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Nuristan

Nuristan, also spelled as Nurestan or Nooristan, known as Nuriston, and historically known as Kafiristan until 1896, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country.
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  • Type: State with 112,000 residents
  • Description: province of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Nooristan Province”, “Nurestān”, “Nūrestān”, “Nurestan Province”, “Nuristan Province”, “Velayat-e Nurestan”, and “努爾斯坦省”
  • Neighbors:

Nuristan

Latitude
35.3° or 35° 18′ north
Longitude
70.8333° or 70° 50′ east
Population
112,000
Elevation
3,471 metres (11,388 feet)
Open location code
8J7G7RXM+X8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 312470055
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1444363
Wiki­data ID
Q167485
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Nuristan” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Nuristani”
  • Arabic: “نورستان”
  • Arabic: “ولاية نورستان”
  • Arabic: “ولايه نورستان”
  • Asturian: “Nurestán”
  • Asturian: “Nuristan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nuristan vilayəti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nuristan”
  • Basque: “Nuristan probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Нурыстан”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Нурыстан”
  • Bengali: “নুরিস্তান প্রদেশ”
  • Bengali: “নুরেস্তান প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Нуристан”
  • Catalan: “Nuristan”
  • Catalan: “Província de Nurestan”
  • Catalan: “Província de Nuristan”
  • Cebuano: “Velāyat-e Nūrestān”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای نوورستان”
  • Chinese: “Nuristan Séng”
  • Chinese: “努利斯坦省”
  • Chinese: “努尔斯坦省”
  • Chinese: “努里斯坦省”
  • Chinese: “紐里斯坦省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Nuristan”
  • Czech: “Núristán”
  • Danish: “Kafiristan”
  • Danish: “Nurestan”
  • Danish: “Nuristan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nurıstan”
  • Dutch: “Kafiristan”
  • Dutch: “Nooristan”
  • Dutch: “Nurestan”
  • Dutch: “Nuristan”
  • Esperanto: “Nuristan”
  • Esperanto: “Nuristano”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Nuristan”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Nuristano”
  • Estonian: “Nūrestāni provints”
  • Estonian: “Nūristāni provints”
  • Finnish: “Nurestanin maakunta”
  • Finnish: “Nuristan”
  • French: “Kaféristan”
  • French: “Kafiristan”
  • French: “Nourestan”
  • French: “Nourestân”
  • French: “Nouristan”
  • French: “Nouristân”
  • French: “Nurestan”
  • French: “Nuristan”
  • Galician: “Nūristān”
  • Georgian: “ნურისტანის პროვინცია”
  • German: “AF-NUR”
  • German: “Nuristan”
  • Greek: “Καφιριστάν”
  • Greek: “Νουρεστάν”
  • Gujarati: “નુરિસ્તાન”
  • Hebrew: “נורסתאן”
  • Hindi: “नूरिस्तान प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “नूरिस्तान”
  • Hindi: “नूरेस्तान”
  • Hungarian: “Nuresztán”
  • Hungarian: “Nurisztán”
  • Icelandic: “Núristan”
  • Indonesian: “Nurestan”
  • Indonesian: “Nuristan”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Nurestan”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Nuristan”
  • Italian: “Nurestan”
  • Italian: “provincia di Nurestan”
  • Japanese: “ヌーリスターン州”
  • Javanese: “Nuristan”
  • Kannada: “ನುರಿಸ್ತಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Нұрестан”
  • Korean: “누레스탄 주”
  • Korean: “누리스탄 주”
  • Korean: “누리스탄”
  • Korean: “누리스탄주”
  • Latvian: “Nūrestāna”
  • Latvian: “Nūrestānas vilajets”
  • Lithuanian: “Nuristano provincija”
  • Malay: “Nurestan”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Nuristan”
  • Malayalam: “Nurestan Province”
  • Malayalam: “Nuristan Province”
  • Malayalam: “കാഫിറിസ്താൻ”
  • Malayalam: “നൂറിസ്താൻ”
  • Malayalam: “നൂറിസ്ഥാൻ”
  • Marathi: “नुरिस्तान”
  • Mazanderani: “نورستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nuristan Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Provinsi Nuristan”
  • Mongolian: “Нуристан аймаг”
  • Mongolian: “Нуристан муж”
  • Newari: “नुरेस्तान प्रदेश”
  • Newari: “नूरस्तान प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान”
  • Newari: “नूरस्तान प्रान्त”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون نورستان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nurestan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nuristan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nuristān”
  • Norwegian: “Nuristān”
  • Ossetian: “Нуристан”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੂਰਿਸਤਾਨ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Persian: “د نورستان ولايت”
  • Persian: “نورستان”
  • Persian: “ولایت نورستان”
  • Polish: “Kafiristan”
  • Polish: “Kafirstan”
  • Polish: “Nurestan”
  • Polish: “Nuristan”
  • Portuguese: “Nurestan”
  • Portuguese: “Nurestão”
  • Portuguese: “Nuristão”
  • Pushto: “د نورستان ولايت”
  • Pushto: “نورستان ولايت”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Nuristan”
  • Russian: “Кафиристан”
  • Russian: “Нуристан”
  • Saraiki: “نورستان”
  • Scots: “Nuristan Province”
  • Serbian: “Provincija Nurestan”
  • Serbian: “Нуристан”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Нурестан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nooristan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nurestan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nuristan”
  • Sindhi: “نورستان صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “නරිස්ටන්”
  • Slovenian: “AF-NUR”
  • Slovenian: “Nuristan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نورستان ویلایت”
  • Spanish: “Nuristan”
  • Spanish: “Nuristán”
  • Spanish: “Nūristān”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Nuristan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Nuristán”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Nuristān”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Nūristan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Nūristān”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Nurestan”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Nuristan”
  • Swedish: “Nurestan”
  • Swedish: “Nuristan”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Nurestan”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Nuriston”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Нуристон”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Нӯристон”
  • Tamil: “நூரிஸ்தான் மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “னுரிஸ்தான்”
  • Telugu: “నూరిస్తాన్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดนูริสถาน”
  • Turkish: “Nuristan Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Nuristan”
  • Uighur: “نۇرىستان ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Нуристан”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ نورستان”
  • Uzbek: “Nuriston viloyati”
  • Uzbek: “Nuriston”
  • Uzbek: “Sobiq Kofiriston”
  • Vietnamese: “Nurestan”
  • Vietnamese: “Nuristan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nurestan”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ نورستان”
  • Wu Chinese: “努里斯坦省”
  • Yue Chinese: “努利斯坦省”

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