Farah
Farah is a city in western Afghanistan that serves as the capital of Farah Province. It is within the jurisdiction of Farah District and has an estimated population of 141,091 people.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: City with 37,400 residents
- Description: capital of Farah Province, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Farah, Afghanistan”, “Faraho”, “Farakh”, “ファラー (アフガニスタン)”, and “ファラーフ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Farah Bala Hisar.
Farah
- Category: locality
- Location: Farah District, Farah, South Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
32.3741° or 32° 22′ 27″ north
Longitude
62.1146° or 62° 6′ 53″ east
Population
37,400
Elevation
662 metres (2,172 feet)
IATA airport code
FAH
UN/LOCODE
AF FAH
Open location code
8J4494F7+JV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Farah” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፋራህ”
- Arabic: “فرآه”
- Arabic: “فراه”
- Asturian: “Farah”
- Azerbaijani: “Farah”
- Azerbaijani: “Fərah (şəhər)”
- Azerbaijani: “Fərah”
- Basque: “Farah”
- Belarusian: “Фарах”
- Bengali: “ফারাহ”
- Catalan: “Farah”
- Cebuano: “Farah”
- Chinese: “法拉”
- Czech: “Faráh”
- Danish: “Farah”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ferah”
- Dutch: “Farah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فراه”
- Esperanto: “Farah”
- Estonian: “Farāh”
- Finnish: “Farah”
- French: “Farah”
- French: “Farâh”
- German: “Farah”
- Greek: “Φαράχ”
- Gujarati: “ફરાહ”
- Hausa: “Farah, Afganistan”
- Hausa: “Farah”
- Hebrew: “פראה”
- Hindi: “फ़राह, अफ़्ग़ानिस्तान”
- Hindi: “फराह”
- Hindi: “फ़राह”
- Indonesian: “Farah, Afganistan”
- Indonesian: “Farah”
- Italian: “Farah”
- Japanese: “ファラー”
- Japanese: “フラダ”
- Javanese: “Farah”
- Kannada: “ಫರಾಹ್”
- Kazakh: “Фарах”
- Kirghiz: “Фарах”
- Korean: “파라”
- Latin: “Phrada”
- Latvian: “Faraha”
- Lithuanian: “Farahas”
- Malay: “Farah”
- Malayalam: “ഫറാഹ്”
- Marathi: “फराह”
- Northern Frisian: “Faraah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Farah”
- Norwegian: “Farah”
- Oromo: “Farah”
- Panjabi: “ਫ਼ਾਰਾਹ”
- Persian: “فراه”
- Polish: “Farah”
- Portuguese: “Farah”
- Pushto: “فراه”
- Pushto: “فراہ”
- Romanian: “Farah”
- Russian: “Фарах”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Farah”
- Sinhala: “ෆාරාහ්”
- Slovenian: “Farah”
- Somali: “Farah”
- Spanish: “Farāh”
- Swahili: “Farah”
- Swedish: “Farah”
- Tajik: “Фароҳ”
- Tajik: “Фора”
- Tamil: “பாரா”
- Tatar: “Фарах”
- Telugu: “ఫరా”
- Thai: “ฟาราห์”
- Turkish: “Ferah”
- Ukrainian: “Фарах”
- Urdu: “فراہ”
- Uzbek: “Faro”
- Vietnamese: “Farah”
- Waray (Philippines): “Farah, Afganistan”
- Western Panjabi: “فراه”
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