Wakhan District

Wakhan واخان (in Pashto and Persian) · Вахон (in Tajik)
District
Nature of the Wakhan
The location of Wakhan District within Badakhshan Province
Coordinates: 37°07′45″N 73°37′07″E / 37.129240°N 73.618680°E / 37.129240; 73.618680Coordinates: 37°07′45″N 73°37′07″E / 37.129240°N 73.618680°E / 37.129240; 73.618680
Country	Afghanistan
Province	Badakhshan
Village numbers	112
Capital	Khandud
Government
• Governor	Nasratullah Nayel
Area
• Total	11,258 km2 (4,347 sq mi)
Population
• Total	16,873

Wakhan District is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan Province in eastern Afghanistan. The total population for the district is about 13,000 residents. The district has three international borders: Tajikistan to the north, Pakistan to the south (specifically Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral District), and with the Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang to the east. The capital of the district is the village of Khandud, which has a population of 1,244. It is the only district in Afghanistan which contains a population of Kyrgyz people.

See also[]

• Afghanistan–China border
• Wakhan
• Wakhan Corridor

External links[]

• Map at the Afghanistan Information Management Services