Shirchan Bandar
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شېرخان بندر Shirchan Bandar |
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| Basic data | |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Kunduz | |
| ISO 3166-2 | AF-KDZ |
Schirchan Bandar (also: Shērkhān Bandar, Persian شېرخان بندر) is a border town and port in Kunduz Province in northern Afghanistan on the Pandsch River . The place used to be called Qezel Qal'eh before it was renamed after Shir Khan Nashir , the khan of the Kharoti and governor of the Kunduz region in the 1930s. The port connects the cities of Kabul and Kunduz in Afghanistan with Qurghonteppa and Dushanbe in Tajikistan .