Central Asia
Afghanistan
Helmand Province

Lashkargah District

Lashkargah is a district in the east of , , surrounding the provincial capital of . Its population is 99% Pashtun and 0.2% Baluch, with, 0.8% are Hindus and Hazara; the population was estimated at 43,934 in 2018.
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  • Type: County
  • Description: district in Helmand Province, Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Lashkar Gah District”, “Lashkar Gāh district”, and “لشکر گاه”

Lashkargah District

Latitude
31.5497° or 31° 32′ 59″ north
Longitude
64.5523° or 64° 33′ 8″ east
Elevation
967 metres (3,173 feet)
Open location code
8J36GHX2+VW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4404518420
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
7053027
Wiki­data ID
Q2456350
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Lashkargah District” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لشكر كاه”
  • Bengali: “লস্করগাহ জেলা”
  • Cebuano: “Lashkar Gāh (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Lashkar Gāh”
  • Chinese: “拉什卡尔加/拉什卡爾加”
  • Czech: “Laškar Gáh”
  • Dutch: “Lashkargah District”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لشكر كاه”
  • French: “Lashkar Gah”
  • French: “Lashkargah”
  • French: “Lashkargâh”
  • French: “Lashkhargâh”
  • French: “Laskhargâh”
  • German: “Distrikt Laschkar Gah”
  • Italian: “distretto di Lashkar Gah”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Lashkar Gah”
  • Malay: “Daerah Lashkargah”
  • Persian: “ولسوالی لشکرگاه”
  • Polish: “Laszkargah”
  • Pushto: “لښکرګاه ولسوالۍ”
  • Pushto: “لښکرگاه ولسوالۍ”
  • Russian: “Лашкаргах (район)”
  • Slovenian: “Distrikt Laškargah”
  • Swedish: “Lashkar Gah (distrikt)”
  • Swedish: “Lashkar Gah”
  • Turkish: “Leşkergah ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Leşkergâh ilçesi”
  • Urdu: “لشکرگاہ ضلع”
  • Uzbek: “Lashkargoh tumani”
  • Vietnamese: “Lashkargah”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Lashkar Gah”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع لشکرگاہ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lashkargah District”. Photo: afgmatters, CC BY 2.0.