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Kabul

Kabul is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, situated in the east of the country. The capital of the province is city, which is 's capital and largest city.
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  • Type: State with 5,390,000 residents
  • Description: province of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Kābol”, “Kabul Province”, “Velāyat-e Kābol”, “Velāyat-e Kābul”, and “Wilayat-e Kabul”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pul-e-Charkhi Prison.

Prison
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
, also known as the Afghan National Detention Facility, is a maximum-security prison located next to the Ahmad Shah Baba Mina neighborhood in the eastern part of , .

Kabul

Latitude
34.5° or 34° 30′ north
Longitude
69.4167° or 69° 25′ east
Population
5,390,000
Elevation
1,908 metres (6,260 feet)
Open location code
8J6FGC28+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1732058641
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1138957
Wiki­data ID
Q188933
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kabul” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ولاية كابل”
  • Arabic: “ولاية كابول”
  • Arabic: “ولايه كابول”
  • Armenian: “Քաբուլ”
  • Asturian: “Kabul”
  • Asturian: “Provincia de Kabul”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kabil vilayəti”
  • Basque: “Kabul probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Кабул”
  • Bengali: “কাবুল প্রদেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Кабул”
  • Catalan: “província de Kabul”
  • Catalan: “Província de Kabul”
  • Cebuano: “Wilāyat-e Kābul”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای کابول”
  • Chinese: “Kabul Séng”
  • Chinese: “喀布尔省/喀布爾省”
  • Chinese: “喀布尔省”
  • Chinese: “喀布爾省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kabil (vilâyet)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kabil”
  • Czech: “Kábul”
  • Danish: “Kabul”
  • Dutch: “Kaboel”
  • Dutch: “Kabul”
  • Dutch: “Kābul”
  • Esperanto: “Kabulo”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Kabul”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Kabul”
  • Esperanto: “provinco Kabulo”
  • Estonian: “Kabuli provints”
  • Finnish: “Kabulin maakunta”
  • French: “Kaboul”
  • French: “Province de Kaboul”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Kabul”
  • Georgian: “ქაბულის პროვინცია”
  • German: “AF-KAB”
  • German: “Kabul”
  • German: “Provinz Kabul”
  • German: “Wilaya Kabul”
  • Greek: “Καμπούλ”
  • Gujarati: “કાબુલ પ્રાંત”
  • Hebrew: “קאבול”
  • Hindi: “काबुल प्रांत”
  • Hindi: “काबुल प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “काबुल”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Kabul”
  • Irish: “Cabúl”
  • Italian: “Kabul”
  • Italian: “provincia di Kabul”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Kabul”
  • Japanese: “カーブル州”
  • Japanese: “カブール州”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಬುಲ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Korean: “카불 주”
  • Korean: “카불주”
  • Latvian: “Kabulas province”
  • Latvian: “Kabulas vilajets”
  • Lithuanian: “Kabulo provincija”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Kabul”
  • Marathi: “काबुल प्रांत”
  • Mazanderani: “کابل ولایت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kabul Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Provinsi Kabul”
  • Mongolian: “Кабул аймаг”
  • Mongolian: “Кабул муж”
  • Newari: “काबुल प्रदेश”
  • Newari: “काबुल प्रान्त, अफगानिस्तान”
  • Newari: “काबुल प्रान्त”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون کابل”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kabul”
  • Norwegian: “Kabul”
  • Ossetian: “Кабул (провинци)”
  • Ossetian: “Кабул”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਬਲ”
  • Persian: “استان کابل”
  • Persian: “شهر کابل”
  • Persian: “ولایت کابل”
  • Polish: “Kabul”
  • Portuguese: “Cabul”
  • Portuguese: “Kabul”
  • Pushto: “د کابل ولايت”
  • Pushto: “کابل ولايت”
  • Romanian: “provincia Kabul”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Kabul”
  • Russian: “Кабул”
  • Scots: “Kabul Province”
  • Serbian: “Кабул”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Кабул”
  • Sindhi: “ڪابل صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “කාබුල් පළාත”
  • Slovak: “Kábul”
  • Slovenian: “AF-KAB”
  • Slovenian: “Kabul”
  • Slovenian: “Provinca Kabul”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کابل ویلایت”
  • Spanish: “Kabul”
  • Spanish: “Kābul”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Kabul”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Kabul”
  • Swedish: “Kabul”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Kabul”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Kobul”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Кобул”
  • Tamil: “காபுல் மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “காபூல் மாகாணம்”
  • Telugu: “కాబూల్ ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Telugu: “కాబూల్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
  • Thai: “คาบูล”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดคาบูล”
  • Turkish: “Kabil Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Kâbil Vilayeti”
  • Turkish: “Kâbil”
  • Turkmen: “Kabul welaýaty”
  • Uighur: “كابۇل ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Кабул”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ کابل”
  • Uzbek: “Kobul viloyati”
  • Vietnamese: “Kabul”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Kabul”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kabul”
  • Welsh: “Kabul”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ کابل”
  • Wu Chinese: “喀布尔省”
  • Yue Chinese: “喀布爾省”

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