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Kapisa

Kapisa is the smallest of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country. It has an estimated population of 523,201 people and an area of 1,842 km2, making it the most densely populated province apart from .
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  • Type: State with 497,000 residents
  • Description: province of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Kapisa Province”, “Kapissa Province”, “Velāyat-e Kāpīsā”, and “Wilayat-e Kapisa”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alasay.

Town
The village of is the center of in Kapisa Province, . It is located on at 1672 m altitude. The Battle of , codenamed Operation Dinner Out, was a military operation in which was carried out by French troops and the Afghan National Army between 14 and 23 March 2009.

Kapisa

Latitude
34.9056° or 34° 54′ 20″ north
Longitude
69.7417° or 69° 44′ 30″ east
Population
497,000
Elevation
1,746 metres (5,728 feet)
Open location code
8J6FWP4R+6M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1732058689
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1138255
Wiki­data ID
Q173816
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kapisa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ولاية كابيسا”
  • Arabic: “ولايه كابيسا”
  • Asturian: “Kapisa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kapisa vilayəti”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kapisa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qapisa”
  • Basque: “Kapisa probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Капіса”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Капіса”
  • Bengali: “কপিসা প্রদেশ”
  • Bengali: “কাপিসা প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Каписа”
  • Catalan: “província de Kapisa”
  • Catalan: “Província de Kapisa”
  • Cebuano: “Wilāyat-e Kāpīsā”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای کاپیسا”
  • Chinese: “Kapisa Séng”
  • Chinese: “卡比萨省/卡比薩省”
  • Chinese: “卡比萨省”
  • Chinese: “卡比薩省”
  • Chinese: “卡皮沙省”
  • Chinese: “卡皮萨省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kapisa”
  • Czech: “Kápísá”
  • Danish: “Kapisa”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kapisa”
  • Dutch: “Kapisa”
  • Esperanto: “Kapisa”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Kapisa”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Kapisa”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Kapiso”
  • Estonian: “Kapisa provints”
  • Estonian: “Kāpīsā provints”
  • Estonian: “Kapisa”
  • Estonian: “Kāpīsā”
  • Finnish: “Kapisan maakunta”
  • French: “Kapisa”
  • French: “Kapissa”
  • French: “Kâpissâ”
  • French: “Kâpîssâ”
  • French: “Province de Kapisa”
  • Georgian: “კაპისას პროვინცია”
  • Georgian: “კაპისის პროვინცია”
  • German: “AF-KAP”
  • German: “Kapisa”
  • Greek: “Καπίσα”
  • Gujarati: “કપિસા”
  • Hebrew: “כאפיסא”
  • Hindi: “क़पिसा”
  • Hindi: “कापीसा प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “कापीसा”
  • Hungarian: “Kápiszá”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Kapisa”
  • Italian: “Kapisa”
  • Japanese: “カーピーサー州”
  • Kannada: “ಕಪಿಸಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Каписа”
  • Korean: “카피사 주”
  • Korean: “카피사주”
  • Latvian: “Kapisa”
  • Latvian: “Kāpīsa”
  • Lithuanian: “Kapisos provincija”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Kapisa”
  • Marathi: “कपिसा”
  • Mazanderani: “کاپیسا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kapisa Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Provinsi Kapisa”
  • Mongolian: “Каписа аймаг”
  • Mongolian: “Каписа муж”
  • Newari: “कापैसा प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान”
  • Newari: “कापैसा प्रान्त”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون کاپیسا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapisa”
  • Norwegian: “Kapisa”
  • Ossetian: “Каписæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਪਿਸਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਪੀਸਾ”
  • Persian: “استان کاپیسا”
  • Persian: “کاپیسا”
  • Persian: “کاپیسی”
  • Persian: “ولایت قندهار”
  • Persian: “ولایت کاپیسا”
  • Polish: “Kapisa”
  • Portuguese: “Capisa”
  • Portuguese: “Kapisa”
  • Portuguese: “Kapisha”
  • Pushto: “د کاپيسا ولايت”
  • Pushto: “کاپيسا ولايت”
  • Pushto: “کاپیسا”
  • Romanian: “provincia Kapisa”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Kapisa”
  • Russian: “Каписа”
  • Scots: “Kapisa Province”
  • Serbian: “Provincija Kapisa”
  • Serbian: “Каписа”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Каписа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kapisa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kapiška pokrajina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Provincija Kapisa”
  • Sindhi: “ڪاپيسا صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “කපිසා”
  • Slovenian: “AF-KAP”
  • Slovenian: “Kapisa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاپیسا ویلایت”
  • Spanish: “Kapisa”
  • Spanish: “Kāpīsā”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Kapisa”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Kapisā”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Kapīsa”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Kapīsā”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Kāpisā”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Kāpīsā”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Kapisa”
  • Swedish: “Kapisa”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Kapisa”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Kopiso”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Кописо”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Копӣсо”
  • Tamil: “கபிசா மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “கபீஸா”
  • Telugu: “కాపిసా”
  • Thai: “คาปิซา”
  • Turkish: “Kapisa Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Kapisa”
  • Uighur: “كاپىسا ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Капіса”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ کاپیسا”
  • Uzbek: “Kapisa viloyati”
  • Vietnamese: “Kapisa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapisa”
  • Welsh: “Kapisa”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ کاپیسا”
  • Western Panjabi: “کاپیسا”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡比萨省”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡皮沙省”

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