Khost District
Khost District, historically known as Matun, is a municipality situated in the central and southeastern part of Khost Province in Afghanistan. It has an estimated population of 170,615 people.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: County
- Description: district in Khost Province, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Khost”, “Khost (Matun) District”, “Khost Matun”, “Khowst District”, “Matun”, “Matūn”, “خوست”, “شهرستان خوست”, and “متون”
Khost District
- Categories: district of Afghanistan and locality
- Location: Khowst, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
33.3405° or 33° 20′ 26″ north
Longitude
70.0038° or 70° 0′ 14″ east
Elevation
1,108 metres (3,635 feet)
Open location code
8J5G82R3+5G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Khost District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة خوست”
- Bengali: “খোস্ত জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Khōst”
- Chinese: “霍斯特”
- Czech: “Chóst”
- Italian: “distretto di Khost”
- Italian: “Distretto di Khowst”
- Malay: “Daerah Khost”
- Persian: “ولسوالی خوست”
- Pushto: “خوست (متون) ولسوالۍ”
- Pushto: “خوست ولسوالۍ”
- Swedish: “Khost”
- Turkish: “Host (Matun) ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Host ilçesi”
- Urdu: “خوست (متون) ضلع”
- Urdu: “خوست ضلع”
- Uzbek: “Khost (Matun) tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Khost (huyện)”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Khost”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Khost and FOB Salerno.
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