Shorabak District

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Shorabak District
شورابک ولسوالۍ
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A mountain range photographed during a visit to Shorabok District in March 2015
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Shorabak District
Coordinates: 30°11′00″N66°06′00″E / 30.18333°N 66.10000°E / 30.18333; 66.10000
Country Flag of the Taliban.svg Afghanistan
Province Kandahar
Area
  Total
4.15 km2 (1.60 sq mi)
Elevation
1,243 m (4,078 ft)
Population
 (2020)
  Total
13,020
  Density3,100/km2 (8,100/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+4:30 (AFT)
Postal code
3852

Shorabak District (also Shorawak [1] ) is a remote district situated in the southeastern part of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, 110 km south and east of Kandahar. It borders Reg District to the west, Spin Boldak District to the north and Pakistan to the east and south. The population is 13,020 as of 2020. [2] The district center Shorabak is located at 985 m altitude in the Eastern part of the district.

Contents

The district is currently controlled by the Taliban, who took over the district on February 21, 2017. [3]

Geography

Shorabak District is situated on the Afghan-Pakistani border, west of the Sulaiman Mountain Range. It has an average elevation of 1,243 meters above the sea level. [4]

References

  1. "Shorawak". GEOnet Names Server . Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  2. "Kandahār (Province, Afghanistan) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  3. "Taliban overruns Afghan district where al Qaeda ran training camps - FDD's Long War Journal". longwarjournal.org. 21 February 2017.
  4. "Shurabak topographic map, elevation, terrain". Topographic maps. Retrieved 2023-03-20.