Shighnan
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…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: district of Badakhshan, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Khughnan”, “Sheghnan”, “Sheghnan District”, “Shighnan District”, “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 5 km northeast of Shighnan.
Shighnan
- Categories: district of Afghanistan and locality
- Location: Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.559° or 37° 33′ 33″ northLongitude
71.4881° or 71° 29′ 17″ eastElevation
3,824 metres (12,546 feet)IATA airport code
SGAOpen location code
8J9HHF5Q+J6OpenStreetMap ID
node 1137337383OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
1125426Wikidata ID
Q3694396
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Shighnan” 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”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shighnan”. Photo: Khwahan, CC BY-SA 3.0.