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Districts of Khost and surrounding areas. As of 2021, the population of the province is around 950,000 people. [5] [30] Other sources put the number at over a million. [31] The Pashtun people make up 99% of the population, with the remaining 1% being Tajiks and others. [32] Districts of Khost. Districts of Khost:
The set contains 387 "districts" and 34 "provincial center districts" for 412 districts in total. [ 5 ] This article does not correspond with any particular district set; it lacks a number of districts currently recognized by the Afghan government, and some others that are popularly, but not officially, recognized.
[1] [2] This list compares that 398 district set to an earlier one produced by UNDP's AIMS in 1998, which had recognized 32 provinces and 329 districts. [3] The 2005 version included the new provinces of Daikundi and Panjsher, and seventy new districts.
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It borders with Paktia Province to the north, Sabari District to the east, Khost (Matun) District to the south, Nadir Shah Kot District to the southwest and Qalandar District to the west. The population is 36,300 (2006). The district center is the village of Musakhel in the northern part of the district.
During Afghanistan's history it had a number of provinces in it. It started out as just Kabul, Herat, Qandahar, and Balkh but the number of provinces increased and by 1880 the provinces consisted of Balkh, Herat, Qandahar, Ghazni, Jalalabad, and Kabul. [13] Southern Province – dissolved in 1964 to create Paktia Province.
Khost has a population of 511,600 people in 2008. In the province, there are 87,199 households, with an average of eight individuals per home. Rural districts are home to 98 percent of the population. Pashtuns are the province's most populous ethnic group.
Khost wa Fereng or Khost wa Firing (Persian: خوست و فرنگ) is the easternmost district of Baghlan province, Afghanistan in the Hindu Kush mountains. Its capital is Khost wa Fereng . The population of the district was estimated to be around 60,300 in 2011–2012, [ 2 ] of which ethnic Tajiks made up 90% and Hazaras 10% of the total ...