Border With Pakistan
Helmand has a southern border with the Balochistan province of Pakistan. Southern Helmand has an ancient relationship with the Nok Kundi district of Pakistan that it adjoins. Together, this region was known in Bactrian as "Dzaranga" ("water land") (modern Pashto: Dzaranda, "watermill"/"waterland") which was hellenized by the Greeks into Drangiana. It was an Iranic country known to the Persians as Zaranka, or a place that produces water. Even today, the cultural ties between Helmand Afghanistan and Nok Kundi Pakistan are strong.
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