Yawan District
Yawan is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan. It was created in 2005 from part of the Ragh District and is home to approximately 36,037 residents.- Type: County
- Description: district of Badakhshan, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Yawan”, “Yāwān”, and “یاوان”
Yawan District
- Categories: district of Afghanistan and locality
- Location: Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.5282° or 37° 31′ 41″ northLongitude
70.3804° or 70° 22′ 50″ eastElevation
2,061 metres (6,762 feet)Open location code
8J9GG9HJ+75OpenStreetMap ID
node 4387245754OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Yawan District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ياوان”
- Arabic: “ياوان”
- Bengali: “যয়ন জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Yāwān”
- French: “Yawan”
- Indonesian: “Yawan, Badakhshan”
- Indonesian: “Yawan”
- Italian: “distretto di Yawan”
- Italian: “Distretto di Yawan”
- Malay: “Daerah Yawan”
- Persian: “ولسوالی یاوان”
- Pushto: “د ياوان ولسوالۍ”
- Pushto: “د یاوان ولسوالۍ”
- Pushto: “ياوان ولسوالۍ”
- Russian: “Яван”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Yawan”
- Swedish: “Yawan”
- Tajik: “Вулусволии Ёвон”
- Tajik: “Ноҳияи Ёвон, Афғонистон”
- Turkish: “Yavan ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Yavan”
- Urdu: “ضلع یاوان”
- Urdu: “یوں ضلع”
- Uzbek: “Yawan tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Yawan”
- Vietnamese: “Yawan”
- Welsh: “Yawan”
- Welsh: “Yāwān”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع یاوان”
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