Tashkān District

Tishkan is one of the 29 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern . It was created in 2005 from part of and is home to approximately 33,746 Population residents.
Wikipedia
  • County
  • …lies at an elevation of 2,336 metres (7,664 feet)
  • Description: district of Badakhshan, Afghanistan
  • Also known as
    “Tashkān”
    “Tishkan”
    “Tishkan District”
    “تشکان”

Tashkān District

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Latitude
36.7702° or 36° 46′ 13″ north
Longitude
70.3959° or 70° 23′ 45″ east
Open location code
8J8GQ9CW+39
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4386769872
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
7052692
Wiki­data ID
Q2670881

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Tashkān District” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تيشكان”
  • Bengali: “তিশকান জেলা”
  • Cebuano: “Tashkān”
  • French: “Tishkan”
  • Indonesian: “Tishkan, Badakhshan”
  • Indonesian: “Tishkan”
  • Italian: “distretto di Tishkan”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Tishkan”
  • Malay: “Daerah Tishkan”
  • Persian: “تیشکان”
  • Persian: “ولسوالی تیشکان”
  • Pushto: “تېشکان ولسوالۍ”
  • Pushto: “د تېشکان ولسوالۍ”
  • Russian: “Тишкан”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Tishkan”
  • Swedish: “Tishkan”
  • Tajik: “Ноҳияи Тишкон”
  • Turkish: “Tişkan ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Tişkan”
  • Urdu: “تیشکان ضلع”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Tishkan”
  • Vietnamese: “Tishkan”
  • Welsh: “Tashkān”
  • Welsh: “Tishkan”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع تیشکان”

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