Pur Chaman District

Pur Chaman پُرچمن
District
Pur Chaman Location within Afghanistan[1]
Coordinates: 33°08′24″N 63°51′36″E / 33.14000°N 63.86000°E / 33.14000; 63.86000
Country	Afghanistan
Province	Farah
Population  (2020)[2]
• Total	115,000

Pur Chaman (also transliterated as Purchaman or Porchaman) is a mountainous district in Farah province, Afghanistan. Its population is approximately 95% Tajik with a Pashtun minority. The main village, also called Purchaman 33°8′29″N 63°51′41″E / 33.14139°N 63.86139°E / 33.14139; 63.86139 is situated at 1431 m altitude.^{[citation needed]}

Religious role

Pur Chaman was the center of operations for the Naqshbandi Sufi leader (pir) of the Aimaq ethnic group until the late 1970s, when the last pir, Baha'uddin Jan, was killed under the Taraki government.^[3]

Sources

• UNHCR District Profile, compiled September–October 2004, accessed 2006-06-06 (PDF).

External links

• Map of Farah Province settlements (Pur Chaman District) IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix, March 2018
• http://www.afghanan.se/afghanan_2011/Afghanistan%20Mapper/Farah%20Map/pur_chaman.pdf Map of Settlements] AIMS, May 2002^{[dead link]}
• Map of Pur Chaman(PDF) Archived 17 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine

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