Balkh
Balkh is a city in northern Afghanistan, with an estimated population of 148,972 people. It is the second largest city of Balkh Province and is within the jurisdiction of Balkh District.
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- Town with about 77,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 370 metres (1,200 feet)
- Description: capital of Balkh District, Afghanistan
- Also known as“Bactra”“Bactresh”“Bākhtar”“Baktra”“Balch”“Balhika”“Bamik”“Bazirabad”“Bkahdi”“Koh e Alburz”“Mother of All Cities”“Umm Al-Belaad”“Umm al-Bilad”“Vazirabad”
Places of Interest
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Balkh
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Latitude
36.7581° or 36° 45′ 29″ north
Longitude
66.898° or 66° 53′ 53″ east
Open location code
8J88QV5X+65
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Balkh” goes by many names.
BelhAlbanian
ባልክAmharic
بلخArabic
ԲալխArmenian
BalhAsturian
BalkhAsturian
उम्म अल-बेलादAwadhi
बल्ख़Awadhi
BalkhAzerbaijani
BəlxAzerbaijani
BalkhBasque
БалхBelarusian
বাল্খBengali
BelhBosnian
БактраBulgarian
БалхBulgarian
ЗаинаспаBulgarian
BalkhCatalan
BalkhCebuano
BalkhCentral Bikol
بەڵخCentral Kurdish
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Chinese
BaktraCzech
BalchCzech
BalkhDanish
BaktraDutch
BalchDutch
BalkhDutch
بلخEgyptian Arabic
BalĥoEsperanto
BalhEstonian
BalkhEstonian
BalhFinnish
BalkhFinnish
BalkhiFinnish
ბალხიGeorgian
ΖαρίασπαGreek
ΜπαλχGreek
BalkhHausa
בלח‘Hebrew
בלךHebrew
उम्म अल-बिलादHindi
बल्ख़Hindi
BalhHungarian
BalkhIndonesian
BactraItalian
BalkhItalian
バクトラJapanese
バルフJapanese
八剌黒Japanese
BalkhJavanese
BalxKazakh
БалхKazakh
بالحKazakh
БалхKirghiz
박트라Korean
발크Korean
발흐Korean
BalxKurdish
BelxKurdish
BactraLatin
BaktraLatvian
BalhaLatvian
薄知Literary Chinese
BaktraLithuanian
BalchasLithuanian
BalhLithuanian
BalkhLithuanian
BalkhMalay
Daerah BalkhMalay
BactraMalayalam
BalkhMalayalam
ബൽഖ്Malayalam
ബാക്ട്രMalayalam
ബാൾഖ്Malayalam
BalkhMaltese
БалхMoksha
BalkhNorwegian
BalkhNorwegian Bokmål
BalkhNorwegian Nynorsk
BalkhOromo
БалхOssetian
Балх (сахар)Ossetian
ਬਲਖ਼Panjabi
باکتراPersian
بلخPersian
بلخ باستانPersian
زاریاسپاPersian
شهر بلخPersian
BalchPolish
بلخPushto
BalchRomanian
БактраRussian
БалхRussian
Балх (город)Russian
БельхRussian
ВазирабадRussian
BalkhScots
БалхSerbian
BaktraSerbo-Croatian
BalhSerbo-Croatian
بلخSindhi
BaktraSlovak
BalchSlovak
BalhSlovenian
BalkhSlovenian
BalakhSomali
BalkhSwahili
BactraSwedish
BaktraSwedish
BalchSwedish
BalkhSwedish
ZainaspaSwedish
ZariaspaSwedish
BalchSwiss German
BalxTajik
БалхTajik
பால்க்Tamil
БалхTatar
БәлехTatar
బాల్ఖ్Telugu
บัลฆ์Thai
BaktraTurkish
BalıkTurkish
BelhTurkish
БалхUkrainian
بلخUrdu
BalxUzbek
BalkhVietnamese
Quận BalkhVietnamese
BalkhWaray (Philippines)
BalkWelsh
BalkhWelsh
ՊալխWestern Armenian
BalchWestern Frisian
بلخWestern Panjabi
巴尔赫Wu Chinese
八剌黑Yue Chinese
Umm Al-Belaad
Umm al-Bilad
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