page_title: Hazarajat
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Hazarajat / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Popular Route through Mountains of Bamiyan.
context_page_description: Hazārajāt is a mountainous region in the central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Koh-i-Baba mountains in the western extremities of the Hindu Kush. The word Hazara usually ends with the Persian letter [he] "Hazareh" or "Hazarah", which the Persian speakers often do not pronounce like Shahnameh or Shahnama.
  It is the homeland of the Hazara people who make up the majority of its population. "Hazārajāt denotes an ethnic and religious zone." Hazarajat is primarily made up of the provinces of Bamyan, Daykundi, Ghor and parts of Ghazni, Urozgan, Parwan and Maidan Wardak. The most populous towns in Hazarajat are Bamyan, Yakawlang, Nili, Lal wa Sarjangal, Sang-e-Masha, Gizab and Behsud. The Kabul, Farah, Hari, Murghab, Balkh and Kunduz rivers originate from Hazarajat.
  The name "Hazarajat" first appears in the 16th-century book Baburnama, written by Mughal Emperor Babur. When the famous geographer Ibn Battuta arrived in Khurasan in 1333, he traveled across the country but did not record any place by the name of Hazarajat.
context_section_description: However, the term Gharjistan "land of mountain" is according to Bundahishn by Ferdinand Justi (1868) in Middle Persian or Pahlavi, Gargistan (land of mountains) and Gar گار (pronounced Gaar) means mountain caves. Ferdowsi wrote several times in the geography of Shahnameh of Gharchagan (Persian: غرچگان‎) and Garchestan (Persian: گرچستان‎)
caption: A popular route through the mountains of Bamyan
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