Kamdesh District

Kamdesh
District
Kamdesh

Location within Afghanistan

Coordinates: 35°29′00″N 71°19′00″E / 35.48333°N 71.31667°E / 35.48333; 71.31667
Country  Afghanistan
Province Nuristan Province
Population (2010)
  Total 24,500[1]

Kamdesh District[2] (Kamdeish District, Pashto: کامدېش ولسوالۍ, Persian: ولسوالی کامدیش) is a district of Nuristan Province in eastern Afghanistan.[3] It was originally in Kunar Province[4] and then was moved to the newly created Nuristan Province in 2001.

Boundaries

Since March 2004, Kamdesh District borders on:[3]

See also

Notes

  1. "Nuristan Provincial Profile" (PDF). Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  2. Kāmdēsh (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  3. 1 2 "Afghanistan Administrative Divisions" map, March 2007, Afghanistan Information Management Services (AIMS)
  4. "Afghanistan" political map, 1986, United States Central Intelligence Agency


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