Sistan

Sistān (Persian: سیستان), also known as Sakastān (Persian: سَكاستان "the land of the Saka") and Sijistan, is a historical region in present-day south-western Afghanistan and south-eastern Iran. Largely desert, the region is bisected by the Helmand River, the largest river in Afghanistan, which empties into the Hamun Lake that forms part of the border between Iran and Afghanistan.

This article is about the region in Asia. For the province of Iran, see Sistan and Baluchestan province. For other places with this name, see Sistan (disambiguation).
"Sakastan" redirects here. For the province in the Sasanian Empire, see Sakastan (Sasanian province).
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Asbad (windmills) in Sistan, Iran
Map of Sistan (labelled Sakastan) in c. 100 BC.
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