Kandahar District
Kandahar District is one of the 20 districts of Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan, with an estimated population of 732,629 settled residents. It encompasses Kandahar, the capital and largest city of Kandahar Province.- Type: County
- Description: district in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Dand District”, “Kandahar”, and “کندهار”
Kandahar District
- Categories: district of Afghanistan and locality
- Location: Kandahar, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.5073° or 31° 30′ 26″ north
Longitude
65.7149° or 65° 42′ 54″ east
Elevation
987 metres (3,238 feet)
Open location code
8J37GP47+WX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kandahar District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قندهار”
- Bengali: “কান্দাহার জেলা”
- Cebuano: “Kandahar District”
- Chinese: “坎大哈/堪達哈”
- Chinese: “坎大哈县”
- Czech: “Kandahár”
- French: “Kandahâr”
- Italian: “distretto di Kandahar”
- Italian: “Distretto di Kandahar”
- Japanese: “カンダハール郡”
- Malay: “Daerah Kandahar”
- Persian: “شهرستان قندهار”
- Persian: “ولسوالی قندهار”
- Pushto: “ډنډ ولسوالۍ”
- Pushto: “کندهار ولسوالۍ”
- Russian: “Данд”
- Russian: “Кандагар”
- Swedish: “Kandahar”
- Tamil: “கந்தகார் மாவட்டம்”
- Turkish: “Kandehar ilçesi”
- Urdu: “قندھار ضلع”
- Uzbek: “Qandahor tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Kandahar”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Kandahar”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع قندھار”
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