Khost
Khost is a city in eastern Afghanistan, serving as the capital of Khost Province. The city is within the jurisdiction of Khost District and has an estimated population of 170,615 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 12,000 residents
- Description: city in Khost Province, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Khowst”, “Matun”, “Matūn”, and “متون”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Khost Great Mosque and Khost.
Khost Great Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Great Mosque of Khost, or simply the Khost Mosque, is the largest mosque in the city of Khost, in southeastern Afghanistan. It can hold up to 2,000 worshipers during any prayer.
Khost
Aerodrome
Khost International Airport, also referred to as Khost Airport, is located in the eastern section of Khost, which is the capital of Khost Province in Afghanistan.
Khost
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Khost District, Khowst, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.3391° or 33° 20′ 21″ northLongitude
69.9206° or 69° 55′ 14″ eastPopulation
12,000Elevation
1,183 metres (3,881 feet)Open location code
8J5F8WQC+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 312593138OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1136469Wikidata ID
Q386682
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Khost” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خوست”
- Armenian: “Խոստ”
- Asturian: “Khost”
- Azerbaijani: “Xost (şəhər)”
- Azerbaijani: “Xost”
- Basque: “Khost”
- Belarusian: “Хост”
- Bengali: “খোস্ত”
- Catalan: “Khost”
- Cebuano: “Khōst (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Khōst”
- Chinese: “霍斯特”
- Czech: “Chóst”
- Danish: “Khost”
- Dutch: “Chost”
- Dutch: “Khost”
- Esperanto: “Ĥost”
- Esperanto: “Ĥosto”
- Estonian: “Khōst”
- Estonian: “Khowst”
- Finnish: “Khost”
- Finnish: “Khust”
- French: “Khost”
- Georgian: “ხოსტი”
- German: “Chost”
- Greek: “Χοστ”
- Gujarati: “ખોસ્ટ”
- Hausa: “Khōst, Afghanistan”
- Hebrew: “ח’וסת (אפגניסטן)”
- Hebrew: “ח’וסת”
- Hindi: “खोस्त”
- Hindi: “ख़ोस्त”
- Indonesian: “Khost”
- Irish: “Khost”
- Italian: “Khowst”
- Japanese: “ケースト”
- Japanese: “ホースト (アフガニスタン)”
- Japanese: “ホースト”
- Japanese: “ホースト市”
- Kannada: “ಖೋಸ್ಟ್”
- Korean: “호스트”
- Latvian: “Hosta”
- Lithuanian: “Chostas”
- Malay: “Khost”
- Marathi: “खोस्ट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khost”
- Norwegian: “Khost”
- Panjabi: “ਖੋਸਤ”
- Persian: “خوست”
- Polish: “Chost”
- Portuguese: “Khost”
- Pushto: “خوست”
- Russian: “Хост”
- Sinhala: “ක්හෝස්ට්”
- Spanish: “Jost”
- Swedish: “Khost”
- Tamil: “கோஸ்ட்”
- Telugu: “ఖోస్ట్”
- Thai: “โคลส”
- Turkish: “Host”
- Ukrainian: “Хост”
- Urdu: “خوست”
- Uzbek: “Xost”
- Venetian: “Khowst”
- Vietnamese: “Khost”
- Waray (Philippines): “Khost”
- Western Panjabi: “خوست”
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