Janda (), (Gilan, Gelan) is a village and the district center of

Gelan District Gelan is a district in the south of Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Its population was estimated at 78,408 in 2002. The district capital is Janda. The district is within the heartland of the Tarakai tribe of Ghilji Pashtuns Pashtuns (, ...

Ghazni Province Ghazni (; ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in southeastern Afghanistan. The province contains 19 Districts of Afghanistan, districts, encompassing over a thousand villages and roughly 1.3 million people, making it the 5th most ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

. It is situated in the central part of the district at at 1,983 m altitude. The houses are made of mud bricks and the streets are unpaved. The town is located within the heartland of the

Tarakai The Tarakai or Taraki () is a Ghilzai Pashtun tribe; mainly found in the Ghazni province of Afghanistan and the large number of population of Tarakai tribe is now settled in Pakistan, mainly in Quetta, Pishin, Zhob, Loralai, Duki, Sherani o ...

tribe of

Ghilji The Ghiljī (, ; ) also spelled Khilji, Khalji, or Ghilzai and Ghilzay (), are one of the largest Pashtuns, Pashtun tribes. Their traditional homeland is Ghazni and Qalati Ghilji in Afghanistan but they have also settled in other regions throu ...

Pashtuns Pashtuns (, , ; ;), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically also referred to as Afghan (ethnon ...

.Ghazni Province Tribal Map (Page 4)
Naval Postgraduate School.

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Populated places in Ghazni Province {{Ghazni-geo-stub

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