Karukh
Karukh is a town and the center of Karukh District, Herat Province, Afghanistan. The population is more than 18,800 people. The town is located at 1320 m altitude, 50 km northeast of Herat.Karukh's busy bazaar is continuously mentioned in travelogues down through the centuries.- Type: Town with 18,800 residents
- Description: human settlement in Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Karokh”, “Karrukh”, and “Kaṟukh”
Karukh
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Karukh District, Herat Province, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.49135° or 34° 29′ 29″ north
Longitude
62.59186° or 62° 35′ 31″ east
Population
18,800
Elevation
1,340 metres (4,396 feet)
Open location code
8J64FHRR+GP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Karukh” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ካሩክ”
- Arabic: “كاروخ”
- Arabic: “كرخ”
- Asturian: “Karuh”
- Asturian: “Karukh”
- Azerbaijani: “Karukh”
- Bengali: “কারুখ”
- Catalan: “Karukh”
- Cebuano: “Karukh”
- Dutch: “Karukh”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كرخ”
- Finnish: “Karukh”
- French: “Karukh”
- German: “Karukh”
- Hausa: “Karukh”
- Hindi: “करुख”
- Indonesian: “Karukh”
- Irish: “Karukh”
- Japanese: “カルフ”
- Javanese: “Karukh”
- Kazakh: “Қарух”
- Kirghiz: “Карух”
- Malay: “Karukh”
- Oromo: “Karukh”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਰੁਖ”
- Persian: “کاروخ”
- Persian: “کرخ (هرات)”
- Persian: “کرخ”
- Portuguese: “Karukh”
- Pushto: “کاروخ”
- Russian: “Карух”
- Somali: “Karukh”
- Spanish: “Karuh”
- Spanish: “Karukh”
- Swahili: “Karukh”
- Swedish: “Karukh”
- Tajik: “Карух”
- Tatar: “Карух”
- Turkish: “Karukh”
- Urdu: “کاروخ”
- Urdu: “کروخ، افغانستان”
- Uzbek: “Karukh tumani”
- Uzbek: “Karukh”
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