Central Asia
Afghanistan
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Khost District

Khost District, historically known as Matun, is a municipality situated in the central and southeastern part of in . It has an estimated population of 170,615 people.
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  • Type: County
  • Description: district in Khost Province, Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Khost”, “Khōst”, “Khost (Matun) District”, “Khowst District”, “Matun”, “Matūn”, and “خوست”

Khost District

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
node 4411949589
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
7054009
Wiki­data ID
Q2216038
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Satellite Map

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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 متون”
  • Persian: “ولسوالی خوست”
  • Pushto: “خوست (متون) ولسوالۍ”
  • Pushto: “خوست ولسوالۍ”
  • Swedish: “Khost Matun”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Khost District”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.