districts
A district is a type of administrative division
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of Badakhshan Province
Badakhshan Province ( fa, بدخشان ولایت, ''Badaxšān wilāyat'') is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the farthest northeastern part of the country between Tajikistan and Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region. It shares ...
in eastern Afghanistan
Afghanistan (; Pashto
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. The total population for the district is about 13,000 residents. The district has three international border
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s: Tajikistan
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, capital = Dushanbe
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to the north, Pakistan
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to the south (specifically Gilgit-Baltistan
Gilgit-Baltistan (; , Balti language, Balti: རྒྱལ་སྐྱིད་ སྦལྟི་ཡུལ།), formerly known as the Northern Areas, is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative territory, and constitutes the no ...
and Chitral District
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), and with the Chinese
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* Something related to China
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autonomous region of Xinjiang
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to the east. The capital of the district is the village of Khandud, which has a population of 1,244. The district is almost entirely populated by Pamiris
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and, to a lesser extent, Kyrghyz.
See also
* Afghanistan–China border * Wakhan * Wakhan CorridorExternal links
Map
at the Afghanistan Information Management Services {{Authority control Districts of Badakhshan Province Wakhan