Jawand is the largest

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Badghis Province Bādghīs (Dari: ) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northwest of the country, on the border with Turkmenistan. It is considered to be one of the country's most underdeveloped provinces, with the highest poverty r ...

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, located in the southeast. Its population is estimated at 186,000, although a 1990 estimate by the

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(USAID) puts the population at 46,403. Its capital is

Jawand Jawand (also romanized as Javand) is a town and the capital of Jawand District, in Badghis Province, Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlock ...

. Jawand has approximately 380 villages, with nearly all of them ravaged by poverty, hunger and disease. There are no paved roads, no doctors or medical clinics and no schools.

References

*https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4349166,00.html

External links

Map of Jawand
(PDF) Districts of Badghis Province {{Badghis-geo-stub