Jalālābād (English spelling)

Japanese: ジャラーラーバード（英語表記）Jalālābād

Nangarhar is the capital of Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan. It is located 177 km east-southeast of Kabul, the capital, on the right bank of the Kabul River. It is a key transportation and trade point on the road from Peshawar in Pakistan to Kabul via the Khyber Pass. It was built in 1560 by Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire, and became part of Afghanistan in 1834. It is a strategic point controlling the Laghman and Konar valleys, and serves as a military garrison and has an airfield. It is surrounded by vast irrigated plains, and is a distribution center for fruits, almonds, rice, and other grains, and also has a sugar factory. Modernization is underway, with water facilities and road paving. Most of the inhabitants are the Patan ethnic group. Population: 68,100 (1988 estimate).

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Japanese:

アフガニスタン東部，ナンガルハール州の州都。首都カブールの東南東 177km，カブール川右岸に位置する。パキスタンのペシャワルからカイバー峠を経てカブールにいたる街道上にあり，交通，貿易の要衝。ムガル帝国のアクバル大帝によって 1560年に建設され，1834年アフガニスタン領となった。ラグマーン渓谷，コナル渓谷を押える戦略的要衝で，軍隊の駐屯地となっており，飛行場もある。周辺に広大な灌漑平野を控え，果物，アーモンド，米や穀物などを集散，製糖工場などもある。水道施設や道路舗装など近代化が進んでいる。住民の多くはパターン族。人口6万 8100 (1988推計) 。

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