Shighnan District
Shighnan District (Persian: شهرستان سغنان)-Tajik: Ноҳияи Шиғнони) is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan Province in eastern Afghanistan. It is part of the history region of Shighnan that is today divided between Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
The district borders the North East with River Panj and 
Tajikistan, of the West with Districts Maimay, West-South with Raghistan, and of the South with Kohistan, Arghanj Khwa, Shuhada, And South-East Ishkashim.
Demography
Khowar, Tajiks, Khoshey, Pamiris are the major ethnic groups. Pashto and Persian are also spoken.
Villages and places it
This District has a population of 27,750
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Shighnan
Shighnan (also Shignan, Shugnan, Shughnan, Khughnan in the local language) (Persian: شغنان) is an historic region whose name today may also refer to a town and a district in Badakhshan Province in the mountainous northeast of Afghanistan and also a district in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan. The administrative center of the Shighnan District of Afghanistan is called Qaleh Barpanjeh (قلعه برپنجه). The administrative center of the Shughnon District of Tajikistan is called Khorogh.
The Afghan Rushan (Rushan is also a separate district in Tajikistan) falls under the administrative rule of Shughnan district, and is referred to as Rushan sub-district (i.e. Rushan Alaqadari). There are about ten sizable and many more smaller villages in the Shughnan district of Afghanistan. These villages include, south to north, Darmarakht, Wiyod, Wiroodhj, Bashor, Vuzh-Pidrudh, Dhishahr, Shidwood, and Tsaghnod. Note; the village names are given as they appear in the local language. Population of the Afghan district totals approximately 24,000 residents. Some of the bigger villages in the Tajik side of Shughnan include, south to north, Darmarakht, Porshnev, Buni, Sokhcharv, and Rosht Qala.
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