Fotur
Fotur is a village on the left bank of the Ab-i-Panj river in Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan. It is historically important, as it is the settlement in Wakhan territory nearest to the approximately two-mile-away border with Ishkashim District.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 436 residents
- Description: human settlement in Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Fotūr”, “Futur”, “Futūr”, and “Patur”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ishkashim and Sultan Eshkashim.
Ishkashim
Photo: Hans Birger Nilsen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ishkoshim, also Ishkashim, is a village and a jamoat in south-east Tajikistan. It is the seat of Ishkoshim District in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region.
Sultan Eshkashim
Photo: Bohndorf Film-Team, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ishkashim is a border town in Badakhshan province of Afghanistan, which has a population of around 12,120 people. The town serves as the capital of Ishkashim district.
Fotur
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Wakhan District, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Uzbek—“Fotur” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Fotur”
- Irish: “Fotur”
- Persian: “فتور”
- Portuguese: “Fotur”
- Russian: “Фтур”
- Uzbek: “Fotur”
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