Place:Badakhshan, Afghanistan

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NameBadakhshan
Alt namesBadakhshansource: Wikipedia
Badakhshānsource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) p 10
TypeProvince
Coordinates36.75°N 72.0°E
Located inAfghanistan
Contained Places
District
Jurm
Shuhada
General region
Vakhan
Inhabited place
Eshkashem
Fey̲zābād
Jorm
Khevāj
Kugas
Langar
Qalʿeh-ye Panjeh
Shahr-e Monjan
Ujum
Ust
Zibak
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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

Badakhshan Province (Dari/Pashto: , Badaxšān) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bordered by Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan in the north and the Pakistan-administered Lower and Upper Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan in the southeast. It also has a 91-kilometer (57-mile) border with China in the east.

It is part of a broader historical Badakhshan region, parts of which now also lie in Tajikistan and China. The province contains 22 districts, over 1,200 villages and approximately 1 055 000 [1] people.[1] Fayzabad serves as the provincial capital. Resistance activity has been reported in the province since the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

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