Sultan Eshkashim
Ishkashim is a border town in Badakhshan province of Afghanistan, which has a population of around 12,120 people. The town serves as the capital of Ishkashim district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: capital of Ishkashim District, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
- Also known as: “Ashkasham”, “Eshkashem”, “Es̄kās̄em”, “Ishkamish”, “Ishkamīsh”, “Ishkashem”, “Ishkashim”, “Ishkāshim”, “Ishkāshīm”, “Ishkashim Post”, “Ishkashim, Afghanistan”, “Iskasem”, and “Is̄kās̄em”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ishkashim.
Ishkashim
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Ishkoshim, also Ishkashim, is a village and a jamoat in south-east Tajikistan. It is the seat of Ishkoshim District in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region.
Sultan Eshkashim
- Categories: border city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Ishkashim District, Badakhshan Province, Northeast Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
36.709° or 36° 42′ 32″ northLongitude
71.5768° or 71° 34′ 36″ eastElevation
2,667 metres (8,750 feet)Open location code
8J8HPH5G+JPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1137353100OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Sultan Eshkashim” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إشكاشم”
- Arabic: “عشقاشام”
- Asturian: “Eshkeshem”
- Asturian: “Ishkashim”
- Bengali: “আশকাশাম”
- Bulgarian: “Ишкашим”
- Cebuano: “Ashkāsham”
- Chinese: “伊什卡希姆”
- Dutch: “Ashkasham”
- Dutch: “Ishkashim”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اشكاشم”
- Egyptian Arabic: “عشقاشام”
- Finnish: “Iškašim”
- French: “Ishkashim”
- German: “Ischkaschim”
- Irish: “Ishkashim”
- Japanese: “イシュカーシム”
- Japanese: “エッシュカシェム”
- Persian: “اشکاشم، افغانستان”
- Portuguese: “Ashkasham”
- Portuguese: “Iscaxim”
- Portuguese: “Ishkashim”
- Pushto: “Eshkāshem”
- Pushto: “Ishkāshem”
- Pushto: “اشکاشم، افغانستان”
- Russian: “Ишкашим”
- Spanish: “Eskasem”
- Spanish: “Eskašem”
- Spanish: “Eškašem”
- Swedish: “Ashkasham”
- Swedish: “Eshkashem”
- Swedish: “Ishkashim”
- Swiss German: “Eschkaschem”
- Tosk Albanian: “Eschkaschem”
- Ukrainian: “Ішкашим”
- Urdu: “اشکاشم”
- Uzbek: “Ishkashim tumani”
- Uzbek: “Ishkashim”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sultan Eshkashim”. Photo: Bohndorf Film-Team, CC BY-SA 4.0.