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Kamdesh District

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Kamdesh
District
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
ProvinceNuristan Province
Population
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 • Total24,500[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

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Since March 2004, Kamdesh District borders on:[3]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Nuristan Provincial Profile" (PDF). Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ Kāmdēsh (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  3. ^ a b "Afghanistan Administrative Divisions" Archived 2010-09-23 at the Wayback Machine map, March 2007, Afghanistan Information Management Services (AIMS)
  4. ^ "Afghanistan" political map, 1986, United States Central Intelligence Agency
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