Farah Province

Farah is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the western part of the country on the border with . It is a spacious and sparsely populated province, divided into eleven districts and contains hundreds of villages.
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  • Type: province of Afghanistan with 573,000 residents
  • Description: province of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: Farah”, “Ferrah Province”, “Velāyat-e Farāh”, and “Wilāyat-e Farāh

Farah Province

Latitude
32.5° or 32° 30′ north
Longitude
62.5° or 62° 30′ east
Population
573,000
Elevation
1,081 metres (3,547 feet)
Open location code
8J44GG22+22
Geo­Names ID
1142263
Wiki­data ID
Q180330
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Farah Province” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: ولاية فراه
  • Asturian: Farah
  • Azerbaijani: Fərah vilayəti
  • Azerbaijani: Fərah
  • Basque: Farahko probintzia
  • Belarusian: Правінцыя Фарах
  • Belarusian: Фарах
  • Bengali: ফারাহ প্রদেশ
  • Bulgarian: Фарах
  • Catalan: província de Farah
  • Catalan: Província de Farah
  • Cebuano: Farāh (lalawigan sa Apganistan)
  • Cebuano: Farāh
  • Central Kurdish: پارێزگای فەراھ
  • Chinese: Farah Séng
  • Chinese: 法拉省
  • Chinese: 法拿省
  • Crimean Tatar: Ferah (vilâyet)
  • Crimean Tatar: Ferah
  • Czech: Faráh
  • Danish: Farah
  • Dimli (individual language): Ferah
  • Dimli (individual language): Wılayetê Ferahi
  • Dutch: Farah
  • Esperanto: Faraho
  • Esperanto: provinco Farah
  • Esperanto: Provinco Farah
  • Esperanto: provinco Faraho
  • Estonian: Farāhi provints
  • Finnish: Farahin maakunta
  • French: Farah
  • French: Farâh
  • French: Province de Farah
  • Georgian: ფარაჰის პროვინცია
  • German: AF-FRA
  • German: Faarax
  • German: Farah
  • Greek: Φαράχ
  • Gujarati: ફરાહ
  • Hebrew: פראה
  • Hindi: फ़राह प्रांत
  • Hindi: फ़राह प्रान्त
  • Hindi: फ़राह
  • Indonesian: Provinsi Farah
  • Italian: Farah
  • Italian: provincia di Farah
  • Italian: Provincia di Farah
  • Japanese: ファラー州
  • Kannada: ಫರಾಹ್
  • Kazakh: Фарах
  • Korean: 파라주
  • Latvian: Farāha
  • Latvian: Farāhas vilajets
  • Lithuanian: Faraho provincija
  • Malay: Wilayah Farah
  • Marathi: फराह
  • Marathi: फारा प्रांत
  • Mazanderani: فراه ولایت
  • Min Nan Chinese: Farah Séng
  • Minangkabau: Provinsi Farah
  • Mongolian: Фарах аймаг
  • Mongolian: Фарах муж
  • Newari: फराए प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान
  • Newari: फराए प्रान्त
  • Northern Luri: آستون فراہ
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Farah
  • Norwegian: Farah
  • Ossetian: Фарах (провинци)
  • Ossetian: Фарах
  • Persian: د فراه ولايت
  • Persian: ولایت فراه
  • Polish: Farah
  • Portuguese: Farah
  • Pushto: د فراه ولايت
  • Pushto: فراه ولايت
  • Romanian: provincia Farah
  • Romanian: Provincia Farah
  • Russian: Фарах
  • Scots: Farah Province
  • Serbian: Provincija Farah
  • Serbian: Провинција Фарах
  • Serbian: Фарах
  • Sindhi: فرا صوبو
  • Sinhala: ෆාරා
  • Slovak: Faráh
  • Slovenian: Farah
  • South Azerbaijani: فراه ویلایت
  • Spanish: Farāh
  • Spanish: Provincia de Farah
  • Spanish: Provincia de Farāh
  • Sundanese: Propinsi Farah
  • Swedish: Farah
  • Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Farah
  • Tajik: Vilojati Faroh
  • Tajik: Вилояти Фароҳ
  • Tamil: பரா மாகாணம்
  • Tamil: பாரா
  • Telugu: ఫరా
  • Thai: จังหวัดฟาราห์
  • Turkish: Farah, Afganistan
  • Turkish: Ferah Vilayeti
  • Turkish: Ferah, Afganistan
  • Turkish: Ferah
  • Tuvinian: Фараа провинциязы
  • Uighur: فەراھ ۋىلايىتى
  • Ukrainian: Фарах
  • Urdu: صوبہ فراہ
  • Uzbek: Farah
  • Uzbek: Faroh viloyati
  • Vietnamese: Farah
  • Waray (Philippines): Farah
  • Welsh: Farah
  • Western Panjabi: صوبہ فراہ
  • Western Panjabi: ضلع فراہ
  • Wu Chinese: 法拉省
  • Yue Chinese: 法拿省

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