NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Wardak Province

Wardak (Persian: وردک, also spelt Vardak) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the centre of the country. Its capital is Meydan Shahr. Image File history File links Afghanistan-Vardak. ... 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. ... Maidan, also Maydan / Meydan / Meydan Shahr (Persian: Ù…ÛŒØ¯Ø§Ù† Ø´Ù‡Ø±), is the capital of Vardak Province, Afghanistan. ... 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. ... 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... Maidan, also Maydan / Meydan / Meydan Shahr (Persian: Ù…ÛŒØ¯Ø§Ù† Ø´Ù‡Ø±), is the capital of Vardak Province, Afghanistan. ...

The population, about 70,000, is a mixture of 70% Pashtuns, 20% Hazaras and 10% others. Most Wardak residents are Pashto speakers. Pashto (پښتو; also known as Afghan, Pushto, Pashto, Pashtoe, Pashtu, and Pukhto) is the language spoken by the ethnic Afghan otherwise known as the Pashtun people who inhabit Afghanistan and the Western provinces of Pakistan. ...

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Categories: Afghanistan geography stubs | Provinces of Afghanistan Maydan Shahr is a district in the east of Wardak Province, Afghanistan. ... Jalrez is a district in the east of Wardak Province, Afghanistan. ... Day Mirdad is a district in the south of Wardak Province, Afghanistan. ... Chaki Wardak (also known as Chak) is a district in the south of Wardak Province, Afghanistan. ... Nirkh is a district of about 480 square kilometres in the east of Wardak Province, Afghanistan. ... 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... Image File history File links Flag_of_Afghanistan. ... Badakhshan (Persian: Ø¨Ø¯ Ø®Ø´Ø§Ù†) is one of the provinces of Afghanistan, consisting of 29 districts. ... Badghis province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Categories: Afghanistan geography stubs | Provinces of Afghanistan ... Balkh is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Buddhas of Bamyan, which dated back to Pre-Islamic Afghanistan, were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 calling them Un-Islamic. Photo by Hadi Zaheer Bamyan is one of the most beautiful and fertile valleys in Afghanistan. ... Daykundi (Persian: Ø¯Ø§ÛŒÚ©Ù†Ø¯ÛŒ, also spelt Daikondi, DÄykondÄ« or Daikundi) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Farah is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Categories: Stub | Provinces of Afghanistan ... Ghazni is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Ghowr (sometimes spelled Ghor) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Helmand (Persian: Ù‡Ù„Ù…Ù†Ø¯) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Herat is a province of Afghanistan; together with Badghis, Farah, and Ghor provinces it makes up the western region of the country. ... Jowzjan province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Kabul is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Kandahar province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Kapisa is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... A U.S. Marine maintains an overwatch position in the Khost province in Afghanistan Khost province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Kunar (also spelled Konar) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country and on the border with Pakistan. ... Kunduz is one of the provinces of Afghanistan, centered on the city of Kunduz in Afghanistan, with an area of 7,827 km square, and a population of about 583,000. ... Laghman is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Lowgar is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Nangarhar province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Nimruz (Persian: Ù†ÛŒÙ…Ø±ÙˆØ²) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Nurestan (also spelled Nuristan or Nooristan) (Persian: Ù†ÙˆØ±Ø³ØªØ§Ù†) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Oruzgan is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Paktia (Persian: Ù¾Ú©ØªÛŒØ§ ) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, in the east of the country. ... Paktika (Persian: Ù¾Ú©ØªÛŒÚ©Ø§) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Panjshir (literally Five Lions in Persian) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Parvan province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Samangan (Persian: Ø³Ù…Ù†Ú¯Ø§Ù†) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Sar-e Pol (Persian: Ø³Ø± Ù¾Ù„) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Takhar (Persian: ØªØ®Ø§Ø±) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Zabul, Afghanistan is the only Afghan province in which the Taliban have named (in the post-U.S. invasion of Afghanistan era) their own governor and officials to rival those appointed by the government in Kabul. ...

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