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Helmand Province

Helmand, known in ancient times as Hermand, Hirmand, and Hethumand, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, in the south of the country. It is the largest province by area, covering 58,584 square kilometres area.
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  • Type: State with 745,000 residents
  • Description: province of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Girishk Province”, “Grishk”, “Helmand”, “Helmend Province”, “Hillmand Province”, “Hilmand Province”, “Velāyat-e Helmand”, “Wilaya Helmand”, and “Wilāyat-e Helmand”
  • Neighbors:

Helmand Province

Latitude
31° north
Longitude
64° east
Population
745,000
Elevation
725 metres (2,379 feet)
Open location code
8J362222+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312470041
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1140043
Wiki­data ID
Q173821
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Satellite Map

Discover Helmand Province from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Helmand Province” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ولاية هلمند”
  • Arabic: “ولايه هلمند”
  • Armenian: “Հիլմենդ”
  • Asturian: “Helmand”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hilmənd vilayəti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hilmənd”
  • Basque: “Helmand probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Гільменд”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Гільменд”
  • Bengali: “هلمند”
  • Bengali: “হেলমান্দ প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Хелманд”
  • Catalan: “Província d’Helmand”
  • Catalan: “Província de Helmand”
  • Cebuano: “Helmand”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ھێلمەند”
  • Chinese: “Helmand Séng”
  • Chinese: “希奧曼省”
  • Chinese: “赫尔曼德省/赫爾曼德省”
  • Chinese: “赫尔曼德省”
  • Chinese: “赫爾曼德省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Helmend”
  • Czech: “Hilmand”
  • Czech: “Hílmand”
  • Danish: “Helmand Provinsen”
  • Danish: “Helmand-provinsen”
  • Danish: “Helmand”
  • Danish: “هلمند”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Hılmend”
  • Dutch: “Helmand”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة هيلماند”
  • Esperanto: “Helmando”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Helmand”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Helmand”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Helmando”
  • Estonian: “Helmandi provints”
  • Finnish: “Helmand”
  • Finnish: “Helmandin maakunta”
  • French: “Helmand”
  • French: “Province d’Helmand”
  • Georgian: “ჰელმანდის პროვინცია”
  • Georgian: “ჰილმენდის პროვინცია”
  • German: “AF-HEL”
  • German: “Helmand”
  • German: “Hilmand”
  • German: “Wilaya Helmand”
  • Greek: “Χελμάντ”
  • Gujarati: “હેલ્મંડ”
  • Hebrew: “הלמנד”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז הלמן”
  • Hindi: “हेलमंद प्रांत”
  • Hindi: “हेलमंद प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “हेलमंद”
  • Hindi: “हेलमन्द प्रान्त”
  • Hungarian: “Helmand tartomány”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Helmand”
  • Italian: “Helmand”
  • Japanese: “ヘルマンド州”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆಲ್ಮಾಂಡ್”
  • Kazakh: “Хилменд”
  • Korean: “헬만드 주”
  • Korean: “헬만드주”
  • Latvian: “Helmandas province”
  • Latvian: “Helmandas vilajets”
  • Lithuanian: “Helmando provincija”
  • Macedonian: “Хелменд”
  • Malay: “Helmand”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Helmand”
  • Malayalam: “ഹെൽമണ്ട് പ്രവിശ്യ”
  • Marathi: “हेलमंड”
  • Marathi: “हेलमांड प्रांत”
  • Mazanderani: “هلمند ولایت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Helmand Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Provinsi Helmand”
  • Mongolian: “Хильменд аймаг”
  • Mongolian: “Хильменд муж”
  • Newari: “हलमनद प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान”
  • Newari: “हलमनद प्रान्त”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون هلمند”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Helmand-provinsen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Helmand”
  • Norwegian: “Helmand”
  • Ossetian: “Гильменд (провинци)”
  • Ossetian: “Гильменд”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੇਲਮੰਦ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Persian: “استان هلمند”
  • Persian: “هلمند”
  • Persian: “ولایت هلمند”
  • Polish: “Helmand”
  • Portuguese: “Helmand”
  • Portuguese: “Helmande”
  • Portuguese: “Hilmande”
  • Pushto: “هلمند ولايت”
  • Pushto: “هلمند”
  • Romanian: “provincia Helmand”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Helmand”
  • Russian: “Гильменд”
  • Scots: “Helmand Province”
  • Serbian: “Provincija Helmand”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Хелманд”
  • Serbian: “Хелманд”
  • Sindhi: “ھيلمند صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “හෙල්මන්ඩ්”
  • Slovenian: “Helmand”
  • Slovenian: “Provinca Helmand”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هلمند ویلایت”
  • Spanish: “Helmand”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Helmand”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Hilmand”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Helmand”
  • Swedish: “Helmand”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Helmand”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Helmand”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Ҳелманд”
  • Tamil: “எல்மந்து மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “ஹெல்மண்டு மாகாணம்”
  • Telugu: “హెల్మండ్”
  • Thai: “เฮลซ์แมนด์”
  • Turkish: “Helmand”
  • Turkish: “Helmend Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Helmend”
  • Uighur: “ھەلمەند ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Гільменд”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ ہلمند”
  • Urdu: “ہلمند”
  • Uzbek: “Hilmand viloyati”
  • Vietnamese: “Helmand”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Helmand”
  • Welsh: “Helmand”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ ہلمند”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہلمند”
  • Wu Chinese: “赫尔曼德省”
  • Yue Chinese: “希奧曼省”

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