Panjwayi (Pashto: پنجوايي; also spelled Panjwaye, Panjwaii, Panjway, Panjawyi, Panjwa'i, or Panjwai) is a district in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. It is located about 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of Kandahar. The district borders Helmand Province to the southwest, Maywand District to the west, Zhari District to the north, Arghandab, Kandahar and Daman districts to the east and Reg District to the south. Panjwayi was reduced in size in 2004 when Zhari District was created[1] out of the northern part of it, on the northern side of the Arghandab River, which now forms the northern boundary.
The district center is Bazar-i-Panjwayi, located in the northern part of the district near the Arghandab River. The district population was around 77,200 in 2006, most of which are peasants and poorly educated due to unavailability of schools. The area is irrigated by the Helmand and Arghandab Valley Authority.[2]
- ^ Chandrasekaran, Rajiv (2013). Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan. London: Bloomsbury. p. 281. ISBN 978-1408831205.
- ^ "The Helmand Valley Project in Afghanistan: A.I.D. Evaluation Special Study No. 18". C. Clapp-Wicek & E. Baldwin, U.S. Agency for International Development. December 1983. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 8, 2013.