Shirin Tagab District Explained

Shirin Tagab
Native Name:شیرین تگاب
Native Name Lang:fa
Settlement Type:District
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Afghanistan
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Faryab
Coordinates:36.25°N 64.82°W
Pushpin Map:Afghanistan
Pushpin Label Position:right
Elevation M:525

Shirin-Tagab (meaning in Uzbek language: "Sweet Water", also known as Koh-i-Saiyād) is the district center in the Faryab Province, Afghanistan. The population was 141,642 in 2013.[1] Ethnic composition includes 10% Pashtun, 10% Tajik and 80% Uzbek.[2]

This Turkmen populated township is 33 km to the south of Dawlatabad. The valley of Shirin-Tagab hosts many villages with a central township comprising two hundred shops. The Shirin-Tagab road in a point, which is 20 km from Maymana, branches off the river's stream valley. In 1969 it was named Deh-e Now. The people had developed a bazaar with 200 shops and eight caravanseries. Livestock and grain are the main items of transactions in the bazaar before the war.

Because most of the central and northern districts in Faryab Province have a salty water supply from the Shirin Tagab River, many civilians bring water from the Shirin Tagab bazaar.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Faryab Province . . Government of Afghanistan and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) . 2012-10-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130414220913/http://www.mrrd-nabdp.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=128&Itemid=117 . 2013-04-14 .
  2. Web site: District Profile. UNHCR. 13 October 2015.