NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Samangan province

Samangan (Persian: سمنگان) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country bordered by Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The province covers 6,425 square miles and has a population of approximately 406,000 people. Image File history File links Afghanistan-Samangan. ... Subnational entity is a generic term for an administrative region within a country â€” on an arbitrary level below that of the sovereign state â€” typically with a local government encompassing multiple municipalities, counties, or provinces with a certain degree of autonomy in a varying number of matters. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Dari (Ø¯Ø±ÛŒ) is the local written name for the Persian language in Afghanistan used mainly in official papers. ... Persian, (local name: FÄrsÄ« or PÄrsÄ«), is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... Afghanistan consists of 34 provinces, or velayat: Badakhshan Badghis Baghlan Balkh Bamiyan Daikondi - established March 28, 2004 Farah Faryab Ghazni Ghowr Helmand Herat Jowzjan Kabul Kandahar Kapisa Khost Konar Kondoz Laghman Lowgar Nangarhar Nimruz Nurestan Oruzgan Paktia Paktika Panjshir - established April 13, 2004 Parvan Samangan Sar-e Pol Takhar Vardak...

Its capital Samangan is known for its ancient ruins including notably the Takht e Rustam. Archaeologists are desperate to work in this province as wars and the Taliban have destroyed many of these artifacts. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Samangan Province. ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... Flag flown by the Taliban. ...

A series of earthquakes struck the province on March 3, 2002, causing the loss of thousands of lives and homes. Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998. ...

Nowadays people call the province Samangan, but the capital town of the province is Aybak.

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