Place:Samangan, Afghanistan

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NameSamangan
Alt namesSamangansource: Wikipedia
Samangānsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Samāngansource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) p 10
TypeProvince
Coordinates36.0°N 67.667°E
Located inAfghanistan
Contained Places
District
Dara-i-Suf
Inhabited place
Haibak
Kholm
Qaleh-ye Now
Qaleh-ye Sarkari
Samangān
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Samangan (Dari: ; Pashto: ) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located north of the Hindu Kush mountains in the central part of the country. The province covers and is surrounded by Sar-e Pol Province in the west, Balkh in the north, Baghlan in the east, and Bamyan in the south.

Samangan province is divided into 7 districts and contains 674 villages. It has a population of about 325,000 [1][1] which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. The city of Aybak serves as the provincial capital.

In 2021, the Taliban gained control of the province during the 2021 Taliban offensive.

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