SHEBERGHAN

also spelled Shebirghan, town, northern Afghanistan. Sheberghan is situated 80 miles (130 km) west of Mazar-e Sharif, along the banks of the Safid River. It is surrounded by irrigated agricultural land, and it lies on a main east-west road through northern Afghanistan. Sheberghan was once the capital of an independent Uzbek khanate that was allotted to Afghanistan by the 1873 Anglo-Russian border agreement. Pop. (1988 est.) 22,000.