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Afghanistan is a landlocked mountainous country located on the Iranian Plateau, [6] at the crossroads of Central Asia [7] [8] and South Asia. [9] [10] The country is the 40th largest in the world in size.
The division of Earth by the Equator and the prime meridian Map roughly depicting the Eastern and Western hemispheres. In geography and cartography, hemispheres of Earth are any division of the globe into two equal halves (hemispheres), typically divided into northern and southern halves by the Equator and into western and eastern halves by the Prime meridian.
Both philosophers theorized the Earth divided into three types of climatic zones based on their distance from the equator. Like Parmeneides, thinking that the area near the equator was too hot for habitation, Aristotle dubbed the region around the equator (from 23.5° N to 23.5° S) the "Torrid Zone."
The terms "Global North" and "Global South" are not strictly geographical, and are not "an image of the world divided by the equator, separating richer countries from their poorer counterparts." [4] Rather, geography should be more readily understood as economic and migratory, in the "wider context of globalization or global capitalism." [4]
Afghanistan is underlain by Precambrian metamorphic rocks, which form high regions in the center of the country and the Hindu Kush. The Central Afghan Swell, stretching from the Sabzak Pass near Herat in the west to the Little Pamir in the northeast, is the northernmost structural high, encompassing metamorphic rocks. The swell is connected to ...
Afghanistan, [e] officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, [f] is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, [g] Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east.
“Make no mistake, Afghanistan has not been ignored by this government,” Dar said. Read More: Afghanistan, One Year On From U.S. Withdrawal But border tensions are “too contentious and ...
Near the equator, the columns of UTM zone 1 have the letters A–H, the columns of UTM zone 2 have the letters J–R (omitting O), and the columns of UTM zone 3 have the letters S–Z. At zone 4, the column letters start over from A, and so on around the world. For the row letters, there are actually two alternative lettering schemes within MGRS: