Ghōrmāch

Ghormach lies in the northern part of Badghis, among the hills and valleys west of the Murghab country. The district forms part of the transition from the mountains of western Afghanistan to the more open country toward the desert. Badghis was long known for its pistachio woods: the fourteenth-century writer Hamdallah Mustawfi described gatherings of people who collected the nuts and sold them in neighbouring districts. The Murghab valley provides a distinct route through this otherwise broken terrain.