Wardak

وردک Wardak
Basic data
Country	Afghanistan
Capital	Maidan Shahr
surface	8,938.1 km²
Residents	596,300 (2015)
density	67 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	AF-WAR
politics
governor	Mohammad Halim Fedai
	Districts in Wardak Province (as of 2005)

34.4 68.4Coordinates: 34 ° 24 ' N , 68 ° 24' E

Wardak ( Dari :وردک; Pashtun ميدان وردګ Maidan Wardag ) is a province ( velayat ) in central Afghanistan with 596,300 inhabitants.

Originally known under the Persian name Maidan since the 8th century , the province was renamed Wardak during the Pashtunization of the country in the 1960s and 1970s, and similar individual districts, e.g. B. Markaz-e Behsud in De Beshsud Markaz . The province's name is borrowed from a Pashtun tribe that is native to Central Asia . The current governor is Mohammad Halim Fidai.

Administrative division

Wardak province is divided into 8 districts ( woluswali ):

Sons and Daughters of the Province

Abdul Rahim Wardak (* 1940), Afghan politician
Parvez Tohman Yahya , Persian geographer, musician and poet of the 15th century
Begum Gowhar Shah , famous Persian theologian and poet of the 12th century
Margar Arif , Persian resistance fighter and troop leader in the 19th century against the English
Mohammad Ahmad Khan Ariyar , Persian scientist (mathematician and physicist) and historian from the 15th century
Ghulam Mohammad Farhad (1901–1984), engineer and politician of the 20th century

Web links

Commons : Wardak Province - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Ministry of Rural Development: Wardak Provincial Profile in the National Rural Development Program
AIMS Wardak District Profiles

Individual evidence

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

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