1) Valley of Afghanistan 
Shighnan (also Shignan, Shugnan, Shughnan, Khughnan in the local language) (شغنان) is an historic region whose name today may also refer to a town and a district in Badakhshan Province in the mountainous northeast of Afghanistan and also a district in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan. The administrative center of the Shighna...