Kuhsan
Kohsan is a town and the administrative center of Kohsan District, Herat Province, Afghanistan. The population is 12,463. It is located at at 737 m altitude, near the Hari River and not far from the border with Iran.- Type: Town with 12,100 residents
- Description: human settlement in Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Kohistan”, “Kōhistān”, “Kohsan”, “Kohsān”, “Kuhestan”, “Kūhestān”, “کوسویه”, and “کوهستان”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Islam Qala.
Islam Qala
Town
Photo: Officer, Public domain.Kuhsan
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kuhsān, Herat Province, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.6546° or 34° 39′ 17″ north
Longitude
61.20008° or 61° 12′ 0″ east
Population
12,100
Elevation
740 metres (2,428 feet)
Open location code
8J63M632+R2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Kuhsan” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኩህሳን”
- Arabic: “كوهسان”
- Asturian: “Kohsan”
- Asturian: “Kuhestán”
- Azerbaijani: “Kuhsan”
- Bengali: “কুহসান”
- Cebuano: “Kuhsān (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Kuhsān”
- Dutch: “Kohsan”
- French: “Kuhsan”
- German: “Kuhsan”
- Hausa: “Kuhsan”
- Hindi: “कुहसान”
- Indonesian: “Kuhsan”
- Irish: “Kohsan”
- Japanese: “クフサン”
- Javanese: “Kuhsan”
- Kazakh: “Құхсан”
- Kirghiz: “Кухсан”
- Malay: “Kuhsan”
- Oromo: “Kuhsan”
- Panjabi: “ਕੁਹਸਾਨ”
- Persian: “کهسان”
- Persian: “کوهسان”
- Portuguese: “Kuhsan”
- Pushto: “کوهسان”
- Russian: “Кохсан”
- Russian: “Кошан”
- Somali: “Kuhsan”
- Spanish: “Kuhsan”
- Swahili: “Kuhsan”
- Swedish: “Kohsan”
- Tajik: “Кухсан”
- Tatar: “Кухсан”
- Turkish: “Kuhsan”
- Ukrainian: “Когсан”
- Urdu: “کہسان، افغانستان”
- Urdu: “کوہسان”
- Uzbek: “Kuhsan”
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Places to explore: کلار and Sams Abad.
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Highlights: Islam Qala Mosque and truck stop.
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