Nuristan Province

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Nuristan (Pashto; Dari: نورستان, lit. 'Land of Light'), also spelled as Nurestan, Nooristan or Nuriston (Katë: نورستان), and historically known as Kafiristan (Pashto, Dari: کافرستان lit. 'Land of Infidels') until 1896, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. It is divided into seven districts and is Afghanistan's least populous province, with a population of around 167,000. Parun serves as the provincial capital. Nuristan is bordered on the south by Laghman and Kunar provinces, on the north by Badakhshan Province, on the west by Panjshir Province, and on the east by Chitral District of Pakistan. The local Nuristani people predominantly inhabit the province; their Nuristani languages form a third branch of Indo-Iranian languages alongside Iranian and Indo-Aryan. Their origin and ethnogenesis has been long a subject of scholarly dispute with a range of theories being presented. Until the last decade of 19th century, the region, then called Kafiristan...

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