Qarqin
Qarqin is a town located in the northern part of Qarqin District, Jowzjan Province, Afghanistan at at 249 m altitude on the southern bank of the Amu Darya River, near the border of Turkmenistan.- Town with about 15,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 260 metres (860 feet)
- Description: human settlement in Afghanistan
- Also known as“Karkin Bazar”“Qarkin”“Quarkin”
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Latitude
37.41392° or 37° 24′ 50″ north
Longitude
66.03334° or 66° 2′ east
Open location code
8J98C27M+H8
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Qarqin” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቃርቅን”
- Arabic: “قرقین”
- Asturian: “Qarqin”
- Azerbaijani: “Qarqın”
- Bengali: “কারকিন”
- Cebuano: “Qarqīn (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Qarqīn”
- Dutch: “Qarqin”
- French: “Qarqin”
- German: “Qarqin”
- Hausa: “Qarqin”
- Hindi: “कारकिन”
- Indonesian: “Qarqin”
- Irish: “Qarqin”
- Japanese: “カルキン”
- Javanese: “Qarqin”
- Kazakh: “Қарқын”
- Kirghiz: “Карқын”
- Malay: “Qarqin”
- Oromo: “Qarqin”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਕਿਨ”
- Persian: “قرقین”
- Portuguese: “Qarqin”
- Pushto: “قرقین”
- Russian: “Каркин”
- Russian: “Кханика”
- Somali: “Qarqin”
- Spanish: “Qarqīn”
- Swahili: “Qarqin”
- Swedish: “Qarqin”
- Tajik: “Қарқин”
- Tatar: “Каркин”
- Turkish: “Karkin”
- Urdu: “قرقین، افغانستان”
- Urdu: “قرقین”
- Uzbek: “Qarqin tumani”
- Uzbek: “Qarqin”
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