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Sistān (Persian: سیستان), also known as Sakastān (Persian: سَكاستان "the land of the Saka ") and Sijistan (Arabic: سِجِستان), is a historical region in present-day south-western Afghanistan, south-eastern Iran and extending across the borders of south-western Pakistan. [2] .
Sistan and Baluchestan Province is one of the driest regions of Iran, with a slight increase in rainfall from east to west, and a rise in humidity in the coastal regions.
Sīstān, extensive border region, eastern Iran and southwestern Afghanistan. Forty percent of its area is in Iran, as well as the majority of its sparse population. The region comprises a large depression some 1,500–1,700 feet (450–520 m) in elevation. Numerous rivers fill a series of lagoons.
Sistan is a geographical region that lies at the southwestern corner of Afghanistan, northwest Pakistan, and eastern Iran, bisected by the Helmand River, the largest watercourse in Afghanistan. Surrounded by deserts, it is a land of extreme heat and cold, relentless winds, and shifting sand dunes.
Sistan and Balochistan Province is chockful of unusual phenomena, one of the strangest being the Gelafshan Mud Volcano near the seaside town of Bandar e Tang.
Feb 11, 2011 · TĀRIḴ-E SISTĀN, an anonymous local history in Persian of the eastern Iranian region of Sistān, the region that straddles the modern Iran-Afghanistan border. It forms a notable example of the flourishing genre of local histories, dealing with towns and provinces, in the pre-modern Iranian lands.
Today Sistan is an impoverished region of the Afghan-Persian borderland, the condition of whose economy and populace appeared excessively forlorn to the few European travellers and officials who visited it or who worked there in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
