Badakhshan

[bah-dahkh-shahn]

noun

1. a former province in NE Afghanistan.

Example Sentences

The total area under opium poppy cultivation this year was estimated at 10,200 hectares, mostly in the north-east of the country, with Badakhshan province accounting for the largest share.

Read more on BBC

In the malnutrition ward of the Badakhshan regional hospital in the north-east, there were 26 children in 12 beds.

Read more on BBC

A 20-minute drive away, the clinic was in Shesh Pol village in Afghanistan's north-eastern Badakhshan province.

Read more on BBC

It doesn't look like much but in Badakhshan's mountainous, unforgiving terrain, where a lack of access has been a major reason for historically high maternal mortality rates, the clinic was a critical lifeline, part of a wider programme implemented during the tenure of the US-backed government in the country, to reduce maternal and newborn deaths.

Read more on BBC

Getting to it, through Badakhshan's treacherous landscape is risky.

Read more on BBC