Aybak
Aybak or Aibak, known in ancient times as Eukratidia, is a city in northern Afghanistan, serving as the capital of Samangan Province. It is within the jurisdiction of Aybak District and has an estimated population of 130,409 people.Photo: Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Public domain.
- Type: City with 47,800 residents
- Description: town in Samangan Province, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Aibak”, “Aībak”, “Āybak”, “Aybak, Samangan”, “Eukratidia, Aybak, Aibak”, “Eybak”, “Haibak”, “Samagan”, and “Samangan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Takht-e Rostam.
Takht-e Rostam
Photo: Michal Hvorecky, CC BY 2.0.
Takht-e Rostam or Stupa of Takht-e Rostam is a stupa Buddhist monastery complex 2 km south of the town of Haibak, Afghanistan. Built in the 3rd-4th century AD while the area was part of the Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom the complex is carved entirely from the bedrock and "consists of five chambers, two of them sanctuaries.
Aybak
- Categories: small city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Aybak, Samangan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
36.26749° or 36° 16′ 3″ northLongitude
68.02154° or 68° 1′ 18″ eastPopulation
47,800Elevation
969 metres (3,179 feet)Open location code
8J8C728C+XJOpenStreetMap ID
node 312781018OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1127768Wikidata ID
Q1020649
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Aybak” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “አይባክ”
- Arabic: “آي بك”
- Arabic: “سمنكان”
- Asturian: “Aybak”
- Azerbaijani: “Aybak”
- Belarusian: “Саманган”
- Bengali: “আইবক”
- Bengali: “সমাঙ্গন”
- Catalan: “Samangan”
- Cebuano: “Aībak”
- Chinese: “艾巴克”
- Chinese: “萨曼甘”
- Chinese: “薩曼甘”
- Czech: “Samangán”
- Danish: “Aybak”
- Dari: “ایبک”
- Dutch: “Aybak”
- Dutch: “Haibak”
- Esperanto: “Ajbak”
- Estonian: “Aybak”
- Estonian: “Heibak”
- Estonian: “Samangan”
- Estonian: “Samangān”
- Finnish: “Aibak”
- Finnish: “Aybak”
- Finnish: “Eukratidia”
- Finnish: “Samangan”
- French: “Aïbak”
- French: “Aybak”
- German: “Aibak”
- German: “Aybak”
- German: “Samangan”
- Greek: “Σαμανγκάν”
- Gujarati: “સમાંગણ”
- Hausa: “Aibak”
- Hausa: “Aybak, Samangan”
- Hausa: “Aybak”
- Hebrew: “אייבאכ”
- Hindi: “ऐबक”
- Hindi: “समंगान”
- Hindi: “समांगन”
- Indonesian: “Aibak”
- Indonesian: “Samangan”
- Irish: “Haibak”
- Italian: “Aybak”
- Japanese: “アイ－バク”
- Japanese: “アイバク”
- Japanese: “サマンガーン”
- Javanese: “Aibak”
- Kannada: “ಸಮಂಗನ್”
- Kazakh: “Айбақ”
- Kirghiz: “Айбак”
- Korean: “사마간”
- Korean: “사망간”
- Korean: “아이바크”
- Latvian: “Samangāna”
- Lithuanian: “Samanganas”
- Malay: “Aibak”
- Malay: “Samangan”
- Marathi: “समांगण”
- Northern Frisian: “Aybak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Samangan”
- Norwegian: “Aybak”
- Oromo: “Aibak”
- Panjabi: “ਐਬਕ”
- Persian: “آی بک”
- Persian: “آیبک”
- Persian: “ایبک”
- Polish: “Aibak”
- Polish: “Ajbak”
- Portuguese: “Aibak”
- Portuguese: “Samangan”
- Pushto: “آی بک”
- Pushto: “آیبک”
- Pushto: “ایبک، سمنګان”
- Romanian: “Aybak”
- Russian: “Айбак”
- Sinhala: “සමන්ගන්”
- Slovenian: “Ajbak, Samangan”
- Somali: “Aibak”
- Spanish: “Aibak”
- Spanish: “Samangan”
- Swahili: “Aibak”
- Swedish: “Aībak”
- Swedish: “Aybak”
- Tajik: “Айбак”
- Tamil: “சமங்கன்”
- Tatar: “Айбак”
- Tatar: “Айбәк”
- Telugu: “సమన్ గాన్”
- Thai: “ซามาร์คันด์”
- Turkish: “Aybak”
- Turkish: “Aybek, Afganistan”
- Turkish: “Aybek”
- Ukrainian: “Айбак”
- Ukrainian: “Саманган”
- Urdu: “ایبک”
- Urdu: “سامانگان”
- Urdu: “سمنگان”
- Uzbek: “Aybak”
- Vietnamese: “Samangan”
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