cease-fire line
Armistice demarcation zone
A cease-fire line is a boundary where opposing military forces have agreed to stop fighting, often established after a war ends without a formal peace treaty.
Unlike a permanent border, it marks where armies halted rather than where sovereignty was negotiated: The cease-fire line divided the region for decades.
The term appears frequently in discussions of Kashmir and Korea.
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- demarcationFormal boundary setting
- truceAgreed halt to hostilities
- peace talksFormal conflict-resolution discussions
- borderOuter edge or limit
DMZ · no-man's-land · frontline · partition · checkpoint · barbed wire · razor wire · watchtower · neutral zone · standoff · divided · Korea · Kashmir · negotiations · peacekeepers · soldiers · patrol · tension
- bordersborder, boundary, border crossing, national borders, international borders
- linesdotted, dashed, curved, straight, wavy
cease-fire linefront line
Combat's forward edge
battle line · combat zone · war front · theater of operations · no man's land
cease, ceases, ceased, ceasing, ceaseless, ceaselessly, ceasefire, fire, fires