Shinwar District
Shinwar is a district in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. It is on the main highway from Jalalabad to the Torkham border crossing. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun was estimated at 40,147 in 2002, of whom 16,000 were children under 12.- Type: County
- Description: district of Nangarhar, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Shinwar” and “شینوار”
Shinwar District
- Categories: district of Afghanistan and locality
- Location: Nangarhar, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.1959° or 34° 11′ 45″ northLongitude
70.8318° or 70° 49′ 55″ eastElevation
599 metres (1,965 feet)Open location code
8J6G5RWJ+9POpenStreetMap ID
node 1513704596OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Shinwar District” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “শিনওয়ার জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Shīnwār”
- Italian: “distretto di Shinwar”
- Italian: “Distretto di Shinwar”
- Japanese: “シンワー”
- Malay: “Daerah Shinwar”
- Persian: “ولسوالی شینوار”
- Pushto: “شينوار ولسوالۍ (ننګرهار)”
- Pushto: “غنیخېل ولسوالۍ”
- Swedish: “Shinwar”
- Urdu: “شینوارضلع”
- Uzbek: “Shinwar tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Shinwar”
- Vietnamese: “Shinwar”
- Welsh: “Shinwar”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع شینوار”
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