Wama District

Not to be confused with Parwan Province.
Wama
District
Wama

Location within Afghanistan

Coordinates: 35°11′00″N 70°48′00″E / 35.18333°N 70.80000°E / 35.18333; 70.80000
Country  Afghanistan
Province Nuristan Province
Population (2010)[1]
  Total 10,800

Wama District[2] (Pashto: واما ولسوالۍ, Persian: ولسوالی واما) is a district of Nuristan Province in Afghanistan.[3] In the 2004 Afghanistan administrative reorganization it lost territory to the newly created Nurgram and Parun districts.

Notes

  1. "Nuristan Provincial Profile" (PDF). Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  2. Wāmā (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  3. "Afghanistan Administrative Divisions" map, March 2007, Afghanistan Information Management Services (AIMS)


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