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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE9_paszwF4u0ig8lIWLlgpxM8wZGp_vy-2X-zMH-4NbHMNgPh0Sp-CpL3RCF8aU0A3XRoDrBAlQI07un-pKkQdug1YUCGVo6hl9_idE6mLhn-ShaN0lemot3Aau4n5L82WQitHS5Hnio/s1600/wakhans.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE9_paszwF4u0ig8lIWLlgpxM8wZGp_vy-2X-zMH-4NbHMNgPh0Sp-CpL3RCF8aU0A3XRoDrBAlQI07un-pKkQdug1YUCGVo6hl9_idE6mLhn-ShaN0lemot3Aau4n5L82WQitHS5Hnio/s1600/wakhans.jpg" width="720" /></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.1875px; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Badakhshan Province<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Pashto:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span lang="ps">بدخشان ولایت</span>‎ /<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dari: استان بدخشان) is one of the thirty-four<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>provinces<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country between the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hindu Kush<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>mountains and the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Amu Darya<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>River. It is part of a broader historical Badakhshan<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>region. The province contains 22 to 28<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>districts, over 1,200 villages, and approximately 904,700 people.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cso_2-1" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Feyzabad serves as the provincial capital.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1h22aGBAJsh8aUEc-bU30PjMNfBnj-luIdpfQIPGGKuAhK3gvC597KGdjACET_9QoNsGaAldSgAEChESB-Yui45H3tUfgiFA9sagVuoxqoEW-yMYCmt4nxkMn_7guJoIVIEXwZVh2x9s/s1600/Badakhshan_province_of_Afghanistan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1h22aGBAJsh8aUEc-bU30PjMNfBnj-luIdpfQIPGGKuAhK3gvC597KGdjACET_9QoNsGaAldSgAEChESB-Yui45H3tUfgiFA9sagVuoxqoEW-yMYCmt4nxkMn_7guJoIVIEXwZVh2x9s/s400/Badakhshan_province_of_Afghanistan.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> The northeastern province of Badakhshan has always sat slightly apart  from the rest of Afghanistan. As the plains become scrunched up into a  knot of mountains, and the Hindu Kush collides with the Pamir range, the  distance from Kabul seems to be measured in centuries as much as miles.<br />Badakhshan’s  history as well as its geography reveals this independent streak. A far  outpost of the Achaemenid empire, by the medieval period it was  recognised as a sovereign state, its wealth deriving from the trade  routes through the mountains between China, Kashmir and Bukhara. Timur  tried and failed to subdue it, while his successors sent embassies  instead. In the 19th century Badakhshan was finally subsumed into the  Afghan state but even Abdur Rahman Khan baulked at having to rule it  properly. The Wakhan Corridor, that panhandle of land sticking into  China, was only forced on him when the British and Russians decided they  needed a buffer between their empires. A century later, Badakhshan was  the only part of Afghanistan to resist capture by the Taliban.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/didier_marti/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwORODH-2S0LjUcV2GTsrMWj1P_AoxzCDf6w-5HGuPKkv4P3D2Tx6ir6eWEOOF1xblm6qU2A2DQh1qt0QkWU6UNAegGdCoE05LbMyOGDS8FGQVtBGBlv3ClUA-N08-NdRCP2njLWG0Vhw/s320/3884337005_be1695db47_b.jpg" width="208" /></a></div>It is the scenery that attracts visitors today. The provincial capital of Faizabad provides a gateway to some of the country’s most sublime landscapes, from the Kuchi pastures of Lake Shewa to the Pamirs themselves, home of the last nomadic Kyrgyz on earth, in mountains so high that Marco Polo claimed that even birds couldn’t fly there. Of equal inspiration to the truly intrepid are the mines of Sar-e Sang, source of most of the world’s lapis lazuli. Badakhshan also serves as an entry point into Tajikistan and, potentially, northern Pakistan.<br /><br />Visitors should be aware that Badakhshan is second only to Helmand for opium production. Controlled by Northern Alliance, opium is the backbone of the local economy. Ironically, security is generally fairly good in the province, but you should be extremely circumspect with cameras and questions if travelling in an area with poppy cultivation. When there have been security problems in Badakhshan, these have tended to coincide with eradication programmes, when being a foreigner in certain areas isn’t necessarily a popular thing to be.<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />Read more:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/afghanistan/mazar-e-sharif-and-northeastern-afghanistan/badakhshan?destination_tag_id=355758#ixzz2ZoD7D56E" style="color: #003399; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.lonelyplanet.com/afghanistan/mazar-e-sharif-and-northeastern-afghanistan/badakhshan?destination_tag_id=355758#ixzz2ZoD7D56E</a></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga3xkzwkDEOJVXPK64vGJEbyAVFP7mezbK508cqkIp83CCAZbPCYbFKFwwSGPXZzLhQyI2vtUpStsz-eN1_MhGWI3_CVbVheFY9LZHW-ofDzgsbC1EzHgIr_ybNS1-ibyGjCqaE6H8ve4/s1600/3836517983_c57eea132c_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga3xkzwkDEOJVXPK64vGJEbyAVFP7mezbK508cqkIp83CCAZbPCYbFKFwwSGPXZzLhQyI2vtUpStsz-eN1_MhGWI3_CVbVheFY9LZHW-ofDzgsbC1EzHgIr_ybNS1-ibyGjCqaE6H8ve4/s640/3836517983_c57eea132c_b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.890625px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Shot  on the road between Khorog and Kalaikhum along the pamir highway in  Tajikistan. The river makes the border between Tajikistan and  Afghanistan, so on the left it's an Afghan village Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/didier_marti/">M.Bob</a><span id="goog_1465085987"></span><span id="goog_1465085988"></span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYWOSzasMOpZcl_3fN0wyuFkQXqyXXvRbmPCT5IYgVZ6NuJHuwYPf-4LSmYbP80tgVesrsqDWmHKCxN-FDIcgQPDisBWEErkCVtr1sFhlIYP1rlQ0rVMaihFHbqL3wXfwgfuQAd8ezGyQ/s1600/bd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYWOSzasMOpZcl_3fN0wyuFkQXqyXXvRbmPCT5IYgVZ6NuJHuwYPf-4LSmYbP80tgVesrsqDWmHKCxN-FDIcgQPDisBWEErkCVtr1sFhlIYP1rlQ0rVMaihFHbqL3wXfwgfuQAd8ezGyQ/s640/bd.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>Mountains in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, February of 2009.Photo by John Scott Rafoss of the United States of America.<br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWeSFWFfxwEZanXLkn0utDog0vZm1LnIIP19WU2_u4gpjVrMWaUEan1j3-deHUF-eC0gSst5aaEFtKU3LUqNIhTJ17_hDBVru3x8WCK88EPXV6sOm0lJsFprCeTkkyLok51U-EFXBlEDg/s1600/ghl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWeSFWFfxwEZanXLkn0utDog0vZm1LnIIP19WU2_u4gpjVrMWaUEan1j3-deHUF-eC0gSst5aaEFtKU3LUqNIhTJ17_hDBVru3x8WCK88EPXV6sOm0lJsFprCeTkkyLok51U-EFXBlEDg/s640/ghl.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ghool pala vilage in Raghistan - Badakhshan- Northern Afghanistan</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguluifbGsjroMsz9qDPpHjyVT1v4P2GLcgKwebiU5uqkIpM0GujJgY-tw_V2-_u-0vTe7RVLpL4RBw9ExNQUPRZSTpSzsdM3blGpTGwL77NEPh6dkXZICHD__tWyogczE_48MeFl1vHXA/s1600/kok.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguluifbGsjroMsz9qDPpHjyVT1v4P2GLcgKwebiU5uqkIpM0GujJgY-tw_V2-_u-0vTe7RVLpL4RBw9ExNQUPRZSTpSzsdM3blGpTGwL77NEPh6dkXZICHD__tWyogczE_48MeFl1vHXA/s640/kok.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.890625px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">A view of Kokcha river. Faizabad, the capital city of Badakhshan province- Afghanistan</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiocdFn_oZI1IUQ9AoOCZSaGG5DvjscPR8At7pHLmwIzCSkwkGOKTZHvNJVWZGK1FX42JmUPCAVp2dX1PGrYnWqQ76shacUNuOS5IXxhmZHax7_kCGoDs6GOiEf81lvntUHSOS4MobtrLE/s1600/bd1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiocdFn_oZI1IUQ9AoOCZSaGG5DvjscPR8At7pHLmwIzCSkwkGOKTZHvNJVWZGK1FX42JmUPCAVp2dX1PGrYnWqQ76shacUNuOS5IXxhmZHax7_kCGoDs6GOiEf81lvntUHSOS4MobtrLE/s640/bd1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Somewhere in Badakhshan </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW2mWJCZIqKwYN7rCIawoEvp15EA3wyxmg0qxI5E_XLAFyWxeWAkc11yO4EsLP6RhAL4jfQwR0OyZ-HjtY-6D904QhyphenhyphenF_-PDggLxJ-85QBobpGJc_9MNyUgDB8Tr8qVUWmnxFhtxaGKUs/s1600/bd3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW2mWJCZIqKwYN7rCIawoEvp15EA3wyxmg0qxI5E_XLAFyWxeWAkc11yO4EsLP6RhAL4jfQwR0OyZ-HjtY-6D904QhyphenhyphenF_-PDggLxJ-85QBobpGJc_9MNyUgDB8Tr8qVUWmnxFhtxaGKUs/s1600/bd3.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Natural beauty of Badakhshan</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiakJqrEWh_-aota6C0TQ3-VrZL9B-yJwPVF5HzH60pMJ8y3waqV9Yd9Al9eqmboQMyDQWQ0QVBNUHhLruFhEWc-5jn2TJSDsaBsmu9QOcTKb_XKlgKp9DXnvDYMtrrUmFEjaLktS-M0fM/s1600/bd4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiakJqrEWh_-aota6C0TQ3-VrZL9B-yJwPVF5HzH60pMJ8y3waqV9Yd9Al9eqmboQMyDQWQ0QVBNUHhLruFhEWc-5jn2TJSDsaBsmu9QOcTKb_XKlgKp9DXnvDYMtrrUmFEjaLktS-M0fM/s640/bd4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Afghanistan, with Hindu Kush peeping out behind</div><br /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For more Photos visit-><a href="http://www.kabuliyanhub.com/search/label/Badakhshan"> Badakhshan </a></div>

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Badakhshan Province (Pashto: بدخشان ولایت ‎ / Dari: استان بدخشان) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in...

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