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Garmsir (Pashto: ګرمسير; from Persian گرمسیر, meaning "hot place" [1]) is the center of Garmsir District in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. It is situated on the eastern bank of the Helmand River on 31°07′00″N 64°12′00″E / 31.1167°N 64.2000°E / 31.1167; 64.2000 at 714 m altitude and 63 km southwest of Lashkargah
Garmsir District (or Garmser; [2] Pashto: ګرمسير; from Persian گرمسیر, meaning "hot place") is located in the southern part of Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The district is large, but all the villages are along the Helmand River .
Ostensibly this map is very similar to Colton's 1858 map of the same region, however, there are a number of significant differences. Johnson reduced Colton's original map in order to expand the map westward by about 10 degrees, making it possible for him to incorporate all of Turkey as well as add significant detail in northwestern Africa and ...
A blank map of the districts of Afghanistan. The districts are grouped by province and province borders are shown in red. Date: 19 February 2009: Source: Map originally from Maplibrary.org who in turn have extracted it from GADM version 0.9 which source the data for Afghanistan as comming from the USGS.
Throughout the 2001-2021 war in Afghanistan, Helmand was a hotbed of insurgent activities [10] [11] [12] and was often considered at the time to be Afghanistan's "most dangerous" province. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The province also witnessed some of the heaviest fighting during the war, where at its peak hundreds of civilians were being killed monthly. [ 15 ]
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