Lashkargah
Lashkargāh, also known as Lakhkargah, and historically known as Bost or Bust, is a city in southwestern Afghanistan and the capital of Helmand Province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 45,800 residents
- Description: Capital of Helmand Province, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Bist”, “Bost”, “Bust”, “Lashkar Gah”, “Las̲h̲kargāh Busṯ”, “Lashkargakh”, “Laškargāh”, “Nawab City”, and “لښکرگاه بسټ”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bost Airport.
Bost Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bost Airport is an airport serving Lashkargah, a city in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. It is located on the east bank of the Helmand River, 5 miles north of its junction with the Arghandab River. It is also 75 miles west of Kandahar.
Lashkargah
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Lashkargah District, Helmand Province, South Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.5831° or 31° 34′ 59″ northLongitude
64.3601° or 64° 21′ 37″ eastPopulation
45,800Elevation
786 metres (2,579 feet)Open location code
8J36H9M6+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 312368833OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1134720Wikidata ID
Q476800
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Lashkargah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بست”
- Arabic: “پست”
- Arabic: “لشكر غاه”
- Arabic: “لشكر كاه”
- Arabic: “لشكر گاه”
- Arabic: “لشكركاه”
- Asturian: “Lashkar Gah”
- Azerbaijani: “Ləşgərgah”
- Belarusian: “Лашкаргах”
- Bengali: “লস্করগাহ”
- Bulgarian: “Лашкар Гах”
- Catalan: “Lashkargah”
- Cebuano: “Lashkar Gāh”
- Chinese: “拉什卡尔加”
- Chinese: “拉什卡爾加”
- Czech: “Laškar Gáh”
- Czech: “Laškargáh”
- Danish: “Lashkar Gah”
- Danish: “Lashkargah”
- Dutch: “Lashkar Gah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لشكر كاه”
- Esperanto: “Laŝkar Gah”
- Esperanto: “Laŝkargaho”
- Estonian: “Bost”
- Estonian: “Lashkar Gah”
- Estonian: “Lashkargah”
- Estonian: “Lashkargāh”
- Estonian: “Laškargah”
- Finnish: “Lashkar Gah”
- Finnish: “Laškargah”
- French: “Lachkar Gah”
- French: “Lachkargah”
- French: “Lashkar Gah”
- French: “Laskkar Gah”
- German: “Laschkar Gah”
- German: “Laschkarga”
- German: “Lashkar Gal”
- German: “Lashkarga”
- Greek: “Λασκάρ Γκα”
- Greek: “Λασκάρ Γκαχ”
- Gujarati: “લશ્કર ગહ”
- Hebrew: “לשכר גאה”
- Hindi: “लश्कर गाह”
- Hindi: “लश्करगाह”
- Indonesian: “Lashkar Gah”
- Indonesian: “Lashkargah”
- Irish: “Lashkar Gah”
- Italian: “Lashkar Gah”
- Italian: “Lashkar-Gah”
- Japanese: “ラシュカルガー”
- Kannada: “ಲಷ್ಕರ್ ಗಾಹ್”
- Korean: “라슈카르가”
- Latvian: “Laškargāha”
- Lithuanian: “Laškar Gahas”
- Malay: “Lashkar Gah”
- Malayalam: “ലഷ്കർഗാഹ്”
- Marathi: “लष्कर गह”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lashkar Gah”
- Norwegian: “Lashkargah”
- Panjabi: “ਲਸ਼ਕਰਗਾਹ”
- Persian: “لشكر گاه”
- Persian: “لشکرگاه”
- Persian: “لشگرگاه”
- Polish: “Lashkagar”
- Polish: “Laszkar Gah”
- Polish: “Laszkargah”
- Portuguese: “Lashkar Gah”
- Pushto: “Lashkar Gāh”
- Pushto: “لښکرګاه”
- Pushto: “لښکرگاه”
- Romanian: “Lashkar Gah”
- Russian: “Бост”
- Russian: “Лашкар Гах”
- Russian: “Лашкаргах”
- Russian: “Лашкарёвка”
- Sinhala: “ලෂ්කාර් ගාහ්”
- Slovenian: “Laškargah”
- Spanish: “Lashkar Gah”
- Spanish: “Lashkar Gar”
- Spanish: “Laskar Gāh”
- Spanish: “Laškar Gah”
- Spanish: “Laškar Gāh”
- Swedish: “Lashkar Gah”
- Tagalog: “Lashkar Gah”
- Tagalog: “Lashkar Gar”
- Tagalog: “Lashkarga”
- Tagalog: “Lashkargah”
- Tajik: “Лашкаргоҳ”
- Tamil: “லாசுகர் கா”
- Tatar: “Ләшкәргәһ”
- Telugu: “లష్కర్ ఘా”
- Thai: “เลชการ์ กาฮ์”
- Turkish: “Büst”
- Turkish: “Leşkergah”
- Ukrainian: “Лашкар Гах”
- Ukrainian: “Лашкаргах”
- Urdu: “بست لشکرگاہ”
- Urdu: “بست”
- Urdu: “لشکر گاہ”
- Urdu: “لشکرگاہ”
- Uzbek: “Lashkargoh (Afgʻoniston)”
- Uzbek: “Lashkargoh”
- Venetian: “Lashkar Gah”
- Vietnamese: “Lashkar Gah”
- Vietnamese: “Lashkargah”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lashkar Gah”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lashkargah”
- Welsh: “Lashkargah”
- Western Panjabi: “لشکر گاہ”
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