Kamdesh District
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District in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
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Kamdesh is located in Afghanistan Kamdesh Kamdesh Location within Afghanistan | |
| Coordinates: 35°29′00′′N 71°19′00′′E / 35.48333°N 71.31667°E / 35.48333; 71.31667 | |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Province | Nuristan Province |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 24,500[1] |
Kamdesh District[2] (Kamdeish District, Pashto: کامدېش ولسوالۍ, Persian: ولسوالی کامدیش) is a district of Nuristan Province in eastern Afghanistan,[3] sharing a name with the town of Kamdesh. It was originally in Kunar Province [4] and then was moved to the newly created Nuristan Province in 2001.
Boundaries
[edit ]Since March 2004, Kamdesh District borders on:[3]
- Bargi Matal District to the north,
- Pakistan to the east,
- Ghaziabad District and Nari District of Kunar Province to the south,
- Waygal District to the southwest, and
- Parun District to the west.
See also
[edit ]- Battle of Kamdesh, 2009
- Kom people
Notes
[edit ]- ^ "Nuristan Provincial Profile" (PDF). Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
- ^ Kāmdēsh (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ^ a b "Afghanistan Administrative Divisions" Archived 2010年09月23日 at the Wayback Machine map, March 2007, Afghanistan Information Management Services (AIMS)
- ^ "Afghanistan" political map, 1986, United States Central Intelligence Agency
External links
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