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Balkh

Balkh is one of the northern provinces of Afghanistan and is widely regarded as one of the country's most historically significant and culturally rich regions.
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  • Type: State with 1,250,000 residents
  • Description: province of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Balkh Province”, “Belkh Province”, “Mazar-i-Sharif”, “Velāyat-e Balkh”, and “Wilāyat-e Balkh”
  • Neighbors: and

Balkh

Latitude
36.7992° or 36° 47′ 57″ north
Longitude
67.2373° or 67° 14′ 14″ east
Population
1,250,000
Elevation
340 metres (1,115 feet)
Open location code
8J89Q6XP+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312470038
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1147288
Wiki­data ID
Q121104
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Balkh” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ولاية بـلخ”
  • Arabic: “ولاية بلخ”
  • Arabic: “ولايه بلخ”
  • Asturian: “Balh”
  • Asturian: “Provincia de Balkh”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəlx vilayəti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəlx”
  • Basque: “Balh”
  • Basque: “Balkh probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Балх”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Балх”
  • Bengali: “বাল্‌খ প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Балк”
  • Bulgarian: “Балх”
  • Catalan: “província de Balkh”
  • Catalan: “Província de Balkh”
  • Cebuano: “Balkh”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای بەلخ”
  • Chinese: “Balkh Séng”
  • Chinese: “巴尔赫省/巴爾赫省”
  • Chinese: “巴尔赫省”
  • Chinese: “巴爾赫省”
  • Chinese: “巴赫省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Belh (vilâyet)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Belh”
  • Czech: “Balch”
  • Danish: “Balkh”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Belx”
  • Dutch: “Balch”
  • Dutch: “Balkh”
  • Esperanto: “Baktro”
  • Esperanto: “Balĥ”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Balĥ”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Balĥ”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Balĥo”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Balĥo”
  • Estonian: “Balkhi provints”
  • Finnish: “Balhin maakunta”
  • Finnish: “Balkhin maakunta”
  • French: “Balkh”
  • French: “Province de Balkh”
  • Galician: “provincia de Balkh”
  • Georgian: “ბალხის პროვინცია”
  • German: “AF-BAL”
  • German: “Balch”
  • German: “Balkh”
  • German: “Wilaya Balch”
  • Greek: “Μπαλχ”
  • Gujarati: “બાલ્ખ”
  • Hebrew: “בלח‘”
  • Hebrew: “בלח’”
  • Hindi: “बलख”
  • Hindi: “बल्ख़ प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “बल्ख़”
  • Hindi: “बाल्क़”
  • Hungarian: “Balh tartomány”
  • Hungarian: “Balh”
  • Indonesian: “Balkh”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Balkh”
  • Italian: “Balkh”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Balkh”
  • Japanese: “バルフ州”
  • Kannada: “ಬಲ್ಕ್”
  • Kashmiri: “بَلَخ صوبہٕ”
  • Kazakh: “Балх”
  • Korean: “발흐 주”
  • Korean: “발흐주”
  • Latvian: “Balhas province”
  • Latvian: “Balhas vilajets”
  • Lithuanian: “Balcho provincija”
  • Lithuanian: “Balcho Provincija”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Balkh”
  • Marathi: “बल्ख प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “बाल्क”
  • Mazanderani: “بلخ ولایت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Balkh Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Provinsi Balkh”
  • Mongolian: “Балх аймаг”
  • Mongolian: “Балх муж”
  • Newari: “बिलख प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान”
  • Newari: “बिलख प्रान्त”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون بلخ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balkh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balkh-provinsen”
  • Norwegian: “Balkh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Balkh”
  • Ossetian: “Балх (провинци)”
  • Ossetian: “Балх”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਲਖ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਲਖ਼ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਲਖ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਲਕ”
  • Persian: “استان بلخ”
  • Persian: “بلخ”
  • Persian: “د بلخ ولايت”
  • Persian: “ولایت بلخ”
  • Polish: “Balch”
  • Portuguese: “Bactro”
  • Portuguese: “Balkh”
  • Portuguese: “Balque”
  • Pushto: “بلخ ولايت”
  • Pushto: “د بلخ ولايت”
  • Pushto: “د بلخ ولایت”
  • Romanian: “provincia Balkh”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Balkh”
  • Russian: “Балх”
  • Scots: “Balkh Province”
  • Serbian: “Provincija Balk”
  • Serbian: “Балх”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Балк”
  • Sindhi: “بلخ صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “බාල්ක්”
  • Slovak: “Balch”
  • Slovenian: “Balkh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلخ ویلایت”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلخ ویلایتی”
  • Spanish: “Balh”
  • Spanish: “Balj”
  • Spanish: “Balkh”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Balh”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Balj”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de balkh”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Balkh”
  • Swedish: “Balkh”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Balkh”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Balx”
  • Tajik: “Балх”
  • Tajik: “вилояти Балх”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Балх”
  • Tamil: “பலக்ஹ்”
  • Tamil: “பல்கு மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “பால்க் மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Бәлех вилаяте”
  • Telugu: “బాల్క్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดบัลข์”
  • Thai: “บัลข์”
  • Turkish: “Belh Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Belh”
  • Uighur: “بالخ ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Балх”
  • Urdu: “بلخ”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ بلخ”
  • Uzbek: “Balx viloyati”
  • Uzbek: “Balx”
  • Vietnamese: “Balkh”
  • Vietnamese: “Belkh”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Balkh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Balkh”
  • Welsh: “Balkh”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ بلخ”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴尔赫省”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴赫省”

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