Samangan Province

For places in Iran, see Samangan, Iran (disambiguation).
Samangan
سمنگان
Province
Samangan Province
Samangan Province
Map of Afghanistan with Samangan highlighted
Location of Samangan within Afghanistan
Country Afghanistan
CapitalAybak
Government
 • GovernorAbdul Rahman Muslim Kunduzi[1]
 • Deputy GovernorAbdul Manan[2]
Area
 • Total
13,438 km2 (5,188 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[3]
 • Total
438,235
 • Density33/km2 (84/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+04:30 (Afghanistan Time)
Postal code
20xx
ISO 3166 codeAF-SAM
Main language(s)Persian, Uzbeki and Turkmeni

Samangan (Dari: سمنگان; Pashto: سمنګان) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located north of the Hindu Kush mountains in the central part of the country. The province covers 11,218 square kilometres (4,331 sq mi) and is surrounded by Sar-e Pol Province in the west, Balkh in the north, Baghlan in the east, and Bamyan in the south.

Samangan province is divided into 7 districts and contains 674 villages.[4] It has a population of about 325,000 [1][3] which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. The city of Aybak serves as the provincial capital.

In 2021, the Taliban gained control of the province during the 2021 Taliban offensive.

  1. ^ "د سمنګان والي د ایبک اباد د مرکزي ساحې له مخورو سره وکتل – الاماره پښتو".
  2. ^ "د نږدې شلو ولایاتو لپاره نوي والیان او امنیې قوماندانان وټاکل شول". 7 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference nsia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Samangan Province". Government of Afghanistan and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development. Archived from the original on April 14, 2013. Retrieved 2012-10-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)