Herat Province

Herat, or Harat, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the western part of the country. Together with , , and provinces, it makes up the north-western region of Afghanistan.
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  • Type: State with 1,180,000 residents
  • Description: province of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “AF-HER”, “Harat”, “Herat”, “Hirat”, “Provinca Herat”, “provincia de Herat”, “Província de Herat”, “Província de Herāt”, “Provincie Herát”, “provinco Herato”, “Velāyat-e Herāt”, “Wilāyat-e Herāt”, “Вилояти Ҳерот”, “استان هرات”, “د هرات ولایت”, “هرات”, “ھرات”, “ولايه هرات”, and “हेरात प्रदेश”
  • Neighbors: and

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Guzarah.

Town
Guzara is a village and the center of in Herat Province, on at 992 m altitude. The Herat Airfield is very close to the village to the east.

Herat Province

Latitude
34.1577° or 34° 9′ 28″ north
Longitude
62.2906° or 62° 17′ 26″ east
Population
1,180,000
Elevation
1,088 metres (3,570 feet)
Open location code
8J64575R+36
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312470046
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1140025
Wiki­data ID
Q182844
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Herat Province” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሄራት”
  • Arabic: “ولاية هراة”
  • Arabic: “ولاية هرات”
  • Armenian: “Հերաթ”
  • Asturian: “Herat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Herat vilayəti”
  • Basque: “Herat probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Герат”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Герат”
  • Bengali: “হেরাত প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Херат”
  • Catalan: “província d’Herat”
  • Catalan: “Província d’Herat”
  • Cebuano: “Herāt”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ھێرات”
  • Chinese: “赫拉特省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Herat (vilâyet)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Herat”
  • Czech: “Herát”
  • Danish: “Herat”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Hırat”
  • Dutch: “Herat”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Herat”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Herat”
  • Estonian: “Herāti provints”
  • Finnish: “Heratin maakunta”
  • French: “Hérat”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Herat”
  • Georgian: “ჰერათი”
  • Georgian: “ჰერათის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Herat”
  • Greek: “Χεράτ”
  • Gujarati: “હેરાત”
  • Hausa: “Herat”
  • Hausa: “Lardin Herat”
  • Hebrew: “הראת”
  • Hindi: “हेरात प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “हेरात”
  • Hungarian: “Herát”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Herat”
  • Italian: “provincia di Herat”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Herat”
  • Japanese: “ヘラート州”
  • Javanese: “Herat”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆರಾಟ್”
  • Kazakh: “Герат”
  • Kirghiz: “Герат”
  • Korean: “헤라트 주”
  • Korean: “헤라트주”
  • Latin: “Aria”
  • Latvian: “Herātas vilajets”
  • Lithuanian: “Herato provincija”
  • Malay: “Daerah Hirat”
  • Malay: “Herat”
  • Marathi: “हेरात प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “हेरात”
  • Mazanderani: “هرات ولایت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Herat Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Provinsi Herat”
  • Mongolian: “Херат аймаг”
  • Mongolian: “Херат муж”
  • Newari: “हरात प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान”
  • Newari: “हरात प्रान्त”
  • Northern Frisian: “Heraat”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prowins Heraat”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون ھرات”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Herat”
  • Norwegian: “Herat”
  • Oromo: “Herat”
  • Ossetian: “Герат (провинци)”
  • Ossetian: “Герат”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੇਰਾਤ ਪ੍ਰਾਂਤ”
  • Persian: “ولایت هرات”
  • Polish: “Herat”
  • Portuguese: “Herat”
  • Portuguese: “Herate”
  • Pushto: “هرات ولايت”
  • Romanian: “provincia Herat”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Herat”
  • Russian: “Герат”
  • Saraiki: “صوبہ ہرات”
  • Scots: “Herat Province”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Херат”
  • Serbian: “Херат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Heratska pokrajina”
  • Sindhi: “ھرات صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “හෙරට්”
  • Slovenian: “Herat”
  • Somali: “Herat”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هرات ویلایت”
  • Spanish: “Herat”
  • Spanish: “Herāt”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Herat”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Herat”
  • Swahili: “Herat”
  • Swedish: “Herat”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Herat”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Hirot”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Ҳирот”
  • Tamil: “எறாத்து மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “ஹேரத்”
  • Tatar: “Герат”
  • Telugu: “హెరాట్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดเฮรอต”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดเฮรัท”
  • Turkish: “Herat Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Herat”
  • Tuvinian: “Герат провинциязы”
  • Uighur: “ھىرات ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Герат”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ ہرات”
  • Uzbek: “Hirot viloyati”
  • Vietnamese: “Herat”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Herat”
  • Welsh: “Herat”
  • Western Armenian: “Հերաթ”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ ھرات”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ ہرات”
  • Wu Chinese: “赫拉特省”
  • Yue Chinese: “赫拉特省”

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