The Qadis District is located in the southern part of Badghis province,

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 ...

, between the districts Jawand in the east,

Qala i Naw Qala-e-Naw ( prs, قلعه نو) is a town in Qala e Naw District and the capital of Badghis Province, in north-west Afghanistan. Its population was estimated at 9,000 in 2006, of which 80% are Tajiks, Hazaras, and Aimaq Hazara. Other significa ...

in the west, Muqur and Bala Murghab in the north. In the south is the

Herat province Herat (Persian: ) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north-western part of the country. Together with Badghis, Farah, and Ghor provinces, it makes up the north-western region of Afghanistan. Its primary city and ...

. The capital is Qadis. The Firozkhoi tribe of the

Aimaq people The Aimaq ( fa, ایماق, Aimāq) or Chahar Aimaq (), also transliterated as Aimagh, Aimak and Aymaq, are a collection of Sunni and mostly Persian-speaking nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes. They live mostly in the central and western highlands ...

once occupied the area. Qadis was also the epicentre of the 2022 Afghanistan earthquake, which killed 28 people.

References

Districts of Badghis Province {{Badghis-geo-stub