Kabul River

The Kabul River, anciently known as the Kubha and Cophen, is a 700-kilometre-long river that emerges in the Sanglakh Range of the mountains in the northeastern part of , Afghanistan.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  • Also known as: Cabool”, “Cabul”, “Caubul”, “Cophen River”, “Cophes”, “Ḏaṟyā-i-Kābul”, “Daryā-ye Kābol”, “Daryā-ye Kābul”, “Landai”, and “Landai River

Places of Interest

Highlights include Khairabad Kund railway station and Attock Fort.

Railway station
is located in the village of Khairabad, Nowshera district, province, . The station is on the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line.

is a 16th century fortress in , Pakistan. It was built at during the reign of Akbar from 1581 to 1583 under the supervision of Khawaja Shamsuddin to protect the passage of the River Indus.

Railway station
is located in the town of , Attock district, province, . The railway station building is a Victorian structure made of stone masonry and surrounded by the Manglot Mountain Range. is situated 4 km south of Kabul River.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Little Attock and Jehangira.

Village
Attock Khurd is a small town located beside the in the of Punjab Province in Pakistan.

Town
is a town in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. is situated 7 km north of Kabul River.

Kabul River

Latitude
33.90625° or 33° 54′ 23″ north
Longitude
72.22901° or 72° 13′ 44″ east
Elevation
298 metres (978 feet)
Open location code
8J5JW64H+FJ
Geo­Names ID
1138944
Wiki­data ID
Q8515
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Kabul River” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: نهر كابل
  • Arabic: نهر كابول
  • Armenian: Քաբուլ
  • Asturian: Ríu Kabul
  • Basque: Kabul ibaia
  • Belarusian: Кабул
  • Belarusian: Рака Кабул
  • Bengali: কাবুল নদী
  • Bulgarian: Кабул (река)
  • Bulgarian: Кабул
  • Catalan: riu Kabul
  • Catalan: Riu Kabul
  • Cebuano: Kābul River
  • Chinese: 喀布尔河
  • Chuvash: Кабул
  • Czech: Kábul
  • Dutch: Kabul
  • Egyptian Arabic: نهر كابل
  • Esperanto: Kabulo
  • Estonian: Kabuli jõgi
  • Finnish: Kabul
  • French: Kaboul
  • Galician: Río Cabul
  • German: Kabul
  • Greek: Καμπούλ
  • Gujarati: કાબુલ નદી
  • Hebrew: קאבול
  • Hindi: काबुल नदी
  • Hungarian: Kabul-folyó
  • Hungarian: Kabul
  • Inari Sami: Kabuljuuhâ
  • Indonesian: Sungai Kabul
  • Irish: Abhainn Kabul
  • Italian: Kabul
  • Japanese: カーブル川
  • Japanese: カブール川
  • Korean: 카불강
  • Latvian: Kabula (upe)
  • Latvian: Kabula
  • Lithuanian: Kabulas
  • Low German: Kabul
  • Macedonian: Кабул
  • Malay: Cophes
  • Malay: Sungai Cophen
  • Malay: Sungai Kabul
  • Malayalam: കാബൂൾ നദി
  • Marathi: काबुल नदी
  • Mongolian: Кабул гол
  • Northern Sami: Kabuljohka
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Kabul-elva
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Kabulelva
  • Norwegian: Kabul
  • Panjabi: ਕਾਬੁਲ ਨਦੀ
  • Persian: دریای کابل
  • Polish: Kabul
  • Portuguese: Kabal
  • Portuguese: Kabul
  • Portuguese: Rio Cabul
  • Pushto: د کابل سیند
  • Pushto: کابل سيند
  • Romanian: Râul Kabul
  • Russian: Кабул
  • Scots: Kabul River
  • Serbian: Кабул
  • Sindhi: ڪابل درياءَ
  • Sindhi: ڪابل درياهه
  • Sindhi: ڪابل ندي
  • Sindhi: ڪوفرس
  • Sindhi: ڪوفن ندي
  • Skolt Sami: Kabuljokk
  • Slovak: Kábul
  • Slovenian: Kabul (reka)
  • Slovenian: Kabul
  • South Azerbaijani: دریای کابل چایی
  • Spanish: Kabul
  • Spanish: Río Kabul
  • Swedish: Kabulfloden
  • Tajik: Кобул (дарё)
  • Tajik: Кобул
  • Tamil: காபுல் ஆறு
  • Thai: แม่น้ำคาบูล
  • Turkish: Kâbil Nehri
  • Ukrainian: Кабул
  • Urdu: دریائے کابل
  • Uzbek: Kobul
  • Venetian: Fiume Kabul
  • Vietnamese: Sông Kabul
  • Welsh: Afon Kabul
  • Western Panjabi: دریائے خیبر
  • Wu Chinese: 喀布尔河

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