Farah

Farah is a city in western that serves as the capital of . It is within the jurisdiction of and has an estimated population of 141,091 people.
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  • Type: City with 37,400 residents
  • Description: capital of Farah Province, Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Farah, Afghanistan” and “Farakh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Farah Bala Hisar.

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The Citadel of Farah, also known as the Citadel of Alexander, and locally known as Shar-e-Farahdun is an ancient fort in Afghanistan. When Alexander the Great invaded the area it was known as Prophthasia in Drangiana: the Drangian capital Phrada was just renamed in October 330; 'Prophthasia' means 'Anticipation', modern Farâh, Afghanistan.

Farah

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
United Nations Location Code
AF FAH
Open location code
8J4494F7+JV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312462304
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1142264
Wiki­data ID
Q593156
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Satellite Map

Discover Farah from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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”
  • Esperanto: “Faraho”
  • 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 (アフガニスタン)”
  • Japanese: “ファラー”
  • Japanese: “ファラーフ”
  • 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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