Baharak is a small town and seat of
Baharak District Badakhshan Province
Badakhshan Province (Persian/ Uzbek: , ''Badaxšān'') is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bordered by Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan in the north and the Pakistani regions of Lower ...
in north-eastern
Afghanistan
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. It is roughly 15 kilometers from Jurm, on the
Kokcha River
The Kokcha River ( fa, رودخانه کوکچه) is located in northeastern Afghanistan. A tributary of the Panj river, it flows through Badakhshan Province in the Hindu Kush. It is named after the Koksha Valley
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.
Baharak Girls' School was opened on December 17, 2006, by
Munshi Abdul Majeed the Governor of Badakhshan Province, it serves about 3000 girls who attend in three separate shifts during the day.
Climate
Baharak has a
humid continental
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climate (
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* Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...
: ''Dsb'') with warm, dry summers and cold, snowy winters.
References
Populated places in Baharak District
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