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Afghanistan
The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is a landlocked country in South-Central Asia. It is variously described as being located within Central Asia, South Asia, or the Middle East. It is bordered by Iran in the west, Pakistan in the south and east, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north...
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Amu Darya
The Amu Darya (from Persian: آمودریا - Āmūdaryā, lit. "Amu River"), in antiquity known as Oxus (Ὦξος) to Greeks and Romans or Vaksu to Indo-Aryans, is a major river in Central Asia. It is formed by the junction of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers. In...
Herat
Herāt (Persian: هرات), classically called the Aria, is a major city in western Afghanistan, in the province also known as Herāt. It is situated in the valley of the Hari River, which flows from the mountains of central Afghanistan to the Karakum...
Kabul
Kabul (Pashto/Persian: کابل Kābul; IPA: [kɑːˈbol]; archaic Caubul), is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, with a population of over 2.5 million, and is located in the province of Greater Kabul. The exact number cannot be determined but the...
Kandahar
Kandahār or Qandahār (Pashto/Persian: کندهار or قندهار) is the second largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of about 468,200. It is the capital of Kandahar province, located in the south of the country at about 1,005 m (3,297 feet) above...
Mazar-e Sharif
Mazār-e Sharīf or Mazāri Sharīf (Persian: مزارِ شریف) is the fourth largest city of Afghanistan, with population of 300,600 people (2006 estimate). It is the capital of Balkh province and is linked by roads to Kabul in the south-east, Herat to the...
Hindu Kush
The Hindu Kush is a 500-mile mountain range stretching between north-western Pakistan and eastern and central Afghanistan. The highest point in the Hindu Kush is Tirich Mir (7,708 m or 25,289 ft) in the Chitral region of the North-West Frontier...
Hari Rud
The Hari River (Persian: Rudkhaneh-ye Hari Rud sometimes Harirud) is a river flowing 1100 kilometers from the mountains of central Afghanistan to Turkmenistan, where it disappears in the Kara-Kum desert. Rud means "river" in Persian.
The river...
Singesar
Singesar (population 2400) is a village near Kandahar, Afghanistan. It is the birthplace of Taliban leader Amir al-Momineen (commander of the faithful) Mullah Omar.
Helmand River
The Helmand River (also spelled Helmend, Helmund, Hirmand; Pashto/Persian: هیرمند, هلمند Hīrmand, Helmand, Latin: Erymandrus) is the longest river in Afghanistan and the primarily watershed for the endorheic Sistan Basin.
The Helmand river stretches...
Gardez
Gardēz (Persian: گردیز, Pashto: ګردېز) is the capital of the Paktiā province of Afghanistan. The population of the city was put at ca. 10,000 in the 1979 census, but is estimated to be 70,000 in 2008.
Gardēz is located at 2,300m above sea-level and...
Kunduz
Kunduz (Pashto: کندز; Persian: قندوز) also known as Kundûz, Qonduz, Qondûz, Konduz, Kondûz, Kondoz, or Qhunduz is a city in northern Afghanistan, the capital of Kunduz Province. It is linked by highways with Mazari Sharif to the west, Kabul to the...
Badghis Province
Bādghīs (Persian/Pashto: بادغیس Lap of Wind) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is located in northwestern Afghanistan, between the Murghab and Hari rivers, extending as far northward as the edge of the desert of Sarakhs. It...
Area:
- 20,591 km² (7950.2 mi² )
Herat Province
Herat (Pashto/Persian: هرات) is one the 34 Provinces of Afghanistan; together with Badghis, Farah, and Ghor provinces, it makes up the north-western region of the country. Its primary city and administrative capital is also named Herat.
The province...
Area:
- 54,778 km² (21150 mi² )
Balkh
Balkh (Persian: بلخ - Balḫ, Old Persian: 𐎲𐎾𐎧; Ancient Greek: Baktra), was an ancient city and centre of Zoroastrianism in what is now northern Afghanistan. Today it is a small town in the province of Balkh, about 20 kilometers northwest of the...
Zabul Province
Zabul (Pashto: زابل) (Persian: زابل) is a historic province of Afghanistan. Zabul became an independent province from neighbouring Kandahar in 1963, with Qalat being named the provincial capital. It should not be confused with the small city Zabol,...
Area:
- 17,343 km² (6696.2 mi² )
Ghazni
For the Province of Ghazni see Ghazni Province
Ghazni City (Persian: غزنی - Ġaznī; historically known as غزنین / Ġaznīn and غزنه / Ġazna) is a city in central Afghanistan, with an approximate population of 141,000 people. It is the capital of Ghazni...
Khost
Khost or Khowst (Pashto: خوست - Xost) is a city in eastern Afghanistan. It is the capital of Khost province, which is a mountainous region near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan. The population of Khost province is over one million people.
During...
Bagram
Bagram, Bagrām or Begram (ancient Alexandria of the Caucasus, medieval Kapisa) was an ancient city located at the junction of the Ghorband and Panjshir valleys, near today's city of Charikar, Afghanistan. Bagram is located about 60 kilometers north...
Kunduz Province
Kunduz (Pashto/Persian: كندز) is one of the provinces of Afghanistan, centered on the city of Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, with an area of 8,040 km square, and a population of about 820,000. Eng. Mohammad Omar is currently governor of Kunduz...
Area:
- 8,040 km² (3104 mi² )
Baghlan Province
Baghlan (Persian/Pashto: بغلان Baġlān) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Puli Khumri, but its name comes from the other major town in the province, Baghlan. The ruins of a...
Area:
- 21,112 km² (8151.4 mi² )
Balkh Province
Balkh (Persian / Pashto: بلخ) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country and its name derives from the ancient city of Balkh, near the modern town. Its capital is Mazar-e Sharif.
Balkh Province is situated...
Area:
- 17,249 km² (6659.9 mi² )
Bamiyan Province
Bamyan Province (Persian: بامیان) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the centre of the country. Its capital is also called Bamyan. The majority of the population are Hazaras, with 16% Sadat, 15% Tajiks, and Pashtuns and...
Area:
- 14,175 km² (5473 mi² )
Farah Province
Farah (Persian: فراه) (Pashto: فراه) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the southwest of the country. Its capital is Farah. Farah is a spacious and sparsely populated province that lies on the Iranian border. The population...
Area:
- 48,471 km² (18715 mi² )
Faryab Province
Fāryāb (Persian: فارياب) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Maymana. The majority of the population is Uzbek.
Faryab is a Persian word meaning "irrigated land". The modern province...
Area:
- 20,293 km² (7835.2 mi² )
Ghazni Province
Ghazni (Pashto: غزني) (Persian: غزنی) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the east of the country. Its capital is Ghazni City. The province lies on the important Kabul to Kandahar road, and has historically functioned as an...
Area:
- 22,915 km² (8847.5 mi² )
Ghowr Province
Ghōr (Persian: غور), also spelled Ghowr or Ghur, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is located in central Afghanistan, towards the north-west. The capital of Ghor is Chaghcharan. The name "Ghor" is a cognate to Avestan gairi-,...
Area:
- 36,479 km² (14085 mi² )
Helmand Province
Helmand (Pashto / Persian: هلمند) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the southwest of the country. Its capital is Lashkar Gah. The Helmand River flows through the mainly desert region, providing water for irrigation.
Helmand is the...
Area:
- 58,584 km² (22619 mi² )
Jowzjan Province
Jowzjān or Jōzjān (Persian: جوزجان) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Sheberghan.
The population of the province was around 426,987 people. The major ethnic groups living in Jowzjan...
Area:
- 11,798 km² (4555.2 mi² )
Kabul Province
Kābul (Pashto/Persian: کابل - Kābəl), situated in the east of the country, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. The capital of the province is Kabul City, which is also the nation's capital. The current governor of Kabul province is...
Area:
- 4,462 km² (1723 mi² )
Kandahar Province
Kandahar or Qandahar (Pashto: کندھار or قندهار) is one of the largest of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is located in southern Afghanistan, between Helmand, Oruzgan and Zabul provinces. Its capital is the city of Kandahar, which is...
Area:
- 54,022 km² (20858 mi² )
Kapisa Province
Kapisa (Persian/Pashto: کاپيسا) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north-east of the country. Its capital is Mahmud-i-Raqi, and other districts include Kohistan, Nijrab and Tagab. The population of Kapisa is estimated to be 364...
Area:
- 1,842 km² (711.2 mi² )
Khost Province
Khost (Pashto: خوست) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the east of the country. Khost province used to be part of Paktia province in the past. Its capital is Khost City, which was the first Afghan city to be liberated from...
Area:
- 4,152 km² (1603 mi² )
Laghman Province
Laghman (Pashto / Persian: لغمان – Laγmān) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern portion of Afghanistan, the capital is Mihtarlam. The province is composed of several districts including: Alingar, Alishang,...
Area:
- 3,843 km² (1484 mi² )
Lowgar Province
Logar (Pashto: لوګر, Persian: لوگَر) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. The word of Logar is built from two Pashto words: Loy (لوى "great") and Ghar (غر "mountain"). It is located in the eastern zone, southeast of Kabul, and the geography of...
Area:
- 3,880 km² (1498 mi² )
Nangarhar Province
Nangarhar (Pashto: ننګرهار) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan in the east of the country. Its capital is the city of Jalalabad. The population of the province is 1,334,000, most of which are ethnic Pashtuns.
Once a major center of...
Area:
- 7,727 km² (2983 mi² )
Nimruz Province
Nimruz (Balochi/Pashto/Persian: نیمروز ) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, in the south-west of the country on the borders of Iran and Pakistan. The name Nimruz means "mid-day" in Persian. Nimruz covers 41,000 km² and has a...
Area:
- 41,005 km² (15832 mi² )
Nurestan Province
Nuristān (نورستان), also spelled Nurestān or Nooristan, is a region in Afghanistan embedded in the south of the Hindu Kush valleys. Its administrative center is Parun. It was formerly known as Kafiristan (land of the unbelievers) until they...
Orūzgān Province
Orūzgān or Urōzgān (Pashto: اروزګان), also spelled Uruzgan or Rōzgān (Pashto: روزګان), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the center of the country, though the area is culturally and tribally linked to Kandahar in the south...
Area:
- 22,696 km² (8763 mi² )
Paktia Province
Paktia (Pashto: پکتيا - Paktyā) (Persian: پکتيا - Paktyā) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, in the east of the country. Its capital is Gardez. The population is predominantly Pashtun.
Najibullah Ahmadzai, the former president of...
Area:
- 6,432 km² (2483 mi² )
Parvān Province
Parwān (Persian/Pashto: پروان), also spelled Parvān, once also the name of an ancient town in the Hindu Kush mountains, is today an administrative province in northern Afghanistan, directly north of Kabul Province. Its capital is Charikar and it was...
Area:
- 5,974 km² (2307 mi² )
Samangan Province
Samangan (Persian: سمنگان) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. The province covers 6,425 square miles (16,640 km) and has a population of approximately 406,000 people.
Its capital Samangan is known for its ancient ruins including...
Area:
- 11,262 km² (4348.3 mi² )
Sar-e Pol Province
Sar-e Pol, also spelled Sari Pul (Persian: سر پل), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. Its capital is the city of Sar-e Pol. Dari Persian is the most dominant language in the province.
Uzbeks are...
Takhar Province
Takhār (Persian: تخار) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It was established in 1964 when Qataghan Province was divided into three provinces: Baghlan, Kunduz and Takhar. It is in the north-east of the country. Its capital is Taloqan...
Area:
- 12,333 km² (4761.8 mi² )
Wardak Province
Wardag Province (Pashto: وردګ Persian: وردک ; also spelled: Wardak) is one of thirty four provinces of Afghanistan located in the central east region of Afghanistan. It has a population of approximately 540,100. The capital of Wardag province is...
Area:
- 8,938 km² (3451 mi² )
Paktika Province
Paktika (Pashto: پکتیکا) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the south-east of the country. Most of the population is Pashtun. Its capital is Sharan.
As one of the most remote provinces in Afghanistan, and in an area that saw much...
Area:
- 19,482 km² (7522 mi² )
Siruzkoh
Siruzkoh, a (possibly mythical) city destroyed in 1222 by Genghis Khan, is thought to be the former capital of Afghanistan. Its existence and location have been in dispute, although the international expedition or archelogists, geographs and writers...
Kabul International Airport
Kabul International Airport (IATA: KBL, ICAO: OAKB),(Pashto:دکابل نړیوال هوایی ډګر), (Persian: میدان بین المللی کابل), also known as Khwaja Rawash Airport, is located 16 kilometers (9 miles) from the city center of Kabul, Afghanistan. The airport is...
Pamir Mountains
The Pamir Mountains (Chinese:帕米尔高原; Urdu:سلسلہ کوہ پامیر; Tajik:Кӯҳҳои Помир; Persian:پامیر کوهستان; Uyghur:پامىر ئېگىزلىكى) are a mountain range in Central Asia formed by the junction or knot of the Himalayas, Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, and...
Spin Boldak
Spin Boldak or Spin Buldak, is a town belonging to Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, right next to the Durand Line border with Pakistan. It is linked by a highway with the city of Kandahar to the north and Chaman in Pakistan to the south....
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Dāykondī Province
Daykundi (Persian: دایکندی ) also spelled Daikondi, Dāykondī or Daikundi, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. Daykundi's capital is Nili. It is located about 310 kilometres from Kabul, and falls into the traditionally ethnic Hazara...
Area:
- 8,088 km² (3123 mi² )
Panjshīr Province
Panjshir (Persian: پنجشیر, literally "Five Lions", also spelled as Panjsher) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. Containing the Panjshir Valley, it was established from the Parwan Province in April 13, 2004. Its population is around...
Area:
- 3,610 km² (1394 mi² )
Tirich Mir
Tirich Mir (alternatively Terich Mir and Terichmir) is the highest mountain in the Hindu Kush region, located in NWFP, Pakistan. The mountain was first climbed in 1950 by a Norwegian expedition consisting of Arne Næss, P. Kvernberg, H. Berg, and...
Asadabad
Asadabad or Asad Abad (Pashto: اسدآباد - Asadābād) is a city of Afghanistan, the capital of Kunar Province. It is located at the confluence of the Pech River and Kunar River.
A mountainous region about five miles from the Pakistani border, Asadabad...
Noshaq
Noshaq (or Nowshak) is the highest mountain in Afghanistan and the second highest independent peak of the Hindu Kush after Tirich Mir (7,690 m (25,230 ft)). Noshaq is located in the northeastern corner of the country along the Durand line which...
Badakhshan Province
Badakhshan (Persian: بدخشان - Badakhshān) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, consisting of 28 districts. It is located in the north-east of the country, between the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya. It is part of the Badakhshan region.
Badakshan...
Deh Rawood
Deh Rawood is a town in Deh Rahwod District in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan. It is located 400 kilometres southwest of Kabul. Since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan the area has been noted as a remaining Taliban stronghold. The area is rural with...
