Shinkay District

Shinkay District is a district of Zabul province in southern Afghanistan.

Demographics

Shinkay has a population of about 22,900 as of 2013. It contains the town of Ẕāmi Kalay. The district is mostly populated by the Tokhi tribe of Ghilji Pashtuns.

See also

• Districts of Afghanistan
• Wallace Fard Muhammad, the enigmatic founder of the Nation of Islam; one of the multiple possible people associated with him claimed on a World War I draft card to be a native of "Shinka" in Afghanistan

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