Sheberghan
Sheberghan is the capital of Jowzjan Province in Afghanistan. It is in the region historically known as Bactria.
- Type: City with 60,000 residents
- Description: capital city of the Jowzjan Province in northern Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Markaz-e Wilāyat-e Shibirghan”, “Ŝebergano”, “Sebeṟghān”, “Shabirghan”, “Shaburgan”, “Shaburghan”, “Shaburghān”, “Shahr-e Sheberghān”, “Shayurgan”, “Sheberkhan”, “Shebirghan”, “Shefrogan”, “Shibargan”, “Shibarghan”, “Shibarghān”, “Shibergan”, “Shibirghan”, “Sibargan”, “Sibarġan”, “Šibargan”, “Šibarghan”, “Šibirgan”, “Szebergan”, “اشبورقان”, “شاهپورگان”, “شبرغن”, “شبورقان”, “شورقان”, “شَیُرغان”, “مرکز ولايت شبرغان”, “シバルガン”, and “シュベルガーン”
Sheberghan
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Jowzjan, Northwest Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
36.6671° or 36° 40′ 1″ north
Longitude
65.7509° or 65° 45′ 3″ east
Population
60,000
Elevation
360 metres (1,181 feet)
Open location code
8J87MQ82+R9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Sheberghan” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሽብርጋን”
- Arabic: “شبرغان”
- Asturian: “Sheberghan”
- Asturian: “Sibargán”
- Azerbaijani: “Şibircən”
- Azerbaijani: “Şibirğan”
- Belarusian: “Шыбарган”
- Bengali: “শিবিরঘান”
- Bengali: “সেবেরঘান”
- Bulgarian: “Шеберган”
- Catalan: “Xibarghan”
- Cebuano: “Shibirghān”
- Chinese: “希比尔甘/希比爾甘”
- Chinese: “希比尔甘”
- Chinese: “希比爾甘”
- Czech: “Šaberghán”
- Czech: “Šeberghán”
- Danish: “Sheberghan”
- Dutch: “Sjeberghan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شبرغان”
- Esperanto: “Ŝebergan”
- Estonian: “Sheberghān”
- Finnish: “Šeberghan”
- Finnish: “Sheberghan”
- French: “Chéberghân”
- French: “Chibirchan”
- Georgian: “შიბარღანი”
- German: “Scheberghan”
- German: “Schibirgan”
- Greek: “Σεμπαργάν”
- Greek: “Σιμπαργκάν”
- Greek: “Σιμπιργκάν”
- Gujarati: “શેબર્ગન”
- Hausa: “Shibirghan”
- Hebrew: “שברגאן”
- Hindi: “शबरग़ान”
- Hindi: “शिबिरघान”
- Indonesian: “Sheberghan”
- Indonesian: “Shibirghan”
- Irish: “Sheberghan”
- Italian: “Sheberghan”
- Japanese: “シェベルガーン”
- Japanese: “シビルガン”
- Javanese: “Shibirghan”
- Kannada: “ಷೆಬರ್ಘನ್”
- Kazakh: “Шибирған”
- Kirghiz: “Шибирган”
- Korean: “셔베르간”
- Korean: “시바르간”
- Latvian: “Šebergāna”
- Latvian: “Šibargana”
- Lithuanian: “Šibarganas”
- Maithili: “शेबरघन”
- Malay: “Sheberghan”
- Malay: “Shibirghan”
- Malayalam: “ഷെബെർഘാൻ”
- Marathi: “शेबरगन”
- Nepali: “शेबरगान”
- Nepali: “शेबेरघन”
- Northern Frisian: “Scheberghaan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sheberghan”
- Norwegian: “Sheberghan”
- Oromo: “Shibirghan”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਬਰਗਾਨ”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਿਬਿਰਘਾਨ”
- Persian: “شبرغان”
- Polish: “Szeberghan”
- Portuguese: “Sheberghan”
- Portuguese: “Shibirghan”
- Pushto: “شبرغان”
- Romanian: “Sheberghan”
- Russian: “Шеберган”
- Russian: “Шибарган”
- Russian: “Шибирган”
- Sinhala: “ශේබර්ඝාන්”
- Somali: “Shibirghan”
- Spanish: “Shibirgán”
- Spanish: “Sibargán”
- Spanish: “Šibarġan”
- Swahili: “Shibirghan”
- Swedish: “Sheberghan”
- Tajik: “Шибирғон”
- Tamil: “செபேர்கன்”
- Tatar: “Шибирган”
- Telugu: “షెబెర్గన్”
- Telugu: “షెబెర్గాన్”
- Thai: “ชีบาร์ฆาน”
- Turkish: “Şibircân”
- Turkish: “Şibirgan”
- Ukrainian: “Шибарган”
- Ukrainian: “Шібірган”
- Ukrainian: “Шібірґан”
- Urdu: “شبرغان”
- Uzbek: “Shibirgʻon”
- Uzbek: “Shoburgon”
- Venetian: “Sheberghan”
- Vietnamese: “Sheberghan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sheberghan”
- Western Panjabi: “شبرغان”
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