Back নাদ আলী জেলা Bengali/Bangla Nād ‘Alī (distrito sa Nasod nga Afghano) CEB Nad Ali German ولسوالی نادعلی FA Distretto di Nad Ali Italian Daerah Nad Ali Malay Nad Ali (dystrykt) Polish ضلع ناد علی PNB نادعلي ولسوالۍ PS Nad Ali Swedish
Nad Ali
نادعلی | |
|---|---|
District | |
 Students during a lesson at Nad e Ali Central School in Helmand. | |
  Nad Ali | |
| Coordinates: 31°38′N 64°14′E / 31.64°N 64.24°E | |
| Country |  Afghanistan |
| Province | Helmand Province |
| Population (2012)[1] | |
• Total | 88,600 |
Nad Ali or Nad-e Ali is a district in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.[2] Marja is an unincorporated agricultural district in Nad Ali. The area is irrigated by the Helmand and Arghandab Valley Authority (HAVA).[3] A small town of the same name lies 11 km to the west of the Helmand River, at the coordinates shown at the top of the page. The town of Nad-e Ali was built in 1954 as part of the HAVA irrigation project, and was settled by 3,000 predominantly Pashtun families who were given newly arable land.[4]
The village of Shin Kalay has made advances in the education of children that was recognized and published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).
- ^ "Settled Population of Helmand Province" (PDF). Central Statistics Organization. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
- ^ "District Profile" (PDF). UNHCR. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2005. Retrieved 3 August 2006.
- ^ The Helmand Valley Project in Afghanistan: AID Evaluation Special Study No. 18 C. Clapp-Wicek & E. Baldwin, US Agency for International Development, published December 1983 (pdf)
- ^ Dupree, Louis (1997). Afghanistan (2nd ed.). Oxford Pakistan Paperbacks. p. 503. ISBN 978-0-19-577634-8.