Balkh
Balkh is a town in the Balkh Province of Afghanistan, about 20 km northwest of the provincial capital, Mazar-e Sharif, and some 74 km south of the Amu Darya river and the Uzbekistan border.- Type: Town
- Description: capital of Balkh District, Afghanistan
- Location: Northwest Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
Latitude 36.7581° or 36° 45' 29.3" north | Longitude 66.8981° or 66° 53' 53.1" east |
Population 11,000 | Elevation 348 metres (1142 feet) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 312726837 | GeoNames ID 1147290 |
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Belh
- Arabic: Balkh
- Arabic: بلخ
- Armenian: Բալխ
- Armenian: Պալխ
- Asturian: Balh
- Asturian: Balkh
- Azerbaijani: Bəlx
- Basque: Balkh
- Belarusian: Балх
- Bengali: বাল্খ
- Bosnian: Belh
- Bulgarian: Бактра
- Bulgarian: Балх
- Bulgarian: Заинаспа
- Catalan: Balkh
- Cebuano: Balkh
- Central Bikol: Balkh
- Chinese: 八剌黑
- Chinese: 巴克特拉
- Chinese: 巴尔赫
- Chinese: 巴爾赫
- Chinese: 巴里黑
- Chinese: 班城
- Chinese: 缚喝国
- Chinese: 薄渴罗
- Chinese: 薄知
- Czech: Baktra
- Czech: Balch
- Danish: Balkh
- Dutch: Baktra
- Dutch: Balch
- Dutch: Balkh
- English: Bactra
- English: Baktra
- English: Mother of All Cities
- English: Umm Al-Belaad
- English: Umm al-Bilad
- Esperanto: Balĥo
- Estonian: Balh
- Estonian: Balkh
- Finnish: Balh
- Finnish: Balkh
- Finnish: Balkhi
- French: Balkh
- Georgian: ბალხი
- German: Baktra
- German: Balch
- German: Balkh
- German: Zariastes
- Greek: Ζαρίασπα
- Greek: Μπαλχ
- Hebrew: בלך
- Hindi: बल्ख़
- Hungarian: Balh
- Indonesian: Balkh
- Italian: Bactra
- Italian: Balkh
- Japanese: バクトラ
- Japanese: バルフ
- Japanese: 八剌黒
- Kazakh: Balx
- Kazakh: Балх
- Kazakh: بالح
- Korean: 박트라
- Korean: 발크
- Korean: 발흐
- Kurdish: Balx
- Kurdish: Belx
- Latin: Bactra
- Latvian: Balha
- Literary Chinese: 薄知
- Lithuanian: Baktra
- Lithuanian: Balchas
- Lithuanian: Balh
- Lithuanian: Balkh
- Malay: Daerah Balkh
- Malayalam: Bactra
- Malayalam: Balkh
- Malayalam: ബാക്ട്ര
- Malayalam: ബാൾഖ്
- Malayalam: ബൽഖ്
- Norwegian: Balkh
- Norwegian Bokmål: Balkh
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Balkh
- Ossetian: Балх (сахар)
- Ossetian: Балх
- Persian: باکترا
- Persian: بلخ
- Persian: بلخ باستان
- Persian: زاریاسپا
- Persian: شهر بلخ
- Polish: Balch
- Portuguese: Bactro
- Portuguese: Bactros
- Portuguese: Balkh
- Pushto: بلخ
- Romanian: Balch
- Russian: Бактра
- Russian: Балх
- Russian: Бельх
- Russian: Вазирабад
- Scots: Balkh
- Serbo-Croatian: Baktra
- Serbo-Croatian: Balh
- Slovak: Baktra
- Slovak: Balch
- Slovenian: Balh
- Slovenian: Balkh, Afganistan
- Spanish: Bactra
- Spanish: Bactras
- Spanish: Bactres
- Spanish: Balh
- Spanish: Balj
- Spanish: Zariaspa
- Swedish: Bactra
- Swedish: Baktra
- Swedish: Balch
- Swedish: Balkh
- Swedish: Zainaspa
- Swedish: Zariaspa
- Swiss German: Balch
- Tajik: Balx
- Tajik: Балх
- Tamil: பல்கு
- Tamil: பால்க்
- Tatar: Бәлех
- Thai: แบลค์
- Tosk Albanian: Balch
- Turkish: Belh
- Ukrainian: Балх
- Urdu: بلخ
- Uzbek: Balx
- Vietnamese: Quận Balkh
- Waray (Philippines): Balkh
- Welsh: Balk
- Welsh: Balkh
- Western Armenian: Պալխ
- Western Frisian: Balch
- Western Panjabi: بلخ
- Wu Chinese: 巴尔赫
- Bactresh
- Balhika
- Bamik
- Bazirabad
- Bkahdi
- Bākhtar
- Koh e Alburz
- Vazirabad
Other Places Named Balkh
In the Area
Localities
- Ḩājī Kōṯ
- Khwajah Khaliq MunjaiVillage
- Mōy Mubarak
- QalachaVillage
- Gundan
- Qal‘achah
Landmarks
- Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa ShrineShrine
- Citadel Bala HissarRuin
- Ḩājī Piyādah BābāShrine
- TatayCemetery, 6 km northwest
- Mazār-e ĀghāShrine, 11 km northeast
- Ismalaī ZanShrine, 12 km east
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