Wakhan District
Wakhan District is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan. It has an estimated population of about 17,213 people, mostly ethnic Wakhis, Pamiris and Kyrghyz.Photo: Khwahan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: district of Afghanistan with 13,000 residents
- Description: district of Badakhshan, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Wakhan”, “Wākhān”, and “واخان”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Patukh.
Patukh
Village
Patukh is a village in the Wakhan, Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan. Patukh is inhabited by Wakhi people. The population of the village is 405. Patukh is situated 6 km southeast of Wakhan District.
Wakhan District
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Wakhan District” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ওয়াখান জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Wākhān”
- Chinese: “瓦罕县”
- Croatian: “Wakhan (okrug)”
- Croatian: “Wakhan”
- French: “Wakhan”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Ουαχάν”
- Indonesian: “Wakhan, Badakhshan”
- Indonesian: “Wakhan”
- Italian: “distretto di Wakhan”
- Italian: “Distretto di Wakhan”
- Japanese: “ワッハーン”
- Japanese: “ワハン地区”
- Ossetian: “Вахан (Афгъанистан)”
- Ossetian: “Вахан”
- Persian: “ولسوالی واخان”
- Pushto: “د واخان ولسوالۍ”
- Pushto: “واخان ولسوالۍ”
- Russian: “Вахан”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Vaján”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Wakhan”
- Swedish: “Wakhan”
- Tajik: “Вулусволии Вахон”
- Tajik: “Ноҳияи Вахон”
- Tamil: “வக்கான் மாவட்டம்”
- Turkish: “Vahan ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Vahan”
- Ukrainian: “Вахан”
- Urdu: “واخان ضلع”
- Uzbek: “Vohon tumani”
- Uzbek: “Wakhan tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Wakhan”
- Vietnamese: “Wakhan”
- Welsh: “Wakhan”
- Welsh: “Wākhān”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع واخان”
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