Mihtarlam District is located in the center of

Laghman Province Laghman (Persian language, Persian/Pashto: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. It has a population of about 502,148, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. Laghman hosts a large numbe ...

of Afghanistan and consists of the urban centre and provincial capital

Mihtarlam Mihtarlam (, ), also spelled Mehtar Lam, is the sixteenth-largest city of Afghanistan. It is the capital of Laghman Province and center of Mihtarlam District. It is the only large urban settlement in the province. The town is situated in the va ...

, 24 major villages and 269 sub-villages.

Etymology

Mihtarlam derives its name from Mihtarlam Baba ( Lamech), who was reputed to be the father of the prophet

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Geography

It borders

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to the west, Alishing and Alingar districts to the north and Qarghayi District to the east and south.

Demographics

The district's population is 121,200 (as of 2006) - 60%

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, 35% Tajik and 5% Pashai. The city of Mehterlam has a population of 32,949. It has 10 districts and a total land area of 1,397 hectares. The total number of dwellings in this city is 3,661.

Land use

The Alishang river pours into

Alingar River The Alingar River (also Alingâr) in Laghman Province of Afghanistan is one of the major tributaries of the Kabul River, and part of the Indus River The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayas, Himalayan river ...

just south of the district center, and the lands around them are irrigated. Agriculture is the main source of income. Many young men search for work in

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and

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. About 59% of the houses were partially or fully destroyed during the wars. Many people fled, but now they are returning.

is located in eastern Afghanistan 40 km from

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and between two rivers: Alishang and Alingar. It is almost equally divided between built-up land (51%) and non built-up land (49%). Residential land is largely clustered in Districts 1–3. District 1 is also home to a large commercial and institutional area (50 ha).

References

External links

AIMS district map2003 AIMS district profile
Districts of Laghman Province {{Laghman-geo-stub