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. Kandahar is also the second largest city in Afghanistan after the capital Kabul, and was the first capital of the modern state of Afghanistan in the 18th century.
Karz
- Categories: human settlement and hamlet
- Location: Kandahar District, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Russian—“Karz” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կարզ”
- Catalan: “Karz”
- Dutch: “Karz”
- Irish: “Karz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karz”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karz”
- Persian: “کرز، قندهار”
- Pushto: “کرز”
- Russian: “Карз”
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