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Khowst

Khost, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan located in the southeastern part of the country. Khost consists of thirteen districts and the city of serves as the capital of the province.
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  • Type: State with 639,000 residents
  • Description: province in southeast Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Khost”, “Khost Province”, “Khowst Province”, “Velayat-e Khowst”, “Welayat-e Khost”, and “Wilayat-e Khost”
  • Neighbors:

Khowst

Latitude
33.4015° or 33° 24′ 5″ north
Longitude
69.8912° or 69° 53′ 28″ east
Population
639,000
Elevation
1,286 metres (4,219 feet)
Open location code
8J5FCV2R+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312470060
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1444362
Wiki­data ID
Q185752
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Khowst” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ولاية خوست”
  • Arabic: “ولايه خوست”
  • Armenian: “Խոստ”
  • Asturian: “Khost”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xost vilayəti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xost”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xovst”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xust”
  • Basque: “Khost probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Хост”
  • Bengali: “খোস্ত প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Хост”
  • Catalan: “Província de Hawst”
  • Catalan: “Província de Khost”
  • Cebuano: “Velāyat-e Khowst”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای خۆست”
  • Chinese: “Khost Séng”
  • Chinese: “荷斯特省”
  • Chinese: “霍斯特省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Host (vilâyet)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Host”
  • Czech: “Chóst”
  • Danish: “Khost”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Xewst”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Xost”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Xust”
  • Dutch: “Chost”
  • Dutch: “Khost”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥosto”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Ĥost”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Ĥost”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Ĥosto”
  • Estonian: “Khōsti provints”
  • Estonian: “Khowsti provints”
  • Finnish: “Khostin maakunta”
  • Finnish: “Khustin maakunta”
  • French: “Khost”
  • French: “Khôst”
  • French: “Province de Khost”
  • Georgian: “ხოსტის პროვინცია”
  • German: “AF-KHO”
  • German: “Chost”
  • German: “Khost”
  • Greek: “Κχοστ”
  • Greek: “Χοστ”
  • Gujarati: “ખોસ્ત”
  • Hebrew: “ח’וסת”
  • Hindi: “खोस्त प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “ख़ोस्त प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “खोस्त”
  • Hungarian: “Khost”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Khost”
  • Italian: “Khowst”
  • Italian: “provincia di Khowst”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Khowst”
  • Japanese: “ホースト州”
  • Kannada: “ಖೋಸ್ಟ್”
  • Kazakh: “Хост”
  • Korean: “호스트 주”
  • Korean: “호스트주”
  • Korean: “후스트 주”
  • Latvian: “Houstas province”
  • Latvian: “Houstas vilajets”
  • Lithuanian: “Chosto provincija”
  • Malay: “Khost”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Khost”
  • Marathi: “खोस्ट”
  • Mazanderani: “خوست ولایت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Khost Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Provinsi Khost”
  • Mongolian: “Хост аймаг”
  • Mongolian: “Хост муж”
  • Newari: “खोस्त प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान”
  • Newari: “खोस्त प्रान्त”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون خوست”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Khost”
  • Norwegian: “Khost”
  • Ossetian: “Хост (провинци)”
  • Ossetian: “Хост”
  • Panjabi: “ਖੋਸਤ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਖੋਸਤ”
  • Persian: “ولایت خوست”
  • Polish: “Chost”
  • Portuguese: “Khost”
  • Pushto: “خوست ولايت”
  • Pushto: “خوست ولایت”
  • Pushto: “د خوست ولايت”
  • Pushto: “د خوست ولایت”
  • Romanian: “provincia Khost”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Khost”
  • Russian: “Хост”
  • Scots: “Khost Province”
  • Serbian: “Provincija Koust”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Коуст”
  • Serbian: “Хост”
  • Sindhi: “خوست صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “කෝස්ට්”
  • Slovenian: “AF-KHO”
  • Slovenian: “Host”
  • South Azerbaijani: “خوست ویلایت”
  • Spanish: “Hawst”
  • Spanish: “Jost”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de hawst”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Jost”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Khost”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Khost”
  • Swedish: “Khost”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Khost”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Xust”
  • Tajik: “вилояти Хуст”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Хуст”
  • Tamil: “கோசுட் மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “கோசுட்”
  • Tamil: “கோஸ்ட் மாகாணம்”
  • Telugu: “ఖోస్ట్”
  • Thai: “คอสต์”
  • Thai: “โคลส”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดคอสต์”
  • Turkish: “Host Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Host”
  • Turkish: “Khost Vilayeti”
  • Uighur: “خوست ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Хост”
  • Urdu: “خوست”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ خوست”
  • Uzbek: “Xust viloyati”
  • Vietnamese: “Khost”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Khost”
  • Welsh: “Khost”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ خوست”
  • Wu Chinese: “霍斯特省”
  • Yue Chinese: “荷斯特省”

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