Wakhan District

Wakhan واخان
District
Mountains in Wakhan
The location of Wakhan District within Badakhshan Province
Coordinates: 37°07′45″N 73°37′07″E
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 (Persian: واخان) is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan. The district has a border with neighboring Tajikistan in the north, Xinjiang in China to the east, and Pakistan to the south (specifically Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral District).

See also

• Afghanistan–China border
• Wakhan
• Wakhan Corridor

External links

• Food and non-food items were given to the residents of Wakhan district of Badakhshan province on YouTube (Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA Pashto))
• The visit of the head of Badakhshan culture information to Wakhan on YouTube (RTA Dari)
• Prisoners of the Afghan Pamir on YouTube
• Afghanistan: In the Wakhan Corridor - The roads of the impossible on YouTube