Gereshk
Grishk is a city in the southern Helmand Province of Afghanistan. It is within the jurisdiction of Grishk District and has an estimated population of 146,506 people.- Type: Locality with 43,600 residents
- Description: human settlement in Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Geresk”, “Girishk”, “Girišk”, “Grishk”, “Nahr-e Sarāj”, “ギリシク”, and “ゲレシュク”
Gereshk
- Categories: human settlement, city, and small city
- Location: Grishk District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.82089° or 31° 49′ 15″ north
Longitude
64.57005° or 64° 34′ 12″ east
Population
43,600
Elevation
830 metres (2,723 feet)
Open location code
8J36RHCC+92
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Gereshk” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ገረሽክ”
- Arabic: “گریشک”
- Armenian: “Գրիշք”
- Azerbaijani: “Gereshk”
- Bengali: “গেরেশক”
- Bengali: “গ্রিশক”
- Catalan: “Girishk”
- Cebuano: “Gereshk”
- Chinese: “蓋雷什克”
- Danish: “Gereshk”
- Dutch: “Girishk”
- Estonian: “Girishk”
- Finnish: “Gerešk”
- French: “Gereshk”
- Ga: “Ghist”
- German: “Gereshk”
- German: “Girischk”
- German: “Girishk”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ghist”
- Hausa: “Gereshk”
- Hausa: “Ghist”
- Hindi: “गेरेशक”
- Indonesian: “Gereshk”
- Irish: “Girishk”
- Japanese: “ギリシュク”
- Japanese: “ゲレシク”
- Javanese: “Gereshk”
- Kazakh: “Герешк”
- Kirghiz: “Герешк”
- Malay: “Gereshk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gereshk”
- Oromo: “Gereshk”
- Panjabi: “ਗੇਰੇਸ਼ਕ”
- Persian: “گرشک”
- Persian: “گریشک”
- Polish: “Gereszk”
- Portuguese: “Gereshk”
- Pushto: “ګرشک”
- Pushto: “گریشک”
- Russian: “Герешк”
- Russian: “Гиришк”
- Somali: “Gereshk”
- Spanish: “Gereshk”
- Spanish: “Gerešk”
- Swahili: “Gereshk”
- Swedish: “Gereshk”
- Tajik: “Герешк”
- Tatar: “Герешк”
- Turkish: “Gereshk”
- Turkish: “Gereşk”
- Twi: “Ghist”
- Urdu: “گرشک، افغانستان”
- Urdu: “گریشک”
- Uzbek: “Gereshk”
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