Nok Kundi

Map showing Nok Kundi in Chagai

Nok Kundi ("the blunt point"), is a township and tahsil ii Chagai district in western Pakistan in the province of Balochistan.

Origin of name

Nok Kundi = "the blunt point"

History

This region of western Pakistan, was historically known to these people as Dzaranga ("water producing land"). It was recorded by the Greeks and Hellenized to Drangiana in Greek literature. The original word for this region is Zaranka means ("watermill" or a "spring"). This word occurs in old Balochi and Persian as ("Waterland").

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