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Bookmark or Share- Nuristan Province - WikipediaNuristan, also spelled as Nurestan or Nooristan (Pashto: نورستان; Kamkata-vari: [a] Nuriston), is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. It is divided into seven districts and is Afghanistan's least populous province, with a population of around 167,000. [2] Parun serves as the provincial capital.
- Afghan Province Tucked in Mountains Lies Beyond Reach of Aid and TimeNURISTAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan — When the king of Afghanistan decided it was finally time, a bit over a century ago, to bring this forbidding mountainous eastern region to Islam by force, his...
- Nuristan Province - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNuristan Province. Nuristān (Persian: نورستان), also spelled Nurestān or Nooristan, is a region in Afghanistan. It is in the south of the Hindu Kush valleys. The capital is Parun. The ethnic composition is 96% Nuristanis, 2% Pashtuns and 2% Gujars.
- A Rare Glimpse into Afghanistan's Spectacular, Vanishing ForestsEastern Afghanistan’s province of Nuristan is a green oasis in a country largely in the grip of desertification. The area is replete with tree-covered mountains and clear rivers that wind ...
- An Expedition into Afghanistan's Forbidden Mountains in the Nuristan ...For a decade and a half, the forested and rugged region of Nuristan was Afghanistan’s most inaccessible province, a bastion of al-Qaida and the Islamic State.
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