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Badakhshan

American  
[bah-dahkh-shahn] / bɑ dɑxˈʃɑn /

noun

  1. a former province in NE Afghanistan.


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"The incident occurred in Khash District of Badakhshan province where four workers at a mine died", Ehsanullah Kamgar, the spokesman for Badakhshan's police told AFP, adding the deaths occurred on Friday.

From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026

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

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2025

Flooding on Friday also killed at least one person in Badakhshan, a mountainous eastern province, where it destroyed homes, small dams and bridges and killed 2,000 livestock, the provincial diaster management department said.

From New York Times • May 11, 2024

In his remarks on Tuesday, Qari Fasihuddin Fitrat, a Taliban commander from the northern region of Badakhshan and the chief of army staff, condemned incursions by foreign drones into Afghan airspace.

From Reuters • Apr. 12, 2023

These hawks are much esteemed by the chiefs of Badakhshan, Bokhara, etc.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry

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