Karz
Karz is a village in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, near the city of Kandahar. The Afghan former president, Hamid Karzai, is from Karz. His father is buried there. On July 29, 2014, his cousin, Hashmat Karzai, was killed by a suicide bomber there.- Type: Locality
- Description: human settlement in Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Kars” and “Karz, Kandahar”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kandahar.
Kandahar
Kandahar is the capital of Kandahar province, and the largest city in Southern Afghanistan.
Karz
- Categories: human settlement and hamlet
- Location: Kandahar District, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.57178° or 31° 34′ 18″ north
Longitude
65.72946° or 65° 43′ 46″ east
Elevation
991 metres (3,251 feet)
Open location code
8J37HPCH+PQ
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Urdu—“Karz” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կարզ”
- Catalan: “Karz”
- Dutch: “Karz”
- Irish: “Karz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karz”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karz”
- Persian: “کرز، قندهار”
- Persian: “کرز”
- Pushto: “کرز”
- Russian: “Карз”
- Urdu: “کارز، قندھار”
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