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Samangan

Samangan is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located north of the mountains in the central part of the country. The province covers 11,218 square kilometres, and is surrounded by Sar-e Pol Province in the west, in the north, in the east and in the south.
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  • Type: State with 438,000 residents
  • Description: province of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Aybak”, “Eybak”, “Samangan Province”, “Samanghan”, “Semegaan Province”, “Velāyat-e Samangān”, and “Wilāyat-e Samangān”

Samangan

Latitude
36° north
Longitude
67.6667° or 67° 40′ east
Population
438,000
Elevation
2,202 metres (7,224 feet)
Open location code
8J892M28+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312470056
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1127766
Wiki­data ID
Q183015
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Samangan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سمنجان”
  • Arabic: “سمنغان”
  • Arabic: “سمنكان”
  • Arabic: “سمنگان”
  • Arabic: “ولاية سمنغان”
  • Arabic: “ولاية سمنكان”
  • Arabic: “ولايه سمنكان”
  • Azerbaijani: “Səməngan vilayəti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Səməngan”
  • Basque: “Samangan probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Саманган”
  • Belarusian: “Саманган”
  • Bengali: “সামাংগান প্রদেশ”
  • Bengali: “সামাঙ্গন প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Саманган”
  • Catalan: “província de Samangan”
  • Catalan: “Província de Samangan”
  • Cebuano: “Samangān”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای سەمەنگان”
  • Chinese: “Samangan Séng”
  • Chinese: “沙曼根省”
  • Chinese: “萨曼甘省/薩曼甘省”
  • Chinese: “萨曼甘省”
  • Chinese: “薩曼甘省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Samangan (vilâyet)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Samangan”
  • Czech: “Samangán”
  • Danish: “Samangan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Semengan”
  • Dutch: “Samangan”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Samangan”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Samangan”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Samangano”
  • Esperanto: “Samangan”
  • Estonian: “Samangani provints”
  • Estonian: “Samangāni provints”
  • Finnish: “Samanganin maakunta”
  • French: “Samangan”
  • French: “Samangân”
  • Georgian: “სამანგანის პროვინცია”
  • German: “AF-SAM”
  • German: “Samangan”
  • German: “Semengan”
  • Greek: “Σαμανγκάν”
  • Gujarati: “સમાંગણ”
  • Hebrew: “סמנגאן”
  • Hindi: “समंगान प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “समंगान”
  • Hungarian: “Szamangán”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Samangan”
  • Indonesian: “Samangan”
  • Italian: “Samangan”
  • Japanese: “サマンガーン州”
  • Kannada: “ಸಮಂಗನ್”
  • Kashmiri: “سَمَنٛگان صوبہٕ”
  • Kazakh: “Саманған”
  • Kirghiz: “Саманган”
  • Korean: “사망간 주”
  • Korean: “사망간주”
  • Latvian: “Samangāna”
  • Latvian: “Samangānas province”
  • Lithuanian: “Samangano provincija”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Samangan”
  • Marathi: “समांगण”
  • Mazanderani: “سمنگان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Samangan Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Provinsi Samangan”
  • Mongolian: “Саманган аймаг”
  • Mongolian: “Саманган муж”
  • Nepali: “समन्गन”
  • Newari: “समनगान प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान”
  • Newari: “समनगान प्रान्त”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون سمنگان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Samangan”
  • Norwegian: “Samangan”
  • Ossetian: “Саманган”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਮੰਗਾਨ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Persian: “استان سمنگان”
  • Persian: “د سمنګان ولايت”
  • Persian: “سمنگان”
  • Persian: “ولایت سمنگان”
  • Polish: “Samangan”
  • Portuguese: “Samangan”
  • Pushto: “د سمنګان ولايت”
  • Pushto: “د سمنګان ولایت”
  • Pushto: “سمنګان ولايت”
  • Pushto: “سمنگان ولايت”
  • Romanian: “provincia Samangan”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Samangan”
  • Russian: “Саманган”
  • Scots: “Samangan Province”
  • Serbian: “Provincija Samangan”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Саманган”
  • Serbian: “Саманган”
  • Sindhi: “سمنگان صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “සමන්ගන්”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سمنقان ویلایت”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Samangan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Samangán”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Samangān”
  • Spanish: “Samangān”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Samangan”
  • Swedish: “Samangan”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Samangan”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Samangon”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Самангон”
  • Tamil: “சமங்கன் மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “சமங்கன்”
  • Telugu: “సమంగాన్”
  • Thai: “สแมนแกน”
  • Turkish: “Samangan Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Samangan”
  • Uighur: “سامانگان ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Саманган”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ سمنگان”
  • Uzbek: “Samangan viloyati”
  • Uzbek: “Samangan”
  • Vietnamese: “Samangan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Samangan”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ سمنگان”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨曼甘省”
  • Yue Chinese: “沙曼根省”

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