Place:Farah, Afghanistan

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NameFarah
Alt namesFarahsource: Wikipedia
Farāhsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Farāh provincesource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeProvince
Coordinates33.0°N 62.5°E
Located inAfghanistan
Contained Places
District
Lash Wa Juwaym
Shib Koh
Inhabited place
Anār Darreh
Delaram
Do Qaleh
Farsi
Farāh
Kal Qaleh
Mandel
Peshin Jan
Por Chaman
Shindand
Tahaneh-ye Ney Basteh
Tojg
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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

Farah (Pashto/Dari: , Farā) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southwestern part of the country next to Iran. It is a spacious and sparsely populated province, divided into eleven districts and contains hundreds of villages. It has a population of about 563,026,[1] which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural tribal society. Farah's population is dominated by Pashtun (80%) tribesmen (Alizai, Barakzai,Noorzai) although Tajiks and a small minority of Shi'a Hazaras can also be found in the countryside. The Farah Airport is located near the city of Farah, which serves as the capital of the province. Farah is linked with Iran via the Iranian border town of Mahirud. The province famous tourism sites include Pul Garden, New Garden, Kafee Garden, shrine of Sultan Amir and Kafer castle are from sightseeing places of Farah province [1]

Geographically the province is approximately , making it (comparatively) more than twice the size of Maryland, or half the size of South Korea. The province is bounded on the north by Herat, on the northeast by Ghor, the southeast by Helmand, the south by Nimroz, and on the west by Iran. It is the fourth largest province in Afghanistan by area size, but the second least densely populated province.

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