Helmand River
The Helmand river, also historically known as the Etymandros, is the longest river in Afghanistan and the primary watershed for the endorheic Sistan Basin.
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- …lies at an elevation of 494 metres (1,621 feet)
- Description: river in Afghanistan and Iran
- Also known as“Daryā-ye Helmand”“Helmand Rod”“Helmand Rūd”“Helmend”“Helmud river”“Helmund”“Hirmand”“Rōd-e Helmand”“هلمند رود”
Helmand River
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Latitude
30.81116° or 30° 48′ 40″ north
Longitude
61.77022° or 61° 46′ 13″ east
Open location code
8J23RQ6C+F3
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Helmand River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر هلمند”
- Arabic: “نهرهلمند”
- Armenian: “Հիլմենդ”
- Assamese: “হিৰামণ্ড”
- Assamese: “হেলমাণ্ড নদী”
- Assamese: “হেলমাণ্ড”
- Asturian: “Ríu Helmand”
- Azerbaijani: “Hilmənd (çay)”
- Azerbaijani: “Hilmənd”
- Basque: “Helmand ibaia”
- Basque: “Helmand”
- Belarusian: “Гільменд”
- Belarusian: “Гільмэнд”
- Bengali: “হেলমান্দ নদী”
- Bulgarian: “Хелманд”
- Catalan: “Riu Helmand”
- Cebuano: “Helmand Rōd”
- Chinese: “赫爾曼德河”
- Chuvash: “Гильменд”
- Croatian: “Helmand”
- Czech: “Hilmand”
- Czech: “Hílmand”
- Danish: “Helmand”
- Dutch: “Helmand”
- Esperanto: “Hilmend”
- Estonian: “Helmandi jõgi”
- Finnish: “Helmand”
- French: “Helmand”
- French: “Helmend”
- French: “Helmund”
- French: “Hilmand”
- French: “Hirmand”
- Georgian: “ჰილმენდი”
- German: “Helmand”
- German: “Hilmend”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Helmand River”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Helmend”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Helmud river”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Helmund”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Hirmand”
- Greek: “Χέλμαντ ποταμός”
- Hausa: “Kogin Helmand”
- Hebrew: “נהר הלמנד”
- Hindi: “हेलमंद नदी”
- Hungarian: “Helmand”
- Hungarian: “Hilmend”
- Irish: “Abhainn Helmand”
- Italian: “Helmand”
- Japanese: “ヘルマンド川”
- Kabyle: “Asif n Helmand”
- Kirghiz: “Гильменд”
- Korean: “헬만드강”
- Latin: “Etymander”
- Latvian: “Helmanda”
- Lithuanian: “Helmandas”
- Malayalam: “ഹെൽമന്ദ് നദി”
- Mazanderani: “هیرمند”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Helmand-elven”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Helmand”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Helmend-elven”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Helmend”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Helmand”
- Norwegian: “Helmand”
- Ossetian: “Гильменд (цæугæдон)”
- Ossetian: “Гильменд”
- Panjabi: “ਹੇਲਮੰਦ ਨਦੀ”
- Persian: “هلمند”
- Persian: “هندمند”
- Persian: “هیرمن”
- Persian: “هیرمند”
- Polish: “Helmand”
- Portuguese: “Rio Helmand”
- Portuguese: “Rio Helmande”
- Pushto: “هلمند سيند”
- Russian: “Гильменд”
- Santali: “ᱦᱮᱞᱢᱟᱱᱰ ᱜᱟᱰᱟ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Helmand”
- Sindhi: “هلمند درياهه”
- Slovak: “Hilmand”
- Slovenian: “Helmand (reka)”
- Slovenian: “Helmand”
- South Azerbaijani: “هیرمند چایی”
- Spanish: “Helmand”
- Spanish: “Río Helmand”
- Swedish: “Helmandfloden”
- Swedish: “Hirmandfloden”
- Tamil: “எல்மாந்து ஆறு”
- Tatar: “Һилмәнд”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำฮิลมันด์”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำเฮ็ลมันด์”
- Turkish: “Helmend Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Гільменд”
- Urdu: “دریائے ہلمند”
- Uzbek: “Hilmand”
- Venetian: “Fiume Helmand”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Helmand”
- Welsh: “Afon Helmand”
- Western Panjabi: “دریائے ہلمند”
- Western Panjabi: “ہرمند”
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