Daman District is situated in the central part of the
Kandahar Province,
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...
. It borders
Panjwai and
Kandahar
Kandahar is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city, after Kabul, with a population of about 614,118 in 2015. It is the capital of Kandahar Pro ...
districts to the west,
Shah Wali Kot District
Shah Wali Kot District (, ) is situated in the northern part of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. It borders Khakrez District to the west, Naish District and Oruzgan Province to the north, Zabul Province to the east and Daman and Arghandab d ...
to the north,
Zabul Province
Zabul (Pashto/Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the south of the country. It has a population of 249,000. Zabul became an independent province from neighbouring Kandahar in 1963. Historically, it was part of the Zab ...
to the northeast,
Arghistan and
Spin Boldak districts to the east and
Reg District to the south. The population is 30,700 (2006). The center is the village of
Daman, located in the central part of the district. The area is irrigated by the
Helmand and Arghandab Valley Authority.
[(pdf) The Helmand Valley Project in Afghanistan: A.I.D. Evaluation Special Study No. 18]
C Clapp-Wicek & E Baldwin, U.S. Agency for International Development, published December 1983
The
Kandahar International Airport
Ahmad Shah Baba International Airport, also referred to as Kandahar International Airport (, ), and by some military officials as Kandahar Airfield (KAF), is located in the Daman District, Afghanistan, Daman District of Kandahar Province in Afgh ...
is in the central part of the district, South-West from Daman. The district is currently being focused by USAID and CIDA where hundreds of projects are being implemented.
Villages
1.
Dayi, Daman District
2. Landai Kalli
3. Naway Deh
4. Byaban Dara
5. Bashar Kalli
6. Saidano Kalacha
7.
8.
References
External links
Afghanistan: Improved Roads Unlocks Access to Services and Opportunities(The World Bank, November 14, 2017)
AIMS District map
Districts of Kandahar Province
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