Mes Aynak
Mes Aynak, also called Mis Ainak or Mis-e-Ainak, was a major Buddhist settlement 40 km southeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, located in a barren region of Logar Province.Photo: Jerome Starkey (journalist), CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Mes Aynak mine
The Mes Aynak mine is a large copper mine located in the east of Afghanistan in Logar Province. Mes Aynak represents one of the largest copper reserve in Afghanistan and in the world having estimated reserves of 690 million tonnes of ore grading 1.65% copper. Mes Aynak mine is situated 1½ km west of Mes Aynak.Mes Aynak
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement, mining region, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Muḩammad Āghah District, Logar, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.2714° or 34° 16′ 17″ northLongitude
69.30913° or 69° 18′ 33″ eastInception
1960Open location code
8J6F78C5+HMOpenStreetMap ID
way 1072277404OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q721468
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Thai—“Mes Aynak” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mes Aynak”
- Arabic: “منجم أيناك”
- Bengali: “মেস আইনাক”
- Catalan: “Mes Aynak”
- Cebuano: “Mes Aynak”
- Chinese: “梅斯·艾纳克”
- Dutch: “Mes Aynak”
- Egyptian Arabic: “منجم ايناك”
- Finnish: “Mes Aynak”
- French: “Mes Aynak”
- German: “Mes Aynak”
- Hebrew: “מס עיינאכ”
- Hungarian: “Mesz Ajnak”
- Italian: “Mes Aynak”
- Japanese: “メス・アイナク”
- Japanese: “メス・アイナック”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mes Aynak”
- Norwegian: “Mes Aynak”
- Persian: “مسعینک”
- Pushto: “د عينكو مس”
- Pushto: “د عینکو د مسو کان”
- Pushto: “عينک د تامبې کان”
- Pushto: “عينک د مېسو کان”
- Russian: “Мес Айнак”
- Spanish: “Mes Aynak”
- Swedish: “Mes Aynak”
- Tamil: “மெஸ் ஐநாக்”
- Thai: “เมส เอย์แนก”
- Thai: “เมส ไอนัค”
- Thai: “เมสไอนัค”
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