"Badakhshan Province (Dari/Pashto: بدخشان, Badaxšān) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bordered by Tajikistan´s ...
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Gorno-Badakhshan in the north and the Pakistan-administered Lower and Upper Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan in the southeast. It also has a 91-kilometer (57-mile) border with China in the east.
It is part of a broader historical Badakhshan region, parts of which now also lie in Tajikistan and China. The province contains 22 districts, over 1,200 villages and approximately 1,054,087 people. Fayzabad serves as the provincial capital." - (en.wikipedia.org 18.11.2021)
