Kandahar

Kandahar is one of the southern provinces of Afghanistan and is widely regarded as one of the country's most historically influential and politically significant regions.
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  • Type: State with 990,000 residents
  • Description: province of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “AF-KAN”, “Gendahar Province”, “Ghandahar Province”, “Kandahar Province”, “Kandahāras province”, “Kandahari provints”, “Kandhar”, “Kendehar”, “Province de Kandahar”, “provincia di Qandahar”, “provinco Kandaharo”, “Qandahar”, “Qandahar Province”, “Tỉnh Kandahar”, “Velāyat-e Kandahār”, “Velāyat-e Kandehār”, “Velāyat-e Qandahār”, “Wilāyat-e Kandahār”, “استان قندهار”, “د کندهار ولايت”, “د کندهار ولایت”, “صوبہ کندھار”, “قندھار”, “کندھار”, “कान्दाहार प्रदेश”, “காண்டஹார்”, and “กันดะฮาร์”
  • Neighbors:

Kandahar

Latitude
30.991° or 30° 59′ 28″ north
Longitude
65.7069° or 65° 42′ 25″ east
Population
990,000
Elevation
1,216 metres (3,990 feet)
Open location code
8J27XPR4+CP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312470034
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1138335
Wiki­data ID
Q173808
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Kandahar” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ካንዳሃር”
  • Arabic: “ولاية قندهار”
  • Armenian: “Ղանդահար վիլայեթ”
  • Asturian: “Kandahar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qəndəhar vilayəti”
  • Banjar: “Kandahar”
  • Basque: “Kandahar probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Кандагар”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Кандагар”
  • Bengali: “কান্দাহার প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Кандахар”
  • Catalan: “província de Kandahar”
  • Catalan: “Província de Kandahar”
  • Cebuano: “Kandahār (lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Kandahār”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای قەندەھار”
  • Chinese: “坎大哈省/堪達哈省”
  • Chinese: “坎大哈省”
  • Chinese: “堪達哈省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Qandehar (vilâyet)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Qandehar”
  • Czech: “Kandahár”
  • Danish: “Kandahar”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Qendehar”
  • Dutch: “Kandahar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ولايه قندهار”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Kandahar”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Kandahar”
  • Estonian: “Kandahāri provints”
  • Finnish: “Kandaharin maakunta”
  • French: “Kandahar”
  • French: “Kandahâr”
  • Georgian: “ყანდაარის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Kandahar”
  • Greek: “Κανταχάρ”
  • Gujarati: “કંદાહર”
  • Hausa: “Kandahar”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז קנדהאר”
  • Hebrew: “קנדהאר”
  • Hindi: “कंदहार प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “कांधार प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “कांधार”
  • Hungarian: “Kandahár”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Kandahar”
  • Italian: “provincia di Kandahar”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Kandahar”
  • Japanese: “カンダハール州”
  • Javanese: “Kandahar”
  • Kannada: “ಕಂಧಹಾರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Қандағар”
  • Kazakh: “Қандахар”
  • Kirghiz: “Кандахар”
  • Korean: “칸다하르 주”
  • Korean: “칸다하르주”
  • Latvian: “Kandahāras vilajets”
  • Lithuanian: “Kandaharo provincija”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Kandahar”
  • Marathi: “कंदाहार”
  • Mazanderani: “قندهار ولایت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kandahar Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Provinsi Kandahar”
  • Mongolian: “Кандахар аймаг”
  • Mongolian: “Кандахар муж”
  • Newari: “कनदेआर प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान”
  • Newari: “कनदेआर प्रान्त”
  • Newari: “कान्दाहार प्रान्त”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kandahaar”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prowins Kandahaar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kandahar”
  • Norwegian: “Kandahar”
  • Oromo: “Kandahar”
  • Ossetian: “Кандагар”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਂਧਾਰ”
  • Persian: “ولایت قندهار”
  • Polish: “Kandahar”
  • Portuguese: “Candaar”
  • Portuguese: “Kandahar”
  • Pushto: “کندهار ولايت”
  • Pushto: “کندهار” (historical)
  • Romanian: “provincia Kandahar”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Kandahar”
  • Russian: “Кандагар”
  • Scots: “Kandahar Province”
  • Serbian: “Кандахар”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Кандахар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kandaharska pokrajina”
  • Sindhi: “قنڌار صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “කන්දහාර්”
  • Slovenian: “Kandahar”
  • Somali: “Kandahar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قندهار ویلایت”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قندهار ویلایتی”
  • Spanish: “Kandahar”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Kandahar”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Kandahar”
  • Swahili: “Kandahar”
  • Swedish: “Kandahar”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Kandahar”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Qandahor”
  • Tajik: “вилояти Қандаҳор”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Қандаҳор”
  • Tamil: “கந்தகார் மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Қандахар”
  • Telugu: “కాందహార్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดกันดะฮาร์”
  • Turkish: “Kandehar Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Kandehar”
  • Uighur: “قانداھار ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Кандагар”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ قندھار”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ قندہار”
  • Uzbek: “Qandahor viloyati”
  • Vietnamese: “Kandahar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kandahar”
  • Welsh: “Kandahar”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ قندھار”
  • Wu Chinese: “坎大哈省”
  • Yue Chinese: “坎大哈省”

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