Bakwa District
Bakwa is a district in Farah province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is majority Pashtun with a Tajik minority, was estimated at 79,529 in November 2004. The district center is Sultani Bakwa. It is situated at an altitude of 726 m.
- Type: County
- Description: district in Farah Province, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Bakwah” and “بکواه”
Bakwa District
- Categories: district of Afghanistan and locality
- Location: Farah, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
32.2148° or 32° 12′ 53″ north
Longitude
62.8809° or 62° 52′ 51″ east
Elevation
710 metres (2,329 feet)
Open location code
8J446V7J+W9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Bakwa District” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “বাকওয়া জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Bakwāh”
- Dutch: “Bakwa”
- French: “Bakwa”
- Italian: “distretto di Bakwa”
- Italian: “Distretto di Bakwa”
- Malay: “Daerah Bakwa”
- Persian: “شهرستان بکواه”
- Persian: “ولسوالی بکواه”
- Pushto: “بکوا ولسوالۍ”
- Swedish: “Bakwa”
- Swedish: “Bakwah”
- Turkish: “Bakva ilçesi”
- Urdu: “بکوا ضلع”
- Uzbek: “Bakva tumani”
- Uzbek: “Bakwa tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Bakwa”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Bakwa”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع باکواہ”
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