Shighnan

Shighnan District is one of the 28 districts of the in eastern . It is part of the history region of Shighnan that is today divided between Afghanistan and .The district borders the Panj River and in the…
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  • Village
  • …lies at an elevation of 3,824 metres (12,546 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code SGA
  • Description: district of Badakhshan, Afghanistan
  • Also known as
    “Khughnan”
    “Sheghnan”
    “Sheghnan District”
    “Shighnan District”
    “Shignan”
    “Shughnan”
    “Shugnan”
    “شِغْنَان”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Porshnev.
Porshinev, also called , is a jamoat in eastern . is situated 5 km northeast of Shighnan.

Shighnan

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Latitude
37.559° or 37° 33′ 33″ north
Longitude
71.4881° or 71° 29′ 17″ east
Open location code
8J9HHF5Q+J6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1137337383
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
1125426
Wiki­data 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: “شهرستان شغنان”
  • 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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