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The Kabul River (Urdu: دریائے کابل; Dari: دریای کابل; Pashto: د کابل سیند), the classical Cophen / ˈ k oʊ f eɪ n /, is a 700-kilometre-long (430 mi) river that emerges in the Sanglakh Range of the Hindu Kush mountains in the northeastern part of Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan.
Aerial photograph of Helmand River in Helmand Province Branches of the Kunar River meet in Nangarhar Province Scenic view in western Afghanistan This is a list of rivers that flow wholly or partly in Afghanistan , arranged geographically by river basin .
The Naghlu Dam in Kabul Province of Afghanistan Dams and reservoirs in Afghanistan are used for irrigation, water supply, hydro-electric power generation or a combination of these. [ 1 ] The Afghan government continues to seek technical assistance from neighboring and regional countries to build more dams.
The Naghlu Dam (Pashto: نغلو برېښناکوټ) is a gravity dam on the Kabul River in Surobi District of Kabul Province in Afghanistan. It is located 40 km (25 mi) east of the nation's capital Kabul. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectricity production. The dam supports a power station with a design capacity of 100 MW of ...
The Mahipar Dam is located on the Kabul River next to the Kabul–Jalalabad Road in the western part of the Surobi District in Kabul Province of Afghanistan. [1] [2] [3] It is about 30 km (19 mi) away from the center of Kabul. It is a gravity dam owned and maintained by the country's Ministry of Energy and Water.
The Chitral River, [a] also known in Afghanistan as the Kunar River, [b] is a 480 kilometres (300 mi) long river in northern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. It originates from the Chiantar glacier, located at the border of Gilgit Baltistan and Chitral in Pakistan. At Arandu it enters into Afghanistan, where it is called the Kunar River. [1]
At least 20 people were killed when a boat sank while crossing a river in eastern Afghanistan Saturday morning, a Taliban official said. Quraishi Badlon, provincial director of the information and ...
In contemporary times, Kabul has served as Afghanistan's political, cultural and economical center. [9] Rapid urbanisation has made it the country's primate city and the 76th-largest city in the world. [10] The modern-day city of Kabul is located high in a narrow valley in the Hindu Kush mountain range, and is bounded by the Kabul River.