Laghman

Laghmān, historically known as Lamghan, or Lamghanat, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. It has a population of about 502,148, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society.
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  • Type: State with 442,000 residents
  • Description: province of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “AF-LAG”, “Laghmān”, “Laghman Province”, “Laghman Лағмон”, “Laghmani provints”, “Lagmano”, “Lamghan”, “Lamghan Province”, “Lamghanat”, “Leghman Province”, “Provincia de Lagman”, “Provincia de Lagmān”, “Provincia de Laġman”, “Provincia de Laġmān”, “provinco Lagmano”, “Velāyat-e Laghmān”, “Wilayat-e Laghman”, “استان لغمان”, “د لغمان ولايت”, “د لغمان ولایت”, “ولاية لقمان”, “ولايه لغمان”, “लगमान”, “लघमान”, and “লাগমান প্রদেশ”
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Laghman

Latitude
34.7833° or 34° 47′ north
Longitude
70.1833° or 70° 11′ east
Population
442,000
Elevation
1,592 metres (5,223 feet)
Open location code
8J6GQ5MM+88
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Laghman” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ላግማን”
  • Arabic: “ولاية لغمان”
  • Armenian: “Լաղման”
  • Asturian: “Laghman”
  • Asturian: “Lagmán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ləğman vilayəti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ləğman”
  • Basque: “Laghman probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Лагман”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Лагман”
  • Bengali: “লখমন প্রদেশ”
  • Bengali: “লাঘমান প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Лагман”
  • Catalan: “Província de Laghman”
  • Cebuano: “Wilāyat-e Laghmān”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای لەغمان”
  • Chinese: “拉格曼省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Lağman (vilâyet)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Lağman”
  • Czech: “Laghmán”
  • Danish: “Laghman”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Leğman”
  • Dutch: “Laghman”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Lagman”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Lagman”
  • Estonian: “Laghmāni provints”
  • Finnish: “Laghmanin maakunta”
  • French: “Laghman”
  • French: “Laghmân”
  • Georgian: “ლაღმანის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Laghman”
  • Greek: “Λαγκμάν”
  • Gujarati: “લઘમાન”
  • Hausa: “Laghman”
  • Hebrew: “לגמאן”
  • Hindi: “लग़मान प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “लग़मान”
  • Hungarian: “Laghman”
  • Indonesian: “Laghman”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Laghman”
  • Italian: “Laghman”
  • Japanese: “ラグマーン州”
  • Javanese: “Laghman”
  • Kannada: “ಲಗ್ಮನ್”
  • Kashmiri: “لغمان صوبہٕ”
  • Kazakh: “Лағман”
  • Kirghiz: “Лагман”
  • Korean: “라그만 주”
  • Korean: “라그만주”
  • Latvian: “Lagmāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Lagmano provincija”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Laghman”
  • Marathi: “लगमन”
  • Mazanderani: “لغمان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Laghman Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Provinsi Laghman”
  • Mongolian: “Лагман аймаг”
  • Mongolian: “Лагман муж”
  • Newari: “लगमान प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान”
  • Newari: “लगमान प्रान्त”
  • Northern Frisian: “Laghmaan”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون لغمان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Laghman”
  • Norwegian: “Laghman”
  • Oromo: “Laghman”
  • Ossetian: “Лагман (провинци)”
  • Ossetian: “Лагман”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਗਮਾਨ”
  • Persian: “ولایت لغمان”
  • Polish: “Laghman”
  • Portuguese: “Laghman”
  • Portuguese: “Laguemã”
  • Pushto: “لغمان ولايت”
  • Romanian: “provincia Laghman”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Laghman”
  • Russian: “Лагман”
  • Scots: “Laghman Province”
  • Serbian: “Лагман”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Лангмар”
  • Sindhi: “لغمان صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “ලග්හ්මාන්”
  • Somali: “Laghman”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لغمان ویلایت”
  • Spanish: “Laġmān”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Lagmán”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Laghman”
  • Swahili: “Laghman”
  • Swedish: “Laghman”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Laghman”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Laƣmon”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Лағмон”
  • Tamil: “லக்மான் மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “லாஃஹ்மான்”
  • Tatar: “Лагман”
  • Telugu: “లాగ్మన్”
  • Thai: “แลคห์แมน”
  • Turkish: “Lagman Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Lagman”
  • Uighur: “لاغمان ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Лагман”
  • Ukrainian: “Лаґман”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ لغمان”
  • Urdu: “لاگھمان صوبہ”
  • Uzbek: “Lagʻmon viloyati”
  • Vietnamese: “Laghman”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Laghman”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ لغمان”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉格曼省”
  • Yue Chinese: “勒曼省”

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