Afghanistan
Badghis Province
Qal‘ah-ye Now District

Qala i Naw

Qala-e-Naw, is a town in Qala-e-Naw district and the capital of Badghis province, in north-west . Its population was estimated at 9,000 in 2006, of which most were Sunni Hazaras.
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  • Type: City with 58,900 residents
  • Description: town in Badghis Province, Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Kala Nao”, “Kalai-Naw”, “Kalayi-Nau”, “Qal‘a-i-Naw”, “Qal‘ah-ye Now”, “Qal‘eh Nau”, “Qal’eh Now”, “Qal‘eh-ye Now”, “Qala e Naw”, “Qala Nau”, “Qala Naw”, “Qala-e-Nau”, “Qala-e-Naw”, “Qala-i-Nau”, “Qala-i-Naw”, “Qalaenaw”, “Qalanou”, “Qalay-e-Naw”, “Qula-i-nau”, “Shehr Qaleh”, and “Shehr Qeleh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Qala i Naw Airport.

Aerodrome
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Qala i Naw Airport; is a small serving the city of Qala i Naw in , . It is also known as Qala Nau Airport. It previously had scheduled services with the now defunct Pamir Airways.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Senjetak.

Village
is a village in , Afghanistan, located near Qala i Naw City, but officially under the administrative jurisdiction of the .

Qala i Naw

Latitude
34.98838° or 34° 59′ 18″ north
Longitude
63.13373° or 63° 8′ 1″ east
Population
58,900
Elevation
887 metres (2,910 feet)
IATA airport code
LQN
United Nations Location Codes
AF LQN and AF QYN
Open location code
8J65X4QM+9F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 313319448
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1129867
Wiki­data ID
Q26396
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Qala i Naw” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قلعه نو”
  • Asturian: “Qal’eh-ye Now”
  • Asturian: “Qala i Naw”
  • Belarusian: “Кала і Наў”
  • Belarusian: “Калаі Наў”
  • Belarusian: “Калаі-Нау”
  • Bengali: “কালা আই নাও”
  • Catalan: “Qala-e Naw”
  • Catalan: “Qala-i Naw”
  • Cebuano: “Qala i Naw”
  • Chinese: “瑙堡”
  • Czech: “Kalájenau”
  • Czech: “Qale-je nou”
  • Danish: “Qala i Naw”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Qeleyo Newe”
  • Dutch: “Qala-e-Now”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قلعه نو”
  • Esperanto: “Kala-i Naŭ”
  • Esperanto: “Kala-i-Naŭ”
  • Esperanto: “Kalainaŭo”
  • Estonian: “Kala-i Now”
  • Estonian: “Kalā-i Now”
  • Estonian: “Qala i Naw”
  • Finnish: “Qal’eh-ye Naw”
  • Finnish: “Qala-e-Now”
  • French: “Qala-I-Naw”
  • Galician: “Qal’eh-ye Now”
  • German: “Qala-i-Naw”
  • Greek: “Καλ-έγχιε-Νόου”
  • Greek: “Καλάι Νάου”
  • Gujarati: “કલા આઈ નાવ”
  • Hebrew: “קלעה-י נאו”
  • Hindi: “क़ला-ए-नौ, अफ़्ग़ानिस्तान”
  • Hindi: “क़ला-ए-नौ”
  • Hindi: “काला ए नौव”
  • Indonesian: “Qala i Naw”
  • Italian: “Qala-i-Naw”
  • Japanese: “カラエナウ”
  • Kannada: “ಖಲಾ ಐ ನವಾ”
  • Korean: “칼라 아이 나”
  • Latvian: “Kale i Nova”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalai Nau”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalaji No”
  • Malay: “Qala i Naw”
  • Marathi: “कला आय नाव”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qala i Naw”
  • Norwegian: “Qala e Naw”
  • Panjabi: “ਕ਼ਲ ਏ ਨੌ”
  • Persian: “قلعه نو”
  • Persian: “قلعهٔ نو”
  • Persian: “قلعه‌‌نو”
  • Persian: “قلعۀ نو”
  • Polish: “Kala-je Nau”
  • Polish: “Qala i Naw”
  • Portuguese: “Qal’eh-ye Now”
  • Portuguese: “Qala i Naw”
  • Pushto: “قلعه نو”
  • Romanian: “Qala-i-Naw”
  • Russian: “Калайи-Нау”
  • Sinhala: “කළා අයි නව්”
  • Spanish: “Qal’eh ye Now”
  • Spanish: “Qal’eh-ye Now”
  • Spanish: “Qala i Naw”
  • Spanish: “Qala-e-naw”
  • Spanish: “Qala-i-Naw”
  • Swedish: “Qaleh-ye Now”
  • Tamil: “கியாலா ஐ நவ்”
  • Tatar: “Калаи-Нәү”
  • Telugu: “కాల యె నౌ”
  • Thai: “การา ไอ แนว”
  • Turkish: “Kale-i Nev”
  • Ukrainian: “Калаї Нау”
  • Urdu: “قلعۂ نو”
  • Vietnamese: “Qala i Naw, Afghanistan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Qala i Naw, Afghanistan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Qala i Naw”
  • “Qala-i-Naw”

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