Sangin(population 14 000) is a town in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.It is located on in the valley of the Helmand River at 888 m altitude,95 km to the North of Lashkargah. Sangin is notorious as one of the central locations of the opium trade in the south of Afghanistan, and is also a town that has traditionally supported the Talibanhttp://www.pa-chouvy.org/JIR3.htm. Sangin also houses the main bazaar for Sangin District.

An official trip to the capital. Daimyo of outlying fiefdoms were required to spend one year in three in Edo, allowing the shogun to keep them under tight control.