Wama District

Wama District[2] (Pashto: واما ولسوالۍ, Persian: ولسوالی واما) is a district of Nuristan Province in Afghanistan.[3] In the 2004 Afghanistan administrative reorganization it lost territory to the newly created Nurgram and Parun districts.

Not to be confused with Wama, Kenya.

Wama
District
Wama is located in Afghanistan
Wama
Wama
Location within Afghanistan
Coordinates: 35°11′00″N 70°48′00″E
Country Afghanistan
ProvinceNuristan Province
Population
 (2010)[1]
 • Total10,800

Notes
  1. "Nuristan Provincial Profile" (PDF). Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  2. Wāmā (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  3. "Afghanistan Administrative Divisions" map, March 2007, Afghanistan Information Management Services (AIMS)


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