Khwahan District
Khwahan is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province, located in northeastern Afghanistan. The district capital is Khwahan. The district borders Raghistan to the southwest, Kuf Ab to the northeast, the Panj river to the northwest, and Shamsiddin Shohin district, located in the Khatlon region of Tajikistan to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Khwahan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: County
- Description: district of Badakhshan, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Khwahan” and “خواهان”
Khwahan District
- Categories: district of Afghanistan and locality
- Location: Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.8372° or 37° 50′ 14″ northLongitude
70.394° or 70° 23′ 39″ eastElevation
2,817 metres (9,242 feet)Open location code
8J9GR9PV+VJOpenStreetMap ID
node 4387300415OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Khwahan District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة خواهان”
- Bengali: “খওয়াহান জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Khwāhān”
- Chinese: “哈汉县”
- Chinese: “哈漢縣”
- Chinese: “瓦罕”
- French: “Khwahan”
- German: “Khwahan”
- Greek: “Περιοχή Χουαχάν”
- Indonesian: “Khwahan, Badakhshan”
- Indonesian: “Khwahan”
- Italian: “distretto di Khwahan”
- Italian: “Distretto di Khwahan”
- Malay: “Daerah Khwahan”
- Persian: “ولسوالی خواهان”
- Polish: “Chwahan”
- Pushto: “خواهان ولسوالۍ”
- Pushto: “د خواهان ولسوالۍ”
- Russian: “Хвахан”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Khwahan”
- Swedish: “Khwahan”
- Tajik: “Вулусволии Хоҳон”
- Tajik: “Ноҳияи Хвоҳон”
- Turkish: “Havahan ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Hevahan”
- Ukrainian: “Хахан Район”
- Urdu: “خواہان ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Khwahan”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Khwahan”
- Welsh: “Khwahan”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Khwahan District”. Photo: Khwahan, CC BY-SA 3.0.