Nad Ali
نادعلی | |
|---|---|
District | |
 Students during a lesson at Nad e Ali Central School in Helmand. | |
  Nad Ali | |
| Coordinates: 31°38′N 64°14′E / 31.64°N 64.24°E | |
| Country |  Afghanistan |
| Province | Helmand Province |
| Population (2012)[1] | |
| • Total | 88,600 |
Nad Ali or Nad-e Ali is a district in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.[2] Marja is an unincorporated agricultural district in Nad Ali. The area is irrigated by the Helmand and Arghandab Valley Authority (HAVA).[3] A small town of the same name lies 11 km to the west of the Helmand River, at the coordinates shown at the top of the page. The town of Nad-e Ali was built in 1954 as part of the HAVA irrigation project, and was settled by 3,000 predominantly Pashtun families who were given newly arable land.[4]
The village of Shin Kalay has made advances in the education of children that was recognized and published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).
- ^ "Settled Population of Helmand Province" (PDF). Central Statistics Organization. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
- ^ "District Profile" (PDF). UNHCR. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2005. Retrieved 3 August 2006.
- ^ The Helmand Valley Project in Afghanistan: AID Evaluation Special Study No. 18 C. Clapp-Wicek & E. Baldwin, US Agency for International Development, published December 1983 (pdf)
- ^ Dupree, Louis (1997). Afghanistan (2nd ed.). Oxford Pakistan Paperbacks. p. 503. ISBN 978-0-19-577634-8.