Nimrus

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نیمروز
Nimrus
Iran Turkmenistan Usbekistan Tadschikistan China de-facto Pakistan (von Indien beansprucht) de-facto Indien (von Pakistan beansprucht) Indien Pakistan Nimrus Helmand Kandahar Zabul Paktika Chost Paktia Lugar Farah Uruzgan Daikondi Nangarhar Kunar Laghman Kabul Kapisa Nuristan Pandschschir Parwan Wardak Bamiyan Ghazni Baglan Ghor Badghis Faryab Dschuzdschan Herat Balch Sar-i Pul Samangan Kundus Tachar Badachschanlocation
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Basic data
Country Afghanistan
Capital Saranj
surface 41,005 km²
Residents 165,000 (2015)
density 4 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 AF-NIM
politics
governor Amir Muhammad Akhundzada
Districts in Nimrus Province (as of 2005)
Districts in Nimrus Province (as of 2005)

Coordinates: 31 ° 0 ′  N , 62 ° 0 ′  E

Camel caravan in Nimrus Province

Nimrus (or Nimruz ; Pashto / Dari :نیمروز, DMG Nīmrūz ) is an Afghan province in the south-west of the country.

The province has a population of around 165,000. Its capital is Saranj .

In Iranian mythology , the area of ​​Nimrus is largely identical to Sistan .

Administrative division

The province of Nimrus is divided into the following districts:

Web links

Commons : Province of Nimrus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Afghanistan. In: citypopulation.de. Retrieved January 8, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Ehlers (ed. And trans.): Abū'l-Qāsem Ferdausi: Rostam - The legends from the Šāhnāme . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2002, p. 369 and 371 f.