Bamyan

Bamyan, also spelled Bamiyan, Bāmīān or Bāmyān, is one of the 34 provinces of with the city of as its center, and predominately inhabited by the Hazara people, located in central parts of Afghanistan.
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  • Type: State with 504,000 residents
  • Description: province of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “AF-BAM”, “Bāmīān”, “Bamian Province”, “Bamiani provints”, “Bamijánská provincie”, “Bamiyan Province”, “Bamjánská provincie”, “Bāmyān”, “Bamyan Province”, “Província de Bamian”, “Provincia de Bamiyan”, “Provincia de Bamiyān”, “Provincia de Bāmiyān”, “Provincie Bamiján”, “Provincie Bamján”, “Velāyat-e Bāmīān”, “Wilayat-e Bamyan”, “استان بامیان”, “د باميان ولايت”, “دباميان ولايت”, “ولايه باميان”, “บามียัน”, “บามียาน”, “바미얀 주”, “バーミアーン州”, “バーミアン州”, “バーミヤン州”, “梵衍那国”, “梵衍那國”, and “犯引”

Bamyan

Latitude
34.75° or 34° 45′ north
Longitude
67.25° or 67° 15′ east
Population
504,000
Elevation
3,042 metres (9,980 feet)
Open location code
8J69Q722+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312470062
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1147239
Wiki­data ID
Q171382
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Bamyan” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ባሚያን”
  • Arabic: “ولاية باميان”
  • Armenian: “Բամիան”
  • Asturian: “Bamiyan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bamiyan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bamyan vilayəti”
  • Basque: “Bamijan probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Баміян”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Баміян”
  • Bengali: “বামিয়ান প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Бамиян”
  • Bulgarian: “Бамян”
  • Catalan: “província de Bamiyan”
  • Catalan: “Província de Bamiyan”
  • Cebuano: “Wilāyat-e Bāmyān”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای بامیان”
  • Chinese: “巴米扬省/巴米揚省”
  • Chinese: “巴米扬省”
  • Chinese: “巴米揚省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bamyan (vilâyet)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bamyan”
  • Czech: “Bamján”
  • Czech: “Bámján”
  • Danish: “Bamiyan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bamyan”
  • Dutch: “Bamyan”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Bamijan”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Bamijano”
  • Estonian: “Bāmīāni provints”
  • Estonian: “Bāmyāni provints”
  • Finnish: “Bamiyanin maakunta”
  • French: “Bamiyan”
  • French: “Bâmiyân”
  • Georgian: “ბამიანის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Bamiyan”
  • Greek: “Μπαμιάν”
  • Gujarati: “બામયાન”
  • Hausa: “Bamyan”
  • Hebrew: “באמיאן”
  • Hindi: “बामयान प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “बामियान”
  • Hungarian: “Bámiján tartomány”
  • Hungarian: “Bámján”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Bamiyan”
  • Italian: “provincia di Bamiyan”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Bamiyan”
  • Japanese: “バーミヤーン州”
  • Javanese: “Bamyan”
  • Kabyle: “Bamyan”
  • Kannada: “ಬಮಯಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Бамиан”
  • Kazakh: “Бамян”
  • Kirghiz: “Бамиян”
  • Korean: “바미안 주”
  • Korean: “바미안주”
  • Latvian: “Bāmijānas province”
  • Latvian: “Bāmijānas vilajets”
  • Lithuanian: “Bamijano provincija”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Bamiyan”
  • Malayalam: “ബാമിയാൻ പ്രവിശ്യ”
  • Marathi: “बामयान”
  • Marathi: “बामियान प्रांत”
  • Mazanderani: “بامیان ولایت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bamyan Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Provinsi Bamyan”
  • Mongolian: “Бамиан аймаг”
  • Mongolian: “Бамиан муж”
  • Newari: “बामियान प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान”
  • Newari: “बामियान प्रान्त”
  • Northern Frisian: “Baamijaan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prowins Baamijaan”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون بامیان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bamiyan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bamiyan-provinsen”
  • Norwegian: “Bamiyan”
  • Oromo: “Bamiyaan”
  • Ossetian: “Бамиан (провинци)”
  • Ossetian: “Бамиан”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਮੀਆਨ”
  • Persian: “ولایت بامیان”
  • Polish: “Bamian”
  • Portuguese: “Bamiã”
  • Portuguese: “Bamiyan”
  • Pushto: “باميان ولايت”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Bamyan”
  • Russian: “Бамиан”
  • Scots: “Bamyan Province”
  • Serbian: “Бамијан”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Бамијан”
  • Sindhi: “باميان”
  • Sinhala: “බම්යන්”
  • Slovak: “Bámján”
  • Slovenian: “Bamjan”
  • Somali: “Bamiyaan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بامیان ویلایت”
  • Spanish: “Bamiyán”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Bamiyán”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Bamyan”
  • Swahili: “Bamyan”
  • Swedish: “Bamiyan”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Bamyan”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Bomijon”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Бомиён”
  • Tamil: “பாமியான் மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Бамиан вилаяте”
  • Tatar: “Бамиян”
  • Telugu: “బమ్యన్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดบอมียอน”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดบามียาน”
  • Turkish: “Bamyan ili”
  • Turkish: “Bamyan Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Bamyan”
  • Uighur: “باميان ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Баміан”
  • Urdu: “بامیان”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ بامیان”
  • Uzbek: “Bomiyon viloyati”
  • Uzbek: “Bomiyon”
  • Vietnamese: “Bamyan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bamyan”
  • Welsh: “Bamiyan”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ بامیان”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴米扬省”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴米揚省”

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