East Afghanistan
Ghazni
Ghazni District

Ghazni

Ghazni, historically known as Ghaznayn or Ghazna, also transliterated as Ghuznee, and anciently known as Alexandria in Opiana, is a city in southeastern with a population of around 190,000 people.
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  • Type: City with 141,000 residents
  • Description: city in Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Gajani”, “Ghaznīn”, “Ghuzni”, and “Shahr-e Ghaznī”

Ghazni

Latitude
33.5449° or 33° 32′ 42″ north
Longitude
68.4132° or 68° 24′ 48″ east
Population
141,000
Elevation
2,179 metres (7,149 feet)
IATA airport code
GZI
United Nations Location Code
AF GZI
Open location code
8J5CGCV7+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312452077
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1141269
Wiki­data ID
Q173731
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ghazni” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غزنة”
  • Arabic: “غزنه”
  • Arabic: “غزني”
  • Armenian: “Ղազնի”
  • Asturian: “Gazni”
  • Asturian: “Ghazni”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qəzni”
  • Bashkir: “Ғәзни”
  • Basque: “Gazni”
  • Basque: “Ghazni”
  • Belarusian: “Газні”
  • Belarusian: “Газьні”
  • Bengali: “গজনি”
  • Bengali: “গজনী”
  • Bulgarian: “Газни”
  • Catalan: “Gazna”
  • Catalan: “Gazni”
  • Catalan: “Ğaznī”
  • Catalan: “Ghazna”
  • Catalan: “Ghazni”
  • Cebuano: “Ghazni”
  • Chinese: “加兹尼”
  • Chinese: “加茲尼”
  • Chinese: “吉慈尼”
  • Chinese: “哥疾宁”
  • Chinese: “鹤悉那”
  • Croatian: “Gazni”
  • Croatian: “Ghazni”
  • Czech: “Ghazna”
  • Czech: “Ghazní”
  • Danish: “Ghazni”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ğezni”
  • Dutch: “Ghazna”
  • Dutch: “Ghazni”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “غزنه”
  • Esperanto: “Gazni”
  • Esperanto: “Gaznio”
  • Estonian: “Ghaznī”
  • Finnish: “Ghazni”
  • French: “Ghazni”
  • French: “Ghaznî”
  • Galician: “Ghazni”
  • Georgian: “ღაზნი”
  • German: “Ghazna”
  • German: “Ghazni”
  • Greek: “Γάζνα”
  • Greek: “Γκάζνα”
  • Greek: “Γκαζνί”
  • Greek: “Γκάζνι”
  • Gujarati: “ગઝની”
  • Hausa: “Ghazni”
  • Hebrew: “ע’זני”
  • Hindi: “ग़ज़नी”
  • Hungarian: “Gazni”
  • Indonesian: “Ghazni”
  • Irish: “Ghazni”
  • Italian: “Ghazna”
  • Italian: “Ghazni”
  • Japanese: “ガズナ”
  • Japanese: “ガズニー”
  • Kannada: “ಘಜ್ನಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಘಜ಼್ನಿ”
  • Korean: “가즈나”
  • Korean: “가즈니”
  • Latin: “Alexandria Gasnensis”
  • Latin: “Gazna, Ghazni”
  • Latvian: “Gazni”
  • Latvian: “Gaznī”
  • Literary Chinese: “伽色尼”
  • Lithuanian: “Gazna”
  • Lithuanian: “Gaznis”
  • Lithuanian: “Ghazni”
  • Malay: “Ghazni”
  • Malayalam: “Ghazna”
  • Malayalam: “Ghazni”
  • Malayalam: “ഗസ്നി”
  • Malayalam: “ഘസ്നി”
  • Malayalam: “ഘാസ്നി”
  • Marathi: “गझनी”
  • Mongolian: “Газни”
  • Nepali: “गजनी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ghazni”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ghazna”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ghazni”
  • Norwegian: “Ghazni”
  • Ossetian: “Газни”
  • Panjabi: “ਗਜ਼ਨੀ”
  • Persian: “غزنه”
  • Persian: “غزنی”
  • Persian: “غزنین”
  • Polish: “Ghazni”
  • Portuguese: “Gásni”
  • Portuguese: “Gázni”
  • Portuguese: “Ghazni”
  • Pushto: “غزنه”
  • Pushto: “غزني ښار”
  • Pushto: “غزني”
  • Pushto: “غزنين”
  • Pushto: “غزنی ښار”
  • Pushto: “غزنی”
  • Romanian: “Ghazni”
  • Russian: “Газна”
  • Russian: “Газни”
  • Sanskrit: “गजनी”
  • Scots: “Ghazni”
  • Serbian: “Gazni”
  • Serbian: “Газни”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gazni”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ghazni”
  • Silesian: “Ghazni”
  • Sindhi: “غزني”
  • Sinhala: “ඝස්නි”
  • Slovenian: “Gazni”
  • South Azerbaijani: “غزنی”
  • Spanish: “Gazna”
  • Spanish: “Gazni”
  • Spanish: “Gaznī”
  • Spanish: “Ġazni”
  • Spanish: “Ġaznī”
  • Spanish: “Ghazna”
  • Spanish: “Ghazni”
  • Swedish: “Gazna”
  • Swedish: “Ğazni”
  • Swedish: “Ghazna”
  • Swedish: “Ghazni”
  • Tajik: “Ғазна”
  • Tajik: “Ғазнӣ”
  • Tamil: “காசுனி”
  • Tatar: “Газни”
  • Telugu: “గజ్ ని”
  • Thai: “กัซนี”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดกัซนี”
  • Turkish: “Gazne”
  • Turkish: “Gazni”
  • Ukrainian: “Газні”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґазні”
  • Urdu: “غزنی”
  • Uzbek: “Gʻazna”
  • Venetian: “Ghazni”
  • Vietnamese: “Ghazni”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ghazni”
  • Welsh: “Ghazni”
  • Western Panjabi: “غزنی”
  • Wu Chinese: “加兹尼”
  • Yue Chinese: “加茲尼”

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