Kamdesh District
Kamdesh District is a district of Nuristan Province in eastern Afghanistan, sharing a name with the town of Kamdesh. It was originally in Kunar Province and then was moved to the newly created Nuristan Province in 2001.- Type: County
- Description: district of Nuristan, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Kamdesh” and “کامدېش”
Kamdesh District
- Categories: district of Afghanistan and locality
- Location: Nuristan, Northeast Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
35.4833° or 35° 28′ 60″ north
Longitude
71.3145° or 71° 18′ 52″ east
Elevation
2,536 metres (8,320 feet)
Open location code
8J7HF8M7+8R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kamdesh District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كامديش”
- Bengali: “কামদেশ জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Kāmdēsh”
- Dutch: “Kamdesh”
- French: “Kamdesh”
- German: “Kamdesh”
- Indonesian: “Kamdesh, Nurestan”
- Italian: “distretto di Kamdesh”
- Italian: “Distretto di Kamdesh”
- Malay: “Daerah Kamdesh”
- Persian: “شهرستان کامدیش”
- Persian: “ولسوالی کامدیش”
- Portuguese: “Kamdesh”
- Pushto: “کامدېش ولسوالۍ”
- Swedish: “Kamdesh”
- Urdu: “کامدیش ضلع”
- Uzbek: “Kamdesh tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Kamdesh”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Kamdesh, Nurestan”
- Welsh: “Kamdesh”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع کامدیش”
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