Chak District
Chak is a district in the southern part of Maidan Wardak Province of Afghanistan. Its population was estimated at 83,376 in 2005, the last year for which figures are available.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: district of Maidan Wardak, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Cake Wardak”, “Chak-e Vardak”, “Chak-e Wardak”, “Chaki District”, and “Chaki Wardak”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chaki Wardak Dam.
Chaki Wardak Dam
Dam
The Chak Dam, referred to by some as Band-e Chak, is located near Chak, which is the center of Chak District in Maidan Wardak Province of Afghanistan. It is a hydroelectric gravity dam built by German engineers in 1938.
Chak District
- Categories: district of Afghanistan and locality
- Location: Chaki Wardak, Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.10769° or 34° 6′ 28″ northLongitude
68.57866° or 68° 34′ 43″ eastElevation
2,202 metres (7,224 feet)Open location code
8J6C4H5H+3FOpenStreetMap ID
node 4415166979OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Chak District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشك وردك”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة شك وردك”
- Bengali: “চকি ওয়ারদক জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Chak-e Wardak”
- Dutch: “Chaki Wardak”
- French: “Chaki Wardak”
- German: “Chaki Wardak”
- Italian: “distretto di Chaki Wardak”
- Italian: “Distretto di Chaki Wardak”
- Malay: “Daerah Chaki Wardak”
- Persian: “ولسوالی چک وردک”
- Portuguese: “Chaki wardak”
- Portuguese: “Chaki Wardak”
- Pushto: “چک ولسوالۍ”
- Pushto: “د چک ولسوالۍ”
- Swedish: “Chak-e Wardak”
- Vietnamese: “Chaki Wardak”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Chaki Wardak, Vardak”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع چک”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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