Khamyab District is a frontier district in the province of

Jowzjan Jowzjan, sometimes spelled Jawzjan or Jozjan (Dari: ), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the country bordering neighboring Turkmenistan. The province is divided into 11 Districts of Afghanistan, districts ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

. It shares borders with

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...

to the north and west,

Khwaja Du Koh Khwaja Du Koh is a town and the center of Khwaja Du Koh District, Jowzjan Province, Afghanistan. It is situated few miles northwest of the city of Sheberghan and a mile northeast from the main Andkhoy-Sheberghan road. It is located at at 306 m ...

district to the south and the Mingajik and

Qarqin Qarqin ( fa, قرقین, tk, Garkin) is a town located in the northern part of Qarqin District, Jowzjan Province, Afghanistan at at 249 m altitude on the southern bank of the Amu Darya River, Qarqin is the center of Qarqin District. The popula ...

districts to the east. As of 2006, the population is 12,400. The district center is the village of Khamyab (Kham-e Ab). The

Amu Darya The Amu Darya, tk, Amyderýa/ uz, Amudaryo// tg, Амударё, Amudaryo ps, , tr, Ceyhun / Amu Derya grc, Ὦξος, Ôxos (also called the Amu, Amo River and historically known by its Latin language, Latin name or Greek ) is a major rive ...

river flows in the northern end of the district and forms part of the international border. Within the district is the westernmost point of the river on Afghan territory, and the area here is also the

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in the country (about 255 m above sea level). The riverbank in Khamyab and further downstream in Qarqin has suffered from

erosion Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location where it is deposited. Erosion is distin ...

on the Afghan side for decades, with the emergence of islands and a moving borderline. The floods have damaged agricultural lands of locals.

References

District Map

Map of Settlements
AIMS, August 2002 Districts of Jowzjan Province {{Jowzjan-geo-stub