page_title: Jowzjan Province
section_title: Geography and demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Jowzjan Province / Geography and demographics
caption_attribution_description: Map of the districts of Jowzjan province of Afghanistan. Created by Rarelibra 19:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC) for public domain use, using MapInfo Professional v8.5 and various mapping resources.
context_page_description: Jowzjan, sometimes spelled as Jawzjan or Jozjan, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the country bordering neighboring Turkmenistan. The province is divided into 11 districts and contains hundreds of villages. It has a population of about 512,100, which is multi-ethnic and mostly agriculturalists. Sheberghan is the capital of Jozjan province.
context_section_description: Jozjan is situated in the northern part of Afghanistan, bordering Turkmenistan in the north, Balkh province in the east, Sar-e Pol province in the south and Faryab province in the west. Jozjan province covers an area of 10,326 km². More than one quarter of the province is mountainous or semi mountainous terrain (29.4%), while more than two thirds of the area is made up of flat land (68.9%). It is one of the provinces known to contain petroleum and natural gas. Mining and agriculture are the main industries.
  The population of Jozjan province is about 512,100, who are multi-ethnic and mostly farmers. Occasional ethnic violence is reported in the area, most recently in 2002.
  39.5% of the population speak Uzbek, 28.7% speak Turkmen, 17.2% speak Pashto, 12.1% speak Dari Persian and 2.5% speaks other languages.
caption: Districts of Jozjan.
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