Maiwand District

is situated in the western part of the Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.

Highway 1 runs through the center of the district and connects two of the major cities in southern Afghanistan, Kandahar and Lashkargah.

To this day a small fort remains from the British presence.

One casualty was Paula Loyd, a member of a Human Terrain System team, who was doused with a flammable liquid and set afire on November 4, 2008, and later died at Brooke Army Medical Center on January 7, 2009.

This Kandahar Province, Afghanistan location article is a stub.

A depiction of Maiwand during the 1878 British operations