Khakrez District
Khakrez District is a rural agrarian community with a population of more than 20,000 located in north-central Kandahar Province. A village known variously as Khakrez or Darvishan, at the base of mountains in the western part of the district, is the location of the district center building and the Shah Agha Shrine or Shah Maqsud Shrine, one of the oldest historical Islamic sites in Afghanistan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: district of Afghanistan
- Description: district in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Khākrēz” and “خاکرېز”
Khakrez District
- Location: Kandahar, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Western Panjabi—“Khakrez District” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Xakrez rayonu”
- Bengali: “খাকরেজ জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Khākrēz (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Khākrēz”
- Dutch: “Khakrez District”
- Esperanto: “Ĥakrez”
- French: “Khakrez”
- Italian: “distretto di Khakrez”
- Italian: “Distretto di Khakrez”
- Japanese: “ハクレズ”
- Japanese: “ハクレズ郡”
- Malay: “Daerah Khakrez”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khakrez”
- Norwegian: “Khakrez”
- Persian: “ولسوالی خاکریز”
- Pushto: “خاکریز ولسوالۍ”
- Pushto: “خاکرېز ولسوالۍ”
- Pushto: “د خاکرېز ولسوالۍ”
- Spanish: “distrito de Khakrez”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Khakrez”
- Swedish: “Khakrez”
- Tamil: “காக்ரேஸ் மாவட்டம்”
- Turkish: “Hakrez ilçesi”
- Urdu: “خاکریز”
- Uzbek: “Khakrez tumani”
- Uzbek: “Xakrez tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Khakrez”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Khakrez”
- Welsh: “Khākrēz”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع خاکریز”
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