Place:Jowzjan, Afghanistan

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NameJowzjan
Alt namesJowzjansource: Wikipedia
Jowzjānsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Jōwzjānsource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 6
TypeProvince
Coordinates37.0°N 66.0°E
Located inAfghanistan
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Alamlik
Baghlin
Chelik-e Yas Khan
Dahaneh-ye Kashan
Lar Gerd
Marghi
Mengeh Jek
Qaleh Shahr
Qarqin
Sar-e Pol
Sheberghān
Togow Bay
Tokzar
Āqchah
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Jowzjan, sometimes spelled as Jawzjan or Jozjan (Dari/Pashto: ), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the country bordering neighboring Turkmenistan. The province is divided into 11 districts and contains hundreds of villages. It has a population of about 613,481,[1] which is multi-ethnic and mostly agriculturalists. Sheberghan is the capital of Jozjan province.

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