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Paktika

Paktika is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. Forming part of the larger Loya Paktia region, Paktika has a population of about 789,000 residents, who are mostly ethnic Pashtuns but smaller communities of Tajiks and others may also be found in the province.
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  • Type: State with 789,000 residents
  • Description: province of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Paktika Province”, “Velāyat-e Paktīkā”, and “Wilayat-e Paktika”
  • Neighbors: and

Paktika

Latitude
32.3936° or 32° 23′ 37″ north
Longitude
68.7037° or 68° 42′ 13″ east
Population
789,000
Elevation
2,306 metres (7,566 feet)
Open location code
8J4C9PV3+CF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312470033
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1131256
Wiki­data ID
Q185575
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Paktika” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ولاية بكتيكا”
  • Arabic: “ولايه بكتيكا”
  • Armenian: “Պակտիկա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Paktika”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pəktika vilayəti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pəktika”
  • Basque: “Paktika probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Пактыка”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Пактыка”
  • Bengali: “পাক্তিকা প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Пактика”
  • Catalan: “província de Paktika”
  • Catalan: “Província de Paktika”
  • Cebuano: “Wilāyat-e Paktīkā”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای پەکتیکا”
  • Chinese: “Paktika Séng”
  • Chinese: “帕克蒂卡省”
  • Chinese: “帕提卡省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Paktika”
  • Czech: “Paktika”
  • Czech: “Paktíka”
  • Danish: “Paktika”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pektika”
  • Dutch: “Paktika”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Paktika”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Paktika”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Paktiko”
  • Estonian: “Paktika provints”
  • Estonian: “Paktīkā provints”
  • Estonian: “Paktika”
  • Estonian: “Paktīkā”
  • Finnish: “Paktikan maakunta”
  • French: “Paktika”
  • French: “Paktîkâ”
  • Georgian: “ფაქთიკის პროვინცია”
  • German: “AF-PKA”
  • German: “Paktika”
  • Greek: “Πακτίκα”
  • Gujarati: “પક્ટીકા”
  • Hebrew: “פכתיכא”
  • Hindi: “पकतीका प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “पकतीका”
  • Hindi: “पक़्तिका”
  • Hungarian: “Paktika”
  • Indonesian: “Paktika”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Paktika”
  • Italian: “Paktika”
  • Japanese: “パクティーカー州”
  • Kannada: “ಪಕ್ತಿಕ”
  • Kazakh: “Пактика”
  • Korean: “팍티카 주”
  • Korean: “팍티카주”
  • Latvian: “Paktika”
  • Latvian: “Paktīka”
  • Lithuanian: “Paktikos provincija”
  • Malay: “Paktika”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Paktika”
  • Marathi: “पतिकिका”
  • Mazanderani: “پکتیکا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Paktika Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Provinsi Paktika”
  • Mongolian: “Пактика аймаг”
  • Newari: “पकतीका प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान”
  • Newari: “पकतीका प्रान्त”
  • Newari: “पाक्तिका प्रदेश”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون پکتیکا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paktika”
  • Norwegian: “Paktika”
  • Ossetian: “Пактикæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਕਤੀਕਾ”
  • Persian: “استان پکتیکا”
  • Persian: “پکتیکا”
  • Persian: “د پکتيکا ولايت”
  • Persian: “ولایت پکتیکا”
  • Polish: “Paktika”
  • Portuguese: “Paktika”
  • Pushto: “پکتيکا ولايت”
  • Pushto: “د پکتيکا ولايت”
  • Romanian: “provincia Paktika”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Paktika”
  • Russian: “Пактика”
  • Scots: “Paktika Province”
  • Serbian: “Provincija Paktika”
  • Serbian: “Пактика”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Пактика”
  • Sindhi: “پڪتيڪا صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “පකිටිකා”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پکتیکا ویلایت”
  • Spanish: “Paktika”
  • Spanish: “Paktīkā”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Paktika”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Paktiká”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Paktikā”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Paktīka”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Paktīkā”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Paktika”
  • Swedish: “Paktika”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Paktika”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Paktiko”
  • Tajik: “вилояти Пактико”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Пактико”
  • Tamil: “பக்திகா”
  • Tamil: “பாக்டிகா மாகாணம்”
  • Telugu: “పాక్టికా”
  • Thai: “ปาคิทคา”
  • Turkish: “Paktika Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Paktika”
  • Uighur: “پاكتىكا ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Пактика”
  • Ukrainian: “Пактіка”
  • Urdu: “پکتیکا”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ پکتیکا”
  • Uzbek: “Paktika Province”
  • Vietnamese: “Paktika”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Paktika”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ پکتیکا”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ پکٹیکا”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕克蒂卡省”
  • Yue Chinese: “帕提卡省”

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