Sherzad District
Sherzad is a district in the west of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. It has a short stretch of border with Pakistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 66,392 in 2002, of whom 26,500 were children under 12.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: County
- Description: district of Nangarhar, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Sherzad” and “شېرزاد”
Sherzad District
- Categories: district of Afghanistan and locality
- Location: Nangarhar, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.1943° or 34° 11′ 40″ north
Longitude
69.9864° or 69° 59′ 11″ east
Elevation
2,371 metres (7,779 feet)
Open location code
8J6F5XVP+PH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Sherzad District” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “শেরজাদ জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Shērzād”
- Italian: “distretto di Sherzad”
- Italian: “Distretto di Sherzad”
- Japanese: “シェルザド”
- Malay: “Daerah Sherzad”
- Persian: “شهرستان شیرزاد”
- Persian: “ولسوالی شیرزاد”
- Pushto: “شېرزاد ولسوالۍ”
- Russian: “Шерзад”
- Swedish: “Sherzad”
- Urdu: “شیرزاد ضلع”
- Uzbek: “Sherzad tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Sherzad”
- Vietnamese: “Sherzad”
- Welsh: “Sherzad”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع شیرزاد”
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