Balkhab District
Balkhab is a district of Sar-e Pol Province, Afghanistan. The district seat lies at Balkhab, also known as Tarkhoj. Coal is mined in the area. A massive copper deposit is also located in Balkhab district of Sar-e pol province, the new copper discovery is bigger than the current Aynak copper deposit in Logar province, southeast of Kabul, according to a GSA report.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ahmad imami, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: County
- Description: district in Sar-e Pol Province, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Balkhab” and “Balkhāb”
Balkhab District
- Categories: district of Afghanistan and locality
- Location: Sar-e Pol Province, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
35.458° or 35° 27′ 29″ northLongitude
66.6023° or 66° 36′ 8″ eastElevation
2,484 metres (8,150 feet)Open location code
8J78FJ52+5WOpenStreetMap ID
node 4397389863OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Balkhab District” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “বালখাব জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Balkhāb”
- Italian: “distretto di Balkhab”
- Italian: “Distretto di Balkhab”
- Malay: “Daerah Balkhab”
- Persian: “بلخاب”
- Persian: “دره بلخاب”
- Persian: “درهٔ بلخاب”
- Persian: “ناحیه بلخاب”
- Persian: “ولسوالی بلخ آب”
- Persian: “ولسوالی بلخاب”
- Pushto: “بلخاب ولسوالۍ”
- Pushto: “د بلخاب ولسوالۍ”
- Spanish: “Baljab”
- Spanish: “Balkhab”
- Swedish: “Balkhab”
- Uzbek: “Balxab tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Balkhab”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Balkhab, Sar-e Pol”
- Welsh: “Balkhab”
- Welsh: “Balkhāb”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع بلخ آب”
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