Aybak

Aybak or Aibak, known in ancient times as Eukratidia, is a city in northern , serving as the capital of . It is within the jurisdiction of Aybak District and has an estimated population of 130,409 people.
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  • City with about 35,600 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 960 metres (3,140 feet)
  • …was formerly known as “Eukratidia, Aybak, Aibak”
  • Description: town in Samangan Province, Afghanistan
  • Also known as
    “Aībak”
    “Aybak, Samangan”
    “Eybak”
    “Haibak”
    “Samagan”
    “Samangan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Takht-e Rostam.
Michal Hvorecky, CC BY 2.0.

Aybak

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Latitude
36.26749° or 36° 16′ 3″ north
Longitude
68.02154° or 68° 1′ 18″ east
Open location code
8J8C728C+XJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312781018
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1127768
Wiki­data ID
Q1020649

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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: “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”
  • Indonesian: “Aibak”
  • Indonesian: “Samangan”
  • Irish: “Haibak”
  • Italian: “Aybak”
  • 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: “سمنگان”
  • Polish: “Aibak”
  • Polish: “Ajbak”
  • Portuguese: “Aibak”
  • Portuguese: “Samangan”
  • Pushto: “آی بک”
  • 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: “อัยบัก”
  • 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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