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Oruzgan

Uruzgan is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. It has a population of 436,079, and the province is mostly a tribal society. serves as the capital of the province. Uruzgan borders the provinces of , Daykundi, , , and .
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  • Type: State with 428,000 residents
  • Description: province of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Aruzgan”, “Orozgān”, “Orozgan Province”, “Orūzgān”, “Oruzgan Province”, “Orūzgān Province”, “Owrūzgān”, “Ruzgan”, “Urozgan Province”, “Urōzgān Province”, “Uruzgan”, “Uruzgan Province”, “Velāyat-e Orūzgān”, and “Wilāyat-e Uruzgān”

Oruzgan

Latitude
32.813° or 32° 48′ 47″ north
Longitude
66.0183° or 66° 1′ 6″ east
Population
428,000
Elevation
1,760 metres (5,774 feet)
Open location code
8J48R279+58
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312470035
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1131461
Wiki­data ID
Q183028
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Oruzgan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ولاية أروزكان”
  • Arabic: “ولاية اروزكان”
  • Arabic: “ولايه أروزكان”
  • Asturian: “Orusgán”
  • Asturian: “Uruzgan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Üruzgan vilayəti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uruzgan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uruzqan”
  • Basque: “Oruzgan probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Урузган”
  • Belarusian: “Урузган”
  • Bengali: “ওরুজগন প্রদেশ”
  • Bengali: “ওরুজ্‌গান প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Орузган”
  • Catalan: “Oruzgan”
  • Catalan: “província d’Oruzgan”
  • Catalan: “Província d’Oruzgan”
  • Cebuano: “Uruzgān”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ئووروزگان”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ئوورۆزگان”
  • Chinese: “Urozgan Séng”
  • Chinese: “乌鲁兹甘省/烏魯茲甘省”
  • Chinese: “乌鲁兹甘省”
  • Chinese: “烏魯茲根省”
  • Chinese: “烏魯茲甘省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Uruzgan”
  • Czech: “Orúzgán”
  • Czech: “Uruzgán”
  • Danish: “Oruzgan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Urozgan”
  • Dutch: “Oeroezgan”
  • Dutch: “Oruzgan”
  • Dutch: “Uruzgan”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Uruzgan”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Uruzgan”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Uruzgano”
  • Esperanto: “Uruzgano”
  • Estonian: “Orūzgāni provints”
  • Estonian: “Uruzgani provints”
  • Estonian: “Uruzgāni provints”
  • Finnish: “Oruzganin maakunta”
  • Finnish: “Uruzganin maakunta”
  • French: “Orozgan”
  • French: “Orozgân”
  • French: “Oruzgan”
  • French: “Uruzgan”
  • Georgian: “ურუზგანის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Urusgan”
  • Greek: “Ορουζγκάν”
  • Gujarati: “ઉરોઝગન”
  • Hebrew: “אורוזגאן”
  • Hindi: “ओरुज़्ग़ान”
  • Hindi: “ओरूज़्गान प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “ओरूज़्गान”
  • Hungarian: “Uruzgán”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Oruzgan”
  • Italian: “Oruzgan”
  • Japanese: “ウルーズガーン州”
  • Kannada: “ಉರೊಜ್ಗನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Орозған”
  • Korean: “우루즈간 주”
  • Korean: “우루즈간주”
  • Latvian: “Orūzgāna”
  • Latvian: “Orūzgānas province”
  • Lithuanian: “Urozgano provincija”
  • Malay: “Urozgan”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Uruzgan”
  • Malayalam: “ഉറോസ്ഗാൻ പ്രവിശ്യ”
  • Marathi: “उरोजगण”
  • Mazanderani: “ارزگان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Urozgan Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Provinsi Uruzgan”
  • Mongolian: “Урузган аймаг”
  • Mongolian: “Урузган муж”
  • Newari: “अरोजगान प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान”
  • Newari: “अरोजगान प्रान्त”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون اروزگان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oruzgan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Orūzgān”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Uruzgan”
  • Norwegian: “Oruzgan”
  • Norwegian: “Uruzgan”
  • Ossetian: “Урузган”
  • Panjabi: “ਉਰੁਜ਼ਗਾਨ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਰੁਜਗਾਨ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Persian: “ارزگان”
  • Persian: “اروزگان”
  • Persian: “استان ارزگان”
  • Persian: “د ارزگان ولايت”
  • Persian: “ولایت ارزگان”
  • Persian: “ولایت اروزگان”
  • Polish: “Oruzgan”
  • Polish: “Uruzgan”
  • Portuguese: “Oruzgan”
  • Portuguese: “Uruzgan”
  • Pushto: “اروزګان ولایت”
  • Pushto: “اروزګان”
  • Pushto: “اروزگان ولايت”
  • Pushto: “د روزګان ولايت”
  • Romanian: “provincia Urozgan”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Urozgan”
  • Russian: “Урузган”
  • Scots: “Orūzgān Province”
  • Serbian: “Provincija Oruzgan”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Орузган”
  • Serbian: “Урузган”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Uruzganska pokrajina”
  • Sindhi: “اروزگان صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “උරොස්ගන්”
  • Sinhala: “උරෝස්ගන්”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اروزقان ویلایت”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Oruzgan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Oruzgān”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Orūzgan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Orūzgān”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Uruzgan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Uruzgán”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Uruzgān”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Urūzgan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Urūzgān”
  • Spanish: “Uruzgan”
  • Spanish: “Urūzgān”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Oruzgan”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Urozgan”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Uruzgan”
  • Swedish: “Oruzgan”
  • Swedish: “Uruzgan”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Urozgan”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Urūzgon”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Урӯзгон”
  • Tamil: “உரோஸ்க்கான்”
  • Tamil: “ஒரூஸ்கான் மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “யூரோஸ்க்கான்”
  • Telugu: “ఉరోజ్గాన్”
  • Telugu: “యూరోజ్గాన్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดอูรานกัน”
  • Thai: “ยูโรซกาน”
  • Turkish: “Uruzgan Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Uruzgan”
  • Uighur: “ئۇرۇزگان ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Урузган”
  • Urdu: “ارزگان”
  • Urdu: “اروزگان”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ اروزگان”
  • Uzbek: “Uroʻzgon viloyati”
  • Vietnamese: “Oruzgan”
  • Vietnamese: “Orūzgān”
  • Vietnamese: “Urozgan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Orūzgān”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ اروزگان”
  • Wu Chinese: “乌鲁兹甘省”
  • Yue Chinese: “烏魯茲根省”
  • Zeeuws: “Uruzgan”

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