Sangin
Sangin is a town in Helmand province of Afghanistan, with a population of approximately 20,000 people. It is located on in the valley of the Helmand River at 888 m altitude, 95 km to the north-east of Lashkargah.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Town with 13,600 residents
- Description: town in Helmand province of Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Sārbān Qal‘eh”, “Sarban Qal`eh”, and “サンジーン”
Sangin
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Sangin, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
32.07025° or 32° 4′ 13″ north
Longitude
64.84712° or 64° 50′ 50″ east
Population
13,600
Elevation
885 metres (2,904 feet)
Open location code
8J463RCW+4R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Sangin” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሳንጊን”
- Arabic: “سنجين”
- Arabic: “سنگین”
- Asturian: “Sangin”
- Azerbaijani: “Sangin”
- Bengali: “সাঙ্গিন”
- Cebuano: “Sangīn”
- Chinese: “桑金市”
- Czech: “Sangin”
- Dutch: “Sangin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سنجين”
- French: “Sangin”
- German: “Sangin”
- Hausa: “Sangin”
- Hindi: “सांगिन”
- Indonesian: “Sangin”
- Irish: “Sangin”
- Italian: “Sangin”
- Japanese: “サンギーン”
- Japanese: “サンギン”
- Javanese: “Sangin”
- Kazakh: “Сангин”
- Kirghiz: “Сангин”
- Malay: “Sangin”
- Oromo: “Sangin”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਂਗਿਨ”
- Persian: “سنگین”
- Portuguese: “Sangin”
- Pushto: “سنگين”
- Pushto: “سنگین”
- Russian: “Сангин”
- Russian: “Санджин”
- Slovak: “Sangin”
- Somali: “Sangin”
- Spanish: “Sangin”
- Spanish: “Sangīn”
- Swahili: “Sangin”
- Swedish: “Sangin”
- Tajik: “Сангин”
- Tatar: “Сангин”
- Turkish: “Sangin”
- Ukrainian: “Сангін”
- Urdu: “سنگین، افغانستان”
- Urdu: “سنگین”
- Uzbek: “Sangin”
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