User:Saraik

Saraik District
Country   = Afghanistan Time zone = GMT Saraik:+4,5 hours Elevation = 2,005 m Area       =  1,741 km² Population = 23,215 (2003) Province  =   Bamyan Province

Saraik (also known as Saighan, Saighān, Saraik, Sarayek, Sarāyek, Sayghan, Sayghān, Seyghan, or Seyghān) is a district in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan. It has a population of 23,215 (As of 2003). It was created in 2005 from part of Kahmard District, and until 2004 was part of Baghlan Province. Saraik city is the largest town in the district as well as being the administrative center. The district has an area of 1,741 km2. There are sixty-two villages in the district. Tajiks make up 70%, while Hazaras make up 27%. The other 3% is mostly Pashtuns.

Economics
The Da Eman Coal Deposits are located in Sayghan Saraik District, but have yet (As of 2008) to be fully commercially exploited. The majority of economic activity is agriculture: farming in the valleys, mostly wheat, potatoes and barley; and stock, raising mostly sheep, donkeys and goats.

Language
Most people speak Saraiki in this district. In Afghanistan the Hindki speak Kandhari, a dialect of Multani Saraiki. Before the influx of Pathans into the region, the most common spoken dialect in Kandahar was Saraiki, namely the Kandhari or Jataki dialect. Saraiki is also spoken in the Saraik district.

Saraik Prayer Time
Saraik Prayer time

Weather Saraik District
Saraik Weather Bamian Afghanistan

Saraik geographical
The geographical name data for Saraik in Afghanistan,SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division.