Mes Aynak
Mes Aynak, also called Mis Ainak or Mis-e-Ainak, was a major Buddhist settlement 40 km southeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, located in a barren region of Logar Province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jerome Starkey (journalist), CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mes Aynak
- Type: Mining area
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement, archaeological site, mining region, and industry
- Location: Kabul, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Thai—“Mes Aynak” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mes Aynak”
- Arabic: “منجم أيناك”
- Bengali: “মেস আইনাক”
- Catalan: “Mes Aynak”
- Cebuano: “Mes Aynak”
- Chinese: “梅斯·艾纳克”
- Dutch: “Mes Aynak”
- Egyptian Arabic: “منجم ايناك”
- Finnish: “Mes Aynak”
- French: “Mes Aynak”
- German: “Mes Aynak”
- Hebrew: “מס עיינאכ”
- Hungarian: “Mesz Ajnak”
- Italian: “Mes Aynak”
- Japanese: “メス・アイナク”
- Japanese: “メス・アイナック”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mes Aynak”
- Norwegian: “Mes Aynak”
- Persian: “مسعینک”
- Pushto: “د عينكو مس”
- Pushto: “د عینکو د مسو کان”
- Pushto: “عينک د تامبې کان”
- Pushto: “عينک د مېسو کان”
- Russian: “Мес Айнак”
- Spanish: “Mes Aynak”
- Swedish: “Mes Aynak”
- Tamil: “மெஸ் ஐநாக்”
- Thai: “เมส เอย์แนก”
- Thai: “เมส ไอนัค”
- Thai: “เมสไอนัค”
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