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Afghanistan, [ d ] officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, [ e ] is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, [ f ] Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east.
Geography of Afghanistan. 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. Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, located in the Kabul Province.
Map of Afghanistan and surrounding nations, dated 1860. Map of Afghanistan 1839–1863, showing the First Anglo-Afghan war, and unification of Afghanistan by Dost Mohammad Khan King Yaqub Khan with Britain's Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari, 26 May 1879, on the occasion of the signing of the Treaty of Gandamak
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. Turkestan Province – dissolved somewhere between 1929 and 1946.
The districts of Afghanistan, known as wuleswali (Pashto: ولسوالۍ, wuləswāləi; Dari: ولسوالی, wuləswālī), are secondary-level administrative units, one level below provinces. The Afghan government issued its first district map in 1973. [1] It recognized 325 districts, counting wuleswalis (districts), alaqadaries (sub ...
Map of major cities as identified by governmental organizations [1] Kabul is the only city in Afghanistan with over a million residents Herat is the second largest city and is located in western Afghanistan Mazar-i-Sharif is the third largest city and is located in northern Afghanistan Jalalabad , the fifth-largest city, located in eastern ...
7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021. (19 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) First phase: 7 October 2001 – 28 December 2014. Second phase: 1 January 2015 – 30 August 2021 [34][35] Location. Afghanistan [a] Result. Taliban victory [36] Islamic State–Taliban conflict and insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa continues.
Herat. Herāt (/ hɛˈrɑːt /; [4] Pashto, Persian هرات) is an oasis city and the third-largest city in Afghanistan. [5] In 2020, it had an estimated population of 574,276, and serves as the capital of Herat Province, situated south of the Paropamisus Mountains (Selseleh-ye Safēd Kōh) in the fertile valley of the Hari River in the ...