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Bamyan

Bamyan, also spelled Bamiyan, Bāmīān or Bāmyān, is one of the 34 provinces of with the city of as its center, located in central parts of Afghanistan.
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  • Type: State with 504,000 residents
  • Description: province of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Bāmīān”, “Bamian Province”, “Bamiyan Province”, “Bāmyān”, “Bamyan Province”, “Velāyat-e Bāmīān”, and “Wilayat-e Bamyan”

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 Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Bamyan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ولاية باميان”
  • Arabic: “ولايه باميان”
  • Armenian: “Բամիան”
  • Asturian: “Bamiyan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bamiyan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bamyan vilayəti”
  • Basque: “Bamijan probintzia”
  • Basque: “Bamiyan”
  • Belarusian: “Баміян”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Баміян”
  • Bengali: “বামিয়ান প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Бамиян”
  • Bulgarian: “Бамян”
  • Catalan: “Província de Bamian”
  • Catalan: “província de Bamiyan”
  • Catalan: “Província de Bamiyan”
  • Cebuano: “Wilāyat-e Bāmyān”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای بامیان”
  • Chinese: “Bamyan Séng”
  • Chinese: “巴米扬省/巴米揚省”
  • Chinese: “巴米扬省”
  • Chinese: “巴米揚省”
  • Chinese: “梵衍那国”
  • Chinese: “梵衍那國”
  • Chinese: “犯引”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bamyan (vilâyet)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bamyan”
  • Czech: “Bamijánská provincie”
  • Czech: “Bamján”
  • Czech: “Bámján”
  • Czech: “Bamjánská provincie”
  • Czech: “Provincie Bamiján”
  • Czech: “Provincie Bamján”
  • Danish: “Bamiyan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bamyan”
  • Dutch: “Bamyan”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Bamijan”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Bamijano”
  • Estonian: “Bamiani provints”
  • Estonian: “Bāmīāni provints”
  • Estonian: “Bāmyāni provints”
  • Finnish: “Bamiyanin maakunta”
  • French: “Bamiyan”
  • French: “Bâmiyân”
  • Georgian: “ბამიანის პროვინცია”
  • German: “AF-BAM”
  • German: “Bamian”
  • German: “Bamiyan”
  • Greek: “Μπαμιάν”
  • Gujarati: “બામયાન”
  • Hebrew: “באמיאן”
  • Hindi: “बामयान प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “बामियान प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “बामियान”
  • Hungarian: “Bámiján tartomány”
  • Hungarian: “Bámján”
  • Indonesian: “Bamiyan”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Bamiyan”
  • Italian: “Bamian”
  • Italian: “provincia di Bamiyan”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Bamiyan”
  • Japanese: “バーミアーン州”
  • Japanese: “バーミアン州”
  • Japanese: “バーミヤーン州”
  • Japanese: “バーミヤン州”
  • Kabyle: “Bamyan”
  • Kannada: “ಬಮಯಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Бамиан”
  • Korean: “바미안 주”
  • Korean: “바미안주”
  • Korean: “바미얀 주”
  • 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”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون بامیان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bamiyan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bamiyan-provinsen”
  • Norwegian: “Bamiyan”
  • Ossetian: “Бамиан (провинци)”
  • Ossetian: “Бамиан”
  • Persian: “استان بامیان”
  • Persian: “دباميان ولايت”
  • Persian: “ولایت بامیان”
  • Polish: “Bamian”
  • Portuguese: “Bamiã”
  • Portuguese: “Bamian”
  • Portuguese: “Bamiyan”
  • Pushto: “باميان ولايت”
  • Pushto: “د باميان ولايت”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Bamyan”
  • Russian: “Бамиан”
  • Russian: “Бамиян”
  • Scots: “Bamyan Province”
  • Serbian: “Бамијан”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Бамијан”
  • Sindhi: “باميان”
  • Sinhala: “බම්යන්”
  • Slovak: “Bámján”
  • Slovenian: “AF-BAM”
  • Slovenian: “Bamjan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بامیان ویلایت”
  • Spanish: “Bamiyán”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Bamiyan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Bamiyán”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Bamiyān”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Bāmiyān”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Bamyan”
  • Swedish: “Bamian”
  • Swedish: “Bamiyan”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Bamyan”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Bomijon”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Бомиён”
  • Tamil: “பாமியான் மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Бамиан вилаяте”
  • Telugu: “బమ్యన్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดบามียัน”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดบามียาน”
  • Thai: “บามียัน”
  • Thai: “บามียาน”
  • 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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