Farah Province

Farah Province is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, in the western part of the country on the border with Iran. It is a spacious and sparsely populated province divided into eleven districts, with hundreds of villages and a population of about 563,026 in the source's lead figure (the demographics section gives about 573,146 for 2021). The city of Farah is the provincial capital, and Farah Airport lies beside it. The province covers roughly 48,000 square kilometres, making it the fourth largest in Afghanistan by area but the second least densely populated, and it is bounded by Herat, Ghor, Helmand, Nimroz and Iran. Its economy is overwhelmingly agricultural, with gypsum, lime, uranium ore and copper among its minerals, and its territory was known around 500 BC as Drangiana before passing under the Achaemenids, Alexander, the Sassanids, Arab Muslims, Ghaznavids, Ghurids, Timurids, Safavids, Hotaki and Durrani empires.