Kushk District

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Kushk District is an administrative district in northwestern Afghanistan known for its location along the border with Turkmenistan within Herat Province.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kushk District canonical 2
Kushk Rabat Sangi District 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative district
district
administrativeDivisionOf Afghanistan
borderCrossingWith Turkmenistan
borderInfrastructure railway link at Torghundi
road crossing at Torghundi
borderSecurityResponsibilityOf Afghan authorities
bordersWith Turkmenistan
borderType international border
country Afghanistan
hasBorderCrossing Torghundi border crossing
hasBorderRiver Kushk River
hasClimate semi-arid climate
hasCountryCode AF
hasEconomicActivity agriculture
cross-border trade
hasFunction border control area
local governance unit
hasLanguage Dari Persian
linked to: Persian language

Pashto
linked to: Pashto language
hasMajorEthnicGroup Pashtuns
Tajiks
Turkmens
hasProvinceCapital Herat
hasSettlement Kushk
Torghundi
hasStrategicImportance access to Central Asian markets
trade route between Afghanistan and Turkmenistan
hasTransportCorridor Herat–Turkmenistan corridor
locatedIn Herat Province
northwestern Afghanistan
locatedInRegion Central Asia
Greater Khorasan (historical)
linked to: Khorasan
locatedNorthOf Herat city
linked to: Herat
locatedOnContinent Asia
locatedSouthOf Turkmenistan
namedAfter Kushk River
partOf Herat Province
partOfAdministrativeRegion Western Afghanistan
provinceCapital Herat
timeZone Afghanistan Time
utcOffset +4:30

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Herat Province hasDistrict Kushk District
Gulran District hasBorderWith Kushk District
Guzara District hasBorderWith Kushk Rabat Sangi District
linked to: Kushk District