Badakhshan
Badakhshan is a state in Ishkashim District, Badakhshan Province and has about 823,000 residents.- Type: State with 823,000 residents
- Also known as: “Badakhsan”, “Bedekhshan Province”, “Velayat-e Badakhshan”, “Wilayat-e”, “بدخشان”, and “ولايت بدکشان”
- Category: locality
- Location: Ishkashim District, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
36.804° or 36° 48′ 15″ northLongitude
71.3677° or 71° 22′ 4″ eastPopulation
823,000Open location code
8J8HR939+J3OpenStreetMap ID
node 312470052OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Badakhshan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ولاية بدخشان”
- Chinese: “巴达赫尚省/巴達赫尚省”
- Czech: “Badachšán”
- French: “Badakhshan”
- German: “Badachschan”
- Greek: “Μπανταχσάν”
- Hindi: “बदख़्शान”
- Hungarian: “Badahsán”
- Japanese: “バダフシャーン州”
- Polish: “Badachszan”
- Russian: “Бадахшан”
- Ukrainian: “Бадахшан”
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