Farah River
The Farah River is a river in western Afghanistan. The river originates in the Band-e Bayan Range in the eastern part of Ghor Province, and flows for 560 kilometres to the Helmand swamps on the Afghanistan-Iran border.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Daṟyā-i-Faṟah”, “Daryā-ye Farāh”, “Daryā-ye Farāh Rūd”, “Faṟah Rōd”, “Faṟāh Ṟōḏ”, “Farah Rud River”, “Farrah Rūd”, “Harīrōd”, “دریای فراه”, “فړه رود”, and “هریرود”
Farah River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Farah Province, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Farah River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Farah River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر فراه”
- Asturian: “Ríu Farah”
- Azerbaijani: “Fərəhrud”
- Belarusian: “Фарахруд”
- Bulgarian: “Фарахруд”
- Catalan: “riu Farah”
- Catalan: “Riu Farah”
- Cebuano: “Farāh Rōd”
- Chinese: “法拉河”
- Czech: “Farahrúd”
- Czech: “Faráhrúd”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر فراه”
- Finnish: “Farah”
- French: “Farah Roud”
- French: “Farâh”
- German: “Farāh Rud”
- Hebrew: “נהר פרח”
- Hindi: “फ़राह नदी”
- Irish: “Abhainn Farah”
- Lithuanian: “Farahrudas”
- Persian: “فراه رود”
- Polish: “Farah Rod”
- Polish: “Farah”
- Polish: “Farahrud”
- Pushto: “Farāh Rūd”
- Pushto: “د فراه سیند”
- Russian: “Фарах-Руд”
- Russian: “Фарахруд”
- Slovak: “Faráh”
- Slovak: “Farráh”
- Spanish: “Rio Farah”
- Spanish: “Río Farah”
- Swedish: “Darya-ye Farah”
- Swedish: “Farah rud”
- Tamil: “பரா ஆறு”
- Turkish: “Ferah Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Фарахруд”
- Welsh: “Afon Farah”
- Western Panjabi: “دریائے فراہ”
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