Yamgan District

Yamgan is one of the 29 districts of in eastern . It was created in 2005 from part of the and is home to approximately 29,096 residents, mostly Ismailis.
Wikipedia
  • County
  • …lies at an elevation of 2,299 metres (7,543 feet)
  • Description: district of Badakhshan, Afghanistan
  • Also known as
    “Yamgān”
    “یمگان”

Yamgan District

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Latitude
36.4368° or 36° 26′ 13″ north
Longitude
70.7913° or 70° 47′ 29″ east
Open location code
8J8GCQPR+PG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4386804174
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
7052735
Wiki­data ID
Q2670891

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Yamgan District” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة يمكان”
  • Arabic: “يماغان”
  • Arabic: “يمقان”
  • Arabic: “يمكان”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yamqan”
  • Belarusian: “Ямган”
  • Bengali: “ইয়ামগন জেলা”
  • Cebuano: “Yamgān”
  • French: “Yamgan”
  • Indonesian: “Yamgan, Badakhshan”
  • Indonesian: “Yamgan”
  • Italian: “distretto di Yamgan”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Yamgan”
  • Malay: “Daerah Yamgan”
  • Persian: “شهرستان یمگان”
  • Persian: “ولسوالی یمگان”
  • Portuguese: “Iangã”
  • Portuguese: “Yamgan”
  • Pushto: “د يمګان ولسوالۍ”
  • Pushto: “د یمګان ولسوالۍ”
  • Pushto: “يمګان ولسوالۍ”
  • Pushto: “يمگان ولسوالۍ”
  • Russian: “Ямган”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Yamgan”
  • Swedish: “Yamgan”
  • Tajik: “Ноҳияи Ямгон”
  • Turkish: “Yamgan ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Yemgan ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Yemgan”
  • Turkish: “Yumgan”
  • Urdu: “ضلع یمگان”
  • Urdu: “یامگن ضلع”
  • Uzbek: “Yamgan tumani”
  • Uzbek: “Yamgon tumani”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Yamgan”
  • Vietnamese: “Yamgan”
  • Welsh: “Yamgan”
  • Welsh: “Yamgān”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع یمگان”

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