Mardyan District
district of Faryab Province, Afghanistan
Mardyan (Persian: مردیان) is a district situated in the central eastern part of the Jowzjan Province, Afghanistan. It borders Mingajik District to the west, Qarqin District to north, Balkh Province and Fayzabad District to the east and Aqcha District to the south. In 2006, the population was 34,200. The district center is the village of Mardyan, located in the central part of the district.
“Mardyan District” enters the record as district of Faryab Province, Afghanistan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mardyan, District and district can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q368189. Authority coordinates are 37.052, 66.329. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mardyan District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.