Badakhshan
Badakhshan is one of the northeastern provinces of Afghanistan. It borders Gorno-Badakhshan region of Tajikistan to the north, Xinjiang province of China to the east, and northern provinces of Pakistan to the south, while internally it neighbors the Afghan provinces of Takhar and Panjshir.- Province of Afghanistan with about 1,050,000 residents
- Also known as“Baḏakhs̄ān”“Badakhshan Province”“Bedekhshan Province”“Velāyat-e Badakhshān”“Wilāyat-e Badakhshān”“بدخشان”“ولايت بدخشان”“ولايت بدکشان”
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Latitude
36.75° or 36° 45′ north
Longitude
72° east
Open location code
8J8JQ222+22
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Badakhshan” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ባዳክশান”
- Arabic: “ولاية بدخشان”
- Arabic: “ولايه بدخشان”
- Armenian: “Բադախշան”
- Asturian: “Badajshán”
- Asturian: “Badakhshan”
- Azerbaijani: “Bədəxşan vilayəti”
- Azerbaijani: “Bədəxşan”
- Basque: “Badakhshan probintzia”
- Basque: “Badakhxan probintzia”
- Belarusian: “Бадахшан”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Бадахшан”
- Bengali: “বাদাখশন প্রদেশ”
- Bulgarian: “Бадакшан”
- Bulgarian: “Бадахшан”
- Catalan: “Província de Badahsan”
- Catalan: “Província de Badakhshan”
- Catalan: “Província de Badakhxan”
- Cebuano: “Badakhshān”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای بەدەخشان”
- Chinese: “巴达赫尚省”
- Chinese: “巴達克山省”
- Chinese: “巴達赫尚省”
- Crimean Tatar: “Bedehşan (vilâyet)”
- Crimean Tatar: “Bedehşan”
- Croatian: “Badahšan”
- Croatian: “Provincija Badakhšan”
- Czech: “Badachšán”
- Danish: “Badakhshan”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bedexşan”
- Dutch: “Badachsjan”
- Esperanto: “Badaĥŝano”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Badaĥŝan”
- Esperanto: “provinco Badaĥŝano”
- Estonian: “Badakhshān”
- Estonian: “Badakhshāni provints”
- Finnish: “Badahšan”
- Finnish: “Badahshan”
- Finnish: “Badakhšanin maakunta”
- Finnish: “Badakhshan”
- French: “Badakhchân”
- French: “Badakhshan”
- French: “Badakshan”
- Galician: “Badaghxán”
- Georgian: “ბადახშანის პროვინცია”
- German: “AF-BDS”
- German: “Badachschan”
- German: “Badakhshan”
- Greek: “Μπανταχσάν”
- Gujarati: “બદાખશન”
- Hausa: “Badakhshan”
- Hebrew: “בדח’שאן”
- Hindi: “बदख़्शान Province”
- Hindi: “बदख़्शान प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “बदख्शान राज्य”
- Hindi: “बदख़्शान”
- Hungarian: “Badahsán”
- Indonesian: “Badakhshan”
- Indonesian: “Badakshan”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Badakhshan”
- Irish: “Badakhshan”
- Italian: “Badakhshan”
- Japanese: “バダフシャーン”
- Japanese: “バダフシャーン州”
- Javanese: “Badakhshan”
- Kannada: “ಬಡಾಖ್ಶನ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Badaxshan wálayatı”
- Kazakh: “Бадахшан”
- Kirghiz: “Бадахшан”
- Korean: “바다크샨 주”
- Korean: “바다크샨”
- Korean: “바다흐샨주”
- Kurdish: “Parêzgeha Bedexşan”
- Latvian: “Badahšāna”
- Lithuanian: “Badachšanas”
- Lithuanian: “Badachšano provincija”
- Malay: “Badakhshan Province”
- Malay: “Badakhshan”
- Malay: “Wilayah Badakhshan”
- Malayalam: “ബദഖ്ശാൻ പ്രവിശ്യ”
- Marathi: “बदखशान प्रांत”
- Marathi: “बदखाशन”
- Mazanderani: “بدخشان ولایت”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Badakhshan Séng”
- Minangkabau: “Provinsi Badakhshan”
- Mongolian: “Бадахшан аймаг”
- Mongolian: “Бадахшан муж”
- Newari: “बदख्शाँ प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान”
- Newari: “बदख्शाँ प्रान्त”
- Newari: “बादाखशान प्रदेश”
- Northern Frisian: “Badachschaan”
- Northern Luri: “آستون بدخشان”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Badakhshan”
- Norwegian: “Badakhshan”
- Oromo: “Badakhshan”
- Ossetian: “Бадахшан (провинци)”
- Ossetian: “Бадахшан”
- Panjabi: “ਸੂਬਾ ਬਦਖ਼ਸ਼ਾਂ”
- Panjabi: “ਬਦਖ਼ਸ਼ਾਂਨ ਰਾਜ”
- Persian: “استان بدخشان افغانستان”
- Persian: “استان بدخشان”
- Persian: “ولایت بدخشان”
- Polish: “Badachszan”
- Portuguese: “Badakhshan”
- Portuguese: “Badakshan”
- Portuguese: “Badaquexão”
- Pushto: “بدخشان ولايت”
- Pushto: “د بدخشان ولايت”
- Pushto: “د بدخشان ولایت”
- Romanian: “Provincia Badahșan”
- Romanian: “Provincia Badakhshan”
- Russian: “Бадахшан”
- Scots: “Badakhshan Province”
- Serbian: “Provincija Badahsan”
- Serbian: “Бадахшан”
- Serbian: “Провинција Бадахсан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Badahšanska pokrajina”
- Sindhi: “بدخشان صوبو”
- Sinhala: “බදක්ශාන්”
- Slovak: “Badachšán”
- Slovenian: “AF-BDS”
- Slovenian: “Badahšan”
- Somali: “Badakhshan”
- South Azerbaijani: “بدخشان ویلایت”
- Spanish: “Badahšan”
- Spanish: “Badajshán”
- Spanish: “Badakhshán”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Badahšan”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Badajšán”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Badajshán”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Badakhshan”
- Sundanese: “Propinsi Badakhshan”
- Swahili: “Badakhshan”
- Swedish: “Badakhshan”
- Swedish: “Badaksjan”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Badakhshan”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Badaxşon”
- Tajik: “Ванҷ”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Бадахшон”
- Tajik: “Ноҳияи Шӯробод”
- Tamil: “படக்ஹ்ஷன்”
- Tamil: “படாக்சான் மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Бадахшан”
- Telugu: “బడాక్షన్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดบาดัคชาน”
- Thai: “จังหวัดบาดัฆชอน”
- Thai: “บาดัฆชอน”
- Turkish: “Badahşan Vilayeti”
- Turkish: “Badahşan”
- Turkish: “Bedehşan Vilayeti”
- Turkish: “Bedehşan”
- Uighur: “بەدەخشان ۋىلايىتى”
- Ukrainian: “Бадахшан”
- Urdu: “صوبہ بدخشاں”
- Uzbek: “Badaxshon viloyati”
- Uzbek: “Badaxshon”
- Vietnamese: “Badakhshan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Badakhshan”
- Welsh: “Badakhshan”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ بدخشان”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ بدخشاں”
- Wu Chinese: “巴达赫尚省”
- Yue Chinese: “巴達山省”
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