 6.1 km - [Malik Abad](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/malik-abad) town in Balochistan, Pakistan 1.2 km [The place page for Turbat](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/turbat) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Pakistan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-PK) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/turbat, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt