frontier city

基本解釋

Quetta is a frontier city about a three-hour drive from Kandahar in Afghanistan.
基達(dá)是一座前線城市，距阿富汗的坎大哈有三至四小時(shí)車程。
Guangxi Dongxing city is a frontier city of China and Vietnam adjacent, here is home to China jing.
廣西東興市是我國(guó)與越南鄰接的一個(gè)邊疆市，這里是我國(guó)京族的聚居地。
Urumqiis the Oklahoma City of China, a dusty frontier city with sand, oil and a large ethnic group – the Uighurs – which distinguishes the western Xinjiang region from the rest of the mainland.
烏魯木齊——中國(guó)的俄克拉荷馬城，是一座塵土飛揚(yáng)、以沙子和石油著稱的邊境城市。聚居于此的大批維吾爾族人，也是位于中國(guó)西部的新疆有別于內(nèi)地其他地區(qū)的一大特征。

But the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar is still teeming with exiled Pushtun commanders, who say the only thing holding them back is the absence of support from the United States and its allies.
ECONOMIST: The military campaign: Steadying nerves The
In Pakistan, Taliban militants have tightened their grip on three sides of Peshawar, a strategic city of 3 million people near the frontier with Afghanistan.
NPR: Taliban Tightens Grip Near Northern Pakistan Border