Balkh

Balkh is a city in northern , with an estimated population of 148,972 people. It is the second largest city of and is within the jurisdiction of Balkh District.
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  • Type: Town with 138,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Balkh District, Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Bactras”, “Bactres”, “Bactresh”, “Bactros”, “Bākhtar”, “Baktra”, “Balhika”, “Balik”, “Balık”, “Balk”, “Balkhi”, “Balque”, “Bamik”, “Bazirabad”, “Bkahdi”, “Koh e Alburz”, “Mother of All Cities”, “Umm Al-Belaad”, “Umm al-Bilad”, “Vazirabad”, “Zainaspa”, “Zariaspa”, “Zariastes”, “Бактра”, “Балх (город)”, “Бельх”, “Заинаспа”, “باکترا”, “بلخ باستان”, “زاریاسپا”, “شهر بلخ”, “उम्म अल-बिलाद”, “उम्म अल-बेलाद”, “ബാക്ട്ര”, “ബാൾഖ്”, “박트라”, “발크”, “バクトラ”, “八剌黒”, “巴克特拉”, “巴里黑”, “班城”, “缚喝国”, and “薄渴罗”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Green Mosque.

Mosque
Photo: Bluuurgh, Public domain.
The , or the Mosque of Khawaja Abu Nasr…

Balkh

Latitude
36.7581° or 36° 45′ 29″ north
Longitude
66.898° or 66° 53′ 53″ east
Population
138,000
Elevation
348 metres (1,142 feet)
Open location code
8J88QV5X+65
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312726837
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1147290
Wiki­data ID
Q182159
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Balkh” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Belh”
  • Amharic: “ባልክ”
  • Arabic: “بلخ”
  • Armenian: “Բալխ”
  • Asturian: “Balh”
  • Asturian: “Balkh”
  • Awadhi: “बल्ख़”
  • Azerbaijani: “Balkh”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bəlx”
  • Basque: “Balkh”
  • Belarusian: “Балх”
  • Bengali: “বাল্‌খ”
  • Bosnian: “Belh”
  • Bulgarian: “Балх”
  • Catalan: “Balkh”
  • Cebuano: “Balkh”
  • Central Bikol: “Balkh”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەڵخ”
  • Chinese: “巴尔赫”
  • Chinese: “巴爾赫”
  • Czech: “Balch”
  • Danish: “Balkh”
  • Dutch: “Balch”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلخ”
  • Esperanto: “Balĥo”
  • Estonian: “Balkh”
  • Finnish: “Balkh”
  • French: “Balkh”
  • Georgian: “ბალხი”
  • German: “Balch”
  • Greek: “Ζαρίασπα”
  • Greek: “Μπαλχ”
  • Hausa: “Balkh”
  • Hebrew: “בלח‘”
  • Hebrew: “בלח’”
  • Hebrew: “בלך”
  • Hindi: “बल्ख”
  • Hindi: “बल्ख़”
  • Hungarian: “Balh”
  • Indonesian: “Balkh”
  • Italian: “Balkh”
  • Japanese: “バルフ”
  • Javanese: “Balkh”
  • Kazakh: “Balx”
  • Kazakh: “Балх”
  • Kazakh: “بالح”
  • Kirghiz: “Балх”
  • Korean: “발흐”
  • Kurdish: “Balx”
  • Kurdish: “Belx”
  • Latin: “Bactra”
  • Latvian: “Balha”
  • Literary Chinese: “薄知”
  • Lithuanian: “Balchas”
  • Malay: “Balkh”
  • Malay: “Daerah Balkh”
  • Malayalam: “ബൽഖ്”
  • Maltese: “Balkh”
  • Moksha: “Балх”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balkh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balkh”
  • Norwegian: “Balkh”
  • Oromo: “Balkh”
  • Ossetian: “Балх (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Балх”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਲਖ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਲਖ਼”
  • Persian: “بلخ”
  • Polish: “Balch”
  • Portuguese: “Bactro”
  • Portuguese: “Balkh”
  • Pushto: “بلخ”
  • Romanian: “Balch”
  • Russian: “Балх”
  • Russian: “Вазирабад”
  • Scots: “Balkh”
  • Serbian: “Балх”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Balh”
  • Sindhi: “بلخ”
  • Slovak: “Balch”
  • Slovenian: “Balh”
  • Slovenian: “Balkh”
  • Somali: “Balakh”
  • Somali: “Balkh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلخ”
  • Spanish: “Balj”
  • Swahili: “Balkh”
  • Swedish: “Balkh”
  • Swiss German: “Balch”
  • Tajik: “Balx”
  • Tajik: “Балх”
  • Tamil: “பல்கு”
  • Tamil: “பால்க்”
  • Tatar: “Балх”
  • Tatar: “Бәлех”
  • Telugu: “బల్ఖ్”
  • Telugu: “బాల్ఖ్”
  • Thai: “บัลฆ์”
  • Turkish: “Belh”
  • Ukrainian: “Балх”
  • Urdu: “بلخ”
  • Uzbek: “Balx”
  • Vietnamese: “Balkh”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Balkh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Balkh”
  • Welsh: “Balkh”
  • Western Armenian: “Պալխ”
  • Western Frisian: “Balch”
  • Western Panjabi: “بلخ”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴尔赫”
  • Yue Chinese: “八剌黑”
  • “Balkh”

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