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Urgun اورګون | |
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District | |
 Urgun district within the province of Paktika. | |
  Urgun Location in Afghanistan | |
| Coordinates:32°54′2.160″N69°09′24.840″E / 32.90060000°N 69.15690000°E /32.90060000; 69.15690000 | |
| Country |  Afghanistan |
| Province | Paktika |
| Capital | Urgun |
| Time zone | UTC+4:30 |
Urgun (Pashto:اورګون ولسوالۍ,Persian:ولسوالی اورگون) is a district of the remotePaktika Province inAfghanistan.
The administrative seat of this district is the like-named town ofUrgun, also known asLoy Urgun, meaning "Greater Urgun".
Urgun town used to be the provincial capital until it was replaced bySharana in the 1970s due to its proximity to the main highway, connecting it toKabul,Ghazni, andKandahar.
TheSiege of Urgun took place between 1983 and 1984.
On October 17, 2025, in the village of Khandaro, thePakistan Air Force killed 17 Afghan civilians, including three cricket players, and injured 16 more Afghans.[1][2]
The largest tribe in Urgun are theTajik formuli,[3] Other tribes include theKharoti,Sulaimankhel, andWazir.[4] There are alsoUzbeks andSayed People in smaller numbers.
Like many place names inAfghanistan, Urgun can be spelled a number of different ways. "Urgon", "Orgun" and "Orgon", however, remain the most popular alternative spellings on maps and official documents.
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