Shighnan District
Shighnan District is one of the 28 districts of the Badakhshan Province in eastern Afghanistan. It is part of the history region of Shighnan that is today divided between Afghanistan and Tajikistan.The district borders the Panj River and Tajikistan in the…Photo: Khwahan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: district of Afghanistan
- Description: district of Badakhshan, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Khughnan”, “Sheghnan”, “Sheghnan District”, “Shighnan”, “Shignan”, “Shughnan”, “Shugnan”, and “شِغْنَان”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Porshnev.
Porshnev
Village
Porshinev, also called Porshnev, is a jamoat in eastern Tajikistan. It is located in Shughnon District in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region. The jamoat has a total population of 8,723. Porshnev is situated 6 km east of Shighnan District.
Shighnan District
- Location: Badakhshan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Shighnan District” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “শিঘনান জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Shighnan District”
- Chinese: “希格南县”
- French: “Shighnan”
- Indonesian: “Shighnan, Badakhshan”
- Indonesian: “Shighnan”
- Italian: “distretto di Shighnan”
- Italian: “Distretto di Shighnan”
- Japanese: “シュグナン地区”
- Persian: “ولسوالی شغنان”
- Pushto: “د شغنان ولسوالۍ”
- Pushto: “شغنان ولسوالۍ”
- Russian: “Шигнан”
- Russian: “Шугнан”
- Swedish: “Shighnan”
- Tajik: “Вулусволии Шуғнон”
- Tajik: “Ноҳияи Шиғнон”
- Turkish: “Şiganan ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Şiğenan”
- Urdu: “ضلع شغنان”
- Uzbek: “Shighnan tuman”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Shighnan”
- Vietnamese: “Shighnan”
- Welsh: “Shighnan”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع شیغنان”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Zīārat-e Pīrah Surkh and Sheghnan Airport.
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