Punjjir

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پنجشیر
Punjjir
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Basic data
Country Afghanistan
Capital Bazarak
surface 3610 km²
Residents 153,500 (2015)
density 43 inhabitants per km²
founding April 13, 2004
ISO 3166-2 AF-PAN
politics
governor Keramuddin Keram
Districts in Punjjir (as of 2005)
Districts in Punjjir (as of 2005)

Coordinates: 35 ° 30 '  N , 70 ° 0'  E

View over the Punjjir Valley

Panjshir Province (also Panjshir or Panjshar ; persian پنجشیر Panjshir , DMG Panǧšīr , 'five lions', Pashtun پنجشېر Panjsher ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan .

It was established on April 13, 2004. The province itself, however, goes back to a millennium long history. The population is about 153,500 and the province extends over 3610 km². The administrative seat is in Bazarak . Dari is the main spoken language in Punjjir and the majority of the inhabitants are Tajiks . The province is located about 100 km northeast of Kabul .

Ahmad Shah Massoud , known as "the Lion of Punjjir", was a famous Afghan general who was murdered on September 9, 2001 by suicide bombers . He organized the defense of the valley during the Soviet-Afghan war until the withdrawal of the Soviet army . In the civil war that followed, the Taliban were never able to take Punjjir.

geography

The province is shaped by the eponymous river Pandschir , which cut the narrow Pandschir valley deep into the surrounding mountains of the Hindu Kush. The province extends over the catchment area of the Punjjir above the city of Golbahar . An important trunk road runs through the Punjir Valley. It connects the capital Kabul with the northeastern province of Badachschan .

Administrative division

The Punjjir Province is divided into 7 districts:

  • Bazarak - Lower Punjir Valley between Khenj and Rukha
  • Dara - catchment area of ​​a left Punjjir tributary in the southeast
  • Khenj - middle section of the Punjir Valley
  • Onaba - lower Punjjir valley between Shotol and Rukha
  • Pariyan - the upper section of the Punjir Valley in the north
  • Rukha - lower Pandschir valley between Onaba in the south and Bazarak in the north
  • Shotol - Shotol river valley in the southwest and the lowest section of the Punjjir valley

A map of the districts can be found on the Library of Congress website.

Web links

Commons : Punjshir  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Afghanistan. In: citypopulation.de. Retrieved January 8, 2016 .