Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. The country shares borders with , , , , , , and the disputed territory.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Kabul and Kandahar.

has been the capital of Afghanistan since about 1776. The city was badly damaged during the various wars since 1979, particularly its western parts.

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is the capital of province, and the largest city in . is also the second largest city in Afghanistan after the capital , and was the first capital of the modern state of Afghanistan in the 18th century.

, also known as Harat or Hirat, and historically known as Haraiva, Horeiva and Hires, is an oasis city and the third-largest city in Afghanistan. In 2020, it had an estimated population of 574,276.

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Explore places such as East Afghanistan and Northeast Afghanistan.

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This section covers the eastern portion of Afghanistan. This region is inhabited by the nationalist Pashtuns, who have cultural links with , and is influenced by ; a historic name for this area is Afghania Province.

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This section covers the Northeastern portion of Afghanistan. The historic region of spanned territory that included parts of northern Afghanistan—plus areas that are now in or .

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This section covers the northwestern portion of Afghanistan. The Northern Alliance held out here when Taliban controlled the rest of Afghanistan. The main ethnic groups are and .

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This article covers the western portion of Afghanistan. This region is inhabitanted by the Farsiwans and the Turkmens. It has cultural links with , but is also influenced by 's Khorasan Province, which used to be the ancient name for the whole region of the Afghan nation.

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This section covers the southern portion of Afghanistan. It covers Farah, Helmand, Kandahar, Nimruz, Uruzgan and Zabul Provinces.

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The is a mountain range, a spur running southwest off the Pamir Knot, which is a large clump of high ground at the western end of the .

Afghanistan

  • Type: Country with 32,700,000 residents
  • Description: country in Central and South Asia
  • Also known as: Affghanistan”, “Affghanisthan”, “Affghaunistan”, “Afghānestān”, “Afghania”, “Afghanisthan”, “Afghaunistan”, “Afghaunistaun”, “Da Afghānestān Shāhī Dowlat”, “Democratic Republic of Afghanistan”, “Doulat i Jumhouri ye Afghanistan”, “Dowlat-e Eslāmī-ye Afghānestān”, “Dowlat-e Pādshāhī-ye Afghānestān”, “Islamic Republic of Afghanistan”, “Islamic State of Afghanistan”, “Jamhūrī-ye Islāmī-ye Afghānistān”, “Jomhūrī-ye Afghānestān”, “Jomhūrī-ye Demowkrātīk-e Afghānestān”, “Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Afghānestān”, “Kingdom of Afghanistan”, “Republic of Afghanistan”, and “د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوريت
  • Languages: Persian, Pushto, Uzbek, and Turkmen
  • Neighbors: , , , , , , and
  • Categories: sovereign state, landlocked country, and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
34° north
Longitude of center
66.4° or 66° 24′ east
Population
32,700,000
Area
647,500 km² (250,001 miles²)
Elevation
2,260 metres (7,415 feet)
Capital
Currency
Afghani (AFN)
Phone code
.af
Internet domain
93
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26847706
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
1149361
Wiki­data ID
Q889
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Afghanistan” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: Афӷанисҭан
  • Achinese: Afghanistan
  • Adyghe: Афганистан
  • Adyghe: Афгъанистан
  • Afrikaans: Afganistan
  • Afrikaans: Afghanistan
  • Akan: Afganistan
  • Albanian: Afganistan
  • Albanian: Afganistani
  • Amharic: አፍጋኒስታን
  • Amis: Afghanistan
  • Angika: अफगानिस्तान
  • Arabic: أفغانستان
  • Arabic: افغانستان
  • Aragonese: Afganistán
  • Armenian: Աֆղանստան
  • Arpitan: Afganistan
  • Assamese: আফগানিস্তান
  • Asturian: AF
  • Asturian: AFG
  • Asturian: Afganistán
  • Asturian: Afghanistán
  • Atayal: Afghanistan
  • Avaric: Афгъанистан
  • Awadhi: अफगानिस्तान
  • Azerbaijani: Əfqanıstan
  • Azerbaijani: Əfqənistan
  • Balinese: Afganistan
  • Bambara: Afiganistaŋ
  • Bashkir: Афғанстан
  • Basque: Afganistan
  • Batak Mandailing: Apganistan
  • Batak Toba: Apganistan
  • Bavarian: Afghanistan
  • Belarusian: Аўганістан
  • Belarusian: Афганістан
  • Bengali: আফগানিস্তান
  • Bengali: আফগানিস্থান
  • Betawi: Afghanistan
  • Betawi: Apganistan
  • Bhojpuri: अफ़ग़ानिस्तान
  • Bishnupriya: আফগানিস্তান
  • Bislama: Afganistan
  • Bosnian: af
  • Bosnian: Afganistan
  • Bosnian: Avganistan
  • Brahui: Aoģánistán
  • Breton: Afghanistan
  • Buginese: Afghanistan
  • Buginese: ᨕᨄᨛᨁᨊᨗᨔᨛᨈ
  • Bulgarian: Афганистан
  • Burmese: အာဖဂန်နစ္စတန်
  • Burmese: အာဖဂန်နစ္စတန်နိုင်ငံ
  • Catalan: Afganistan
  • Catalan: República de l’Afganistan
  • Cebuano: Afghanistan
  • Cebuano: Apganistan
  • Cebuano: Nasod nga Afghano
  • Central Bikol: Apganistan
  • Central Kanuri: Afghanistan
  • Central Kurdish: ئەفغانستان
  • Chamorro: Afghanistan
  • Chavacano: Afghanistan
  • Chechen: АфгIанистан
  • Chechen: ОвхӀан мохк
  • Chechen: ОвхӀан-пачхьалкх
  • Chechen: ОвхӀан
  • Cherokee: ᎠᏫᎨᏂᏍᏖᏂ
  • Cheyenne: Afghanistan
  • Chinese: Afghanistan
  • Chinese: Āfùhàn
  • Chinese: 阿富汗
  • Church Slavic: Афганистанъ
  • Chuvash: Афганистан
  • Cornish: Afganistan
  • Cornish: Afghanistan
  • Corsican: Afghanistan
  • Crimean Tatar: Afganîstan
  • Crimean Tatar: Afğanistan
  • Croatian: Afganistan
  • Czech: Afganistan
  • Czech: Afghánistán
  • Dagbani: Afghanistan
  • Danish: Afghanistan
  • Dhivehi: އަފްޣާނިސްތާން
  • Dimli (individual language): Efğanıstan
  • Dotyali: अफगानिस्तान
  • Dutch: AF
  • Dutch: AFG
  • Dutch: Afghanistan
  • Dzongkha: ཨཕ་ག་ནིསི་ཏཱན་
  • Dzongkha: ཨཕ་ག་ནིསི་ཏཱན
  • Dzongkha: ཨཕ་གྷ་ནི་སཏཱན
  • Eastern Mari: Афганистан
  • Egyptian Arabic: افغانستان
  • Erzya: Афганистан Мастор
  • Esperanto: Afganio
  • Esperanto: Afganistano
  • Esperanto: Afganujo
  • Estonian: Afganistan
  • Ewe: Afghanistan nutome
  • Extremaduran: Afganistán
  • Faroese: Afganistan
  • Faroese: Afghanistan
  • Fiji Hindi: Afghanistan
  • Finnish: Afganistan
  • French: Af.
  • French: AF
  • French: Afghanistan
  • French: pays des Cavaliers
  • Friulian: Afghanistan
  • Fulah: Afganistaan
  • Fulah: Afganistan
  • Gagauz: Afganistan
  • Galician: Afganistán
  • Ganda: Afaganisitani
  • Georgian: ავღანეთი
  • German: Afghanistan
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Affghanistan
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Afghanistan
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
  • Gilaki: أفغانستان
  • Goan Konkani: Afghanistan
  • Goan Konkani: अफगाणिस्तान
  • Gorontalo: Afganistan
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌲𐌰𐌽𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽
  • Greek: Αφγανιστάν
  • Guarani: Ahyganitã
  • Guianese Creole French: Afganistan
  • Gujarati: અફઘાનિસ્તાન
  • Haitian: Afganistan
  • Hakka Chinese: Â-fu-hon
  • Hakka Chinese: Afghanistan
  • Hausa: Afaganistan
  • Hausa: Afghanistan
  • Hawaiian: ‘Apekanikana
  • Hawaiian: ʻApekanikana
  • Hebrew: אפגאניסטאן
  • Hebrew: אפגניסטאן
  • Hebrew: אפגניסטן
  • Hindi: अफगानिस्तान
  • Hindi: अफ़गानिस्तान
  • Hindi: अफ़ग़ानिस्तान
  • Hindi: अफ़्गानिस्तान
  • Hindi: अफ़्ग़ानिस्तान
  • Hungarian: Afgánia
  • Hungarian: Afganisztán
  • Hungarian: Afganisztáni Iszlám Köztársaság
  • Iban: Afghanistan
  • Icelandic: Afganistan
  • Ido: Afganistan
  • Igbo: Afghanistan
  • Iloko: Apganistan
  • Inari Sami: Afganistan islamlâš eemiirkodde
  • Inari Sami: Afganistan
  • Indonesian: Afganistan
  • Indonesian: Afghanistan
  • Ingush: Афганистане
  • Interlingua: Afghanistan
  • Interlingue: Afganistan
  • Inuktitut: ᐊᑉᒐᓂᔅᑕᓐ
  • Irish: an Afganastáin
  • Irish: An Afganastáin
  • Italian: Afghanistan
  • Jamaican Creole English: Afganistan
  • Japanese: アフガニスタン・イスラム国
  • Japanese: アフガニスタン
  • Japanese: アフガン
  • Javanese: Afganistan
  • Javanese: Afghanistan
  • Kabardian: Афганистэн
  • Kabardian: Афгъанистэн
  • Kabiyè: Afganistani
  • Kabuverdianu: Afeganistãu
  • Kabyle: Afɣanistan
  • Kadazan Dusun: Afghanistan
  • Kalaallisut: Afghanistan
  • Kalaallisut: Afghanistani
  • Kalmyk: Сарта Апганмудин Орн
  • Kannada: ಅಫಘಾನಿಸ್ಥಾನ
  • Kannada: ಅಫಘಾನಿಸ್ಥಾನ್
  • Kannada: ಅಫ್ಘಾನಿಸ್ತಾನ
  • Kara-Kalpak: Awǵanstan
  • Karachay-Balkar: Афганистан
  • Kashmiri: اَفغٲنِستان
  • Kashmiri: اَفغانَستان
  • Kashubian: Afganistón
  • Kazakh: Ауғанстан
  • Khmer: សាធារណរដ្ឋឥស្លាមអាហ្វហ្កានីស្ថាន
  • Khmer: អាហ្វហ្កានីស្ថាន
  • Khmer: អាហ្វហ្គានីស្ថាន
  • Kikuyu: Afghanistan
  • Kikuyu: Afuganistani
  • Kinyarwanda: Afuganisitani
  • Kirghiz: Афганистан
  • Kirghiz: Афганстан
  • Kirghiz: Ооганстан
  • Kölsch: Afghanistan
  • Komering: Afghanistan
  • Komi: Афганистан
  • Kongo: Afghanistan
  • Korean: 아프가니스탄
  • Korean: 아프간
  • Kotava: Afgana
  • Kurdish: Afxanistan
  • Kurdish: Efxanistan
  • Kurdish: ئەفغانستان
  • Ladin: Afghanistan
  • Ladino: Afganistan
  • Lao: ປະເທດອາຟະການິດສະຖານ
  • Lao: ອັຟການິດສະຖານ
  • Lao: ອາຟການິດສະຖານ
  • Latin: Afgania
  • Latvian: Afganistāna
  • Lezghian: Афгъанистан
  • Ligurian: Afghanistan
  • Limburgan: Afganistan
  • Limburgan: Afghanistan
  • Lingala: Afganistáni
  • Lingala: Afiganisitá
  • Lingua Franca Nova: Afganistan
  • Literary Chinese: 阿富汗
  • Lithuanian: Afganistanas
  • Livvi: Afganistuanu
  • Lojban: afyganisTAN
  • Lombard: Afghanistan
  • Low German: Afghanistaan
  • Low German: Afghanistan
  • Lower Sorbian: Afghanistan
  • Luba-Katanga: Afuganisita
  • Lule Sami: Afganistádna
  • Lule Sami: Afghanistánna
  • Luxembourgish: Afghanistan
  • Macedo-Romanian: Afganistan
  • Macedonian: Авганистан
  • Madurese: Afganistan
  • Madurese: Afghanistan
  • Maithili: अफगानिस्तान
  • Malagasy: Afganistana
  • Malagasy: Afganistàna
  • Malagasy: Afghanistan
  • Malay: Afghanistan
  • Malay: افغانيستن
  • Malayalam: അഫ്ഗാനിസ്താൻ
  • Malayalam: അഫ്ഗാനിസ്ഥാന്‍
  • Malayalam: അഫ്‌ഗാനിസ്ഥാൻ
  • Maltese: Afganistan
  • Maltese: Afghanistan
  • Maltese: l-Afganistan
  • Manipuri: ꯑꯐꯒꯥꯅꯤꯁꯇꯥꯟ
  • Manipuri: ꯑꯐꯒꯥꯅꯤꯁ꯭ꯇꯥꯟ
  • Manx: Yn Afghanistaan
  • Maori: Awhekenetana
  • Maori: Āwhekenetāna
  • Marathi: अफगाणिस्तान
  • Mazanderani: افخانئون
  • Mazanderani: افخانستان
  • Mazanderani: افخانسون
  • Mazanderani: افغانستان
  • Mazanderani: افغانستون
  • Mazanderani: افغانسون
  • Min Dong Chinese: Afghanistan
  • Min Nan Chinese: Á-hu-gān
  • Min Nan Chinese: A-hù-hān
  • Min Nan Chinese: Afghanistan
  • Minangkabau: Afganistan
  • Mingrelian: ავღანეთი
  • Mingrelian: ავღანეთიშ ისლამური რესპუბლიკა
  • Mingrelian: ავღანეთიშ ისლამური საამირო
  • Mingrelian: ავღანისტანი
  • Mirandese: Afeganistan
  • Moksha: Афганистан
  • Mon: အဖဂါန္နိသတာန်
  • Mongolian: Афганистан
  • Moroccan Arabic: أفغانستان
  • Moroccan Arabic: أفغانيستان
  • Mossi: Afghanistan
  • N'Ko: ߊߝ
  • N'Ko: ߊߝߑߜ߭ߊߣߌߛߑߕߊ߲߫
  • Nauru: Apeganitan
  • Neapolitan: Afghanistan
  • Nepali: अफगानिस्तान
  • Nepali: अफ्गानिष्तान
  • Newari: अफगानिस्तान
  • North Ndebele: Afghanistan
  • Northern Frisian: Afghaanistaan
  • Northern Luri: افغانستان
  • Northern Sami: Afganistan
  • Northern Sami: Afganistána
  • Northern Sami: Afghanistan
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Afghanistan
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Afghanistan
  • Norwegian: Afghanistan
  • Novial: Afganistan
  • Occitan (post 1500): Afganistan
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܐܦܓܐܢܣܛܐܢ
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Æfghanland
  • Oriya: ଆଫଗାନିସ୍ତାନ
  • Oriya: ଆଫଗାନିସ୍ତାନ୍
  • Oriya: ଆଫାଗାନିସ୍ତାନ୍
  • Oromo: Afgaanistaan
  • Ossetian: Афгъанистан
  • Pali: अफगानस्थान
  • Pampanga: Afganistan
  • Pampanga: Afgánistan
  • Pangasinan: Afghanistan
  • Panjabi: ਅਫ਼ਗਾਨਿਸਤਾਨ
  • Panjabi: ਅਫ਼ਗ਼ਾਨਿਸਤਾਨ
  • Papiamento: Afganistan
  • Papiamento: Afganistán
  • Pennsylvania German: Afganischtaan
  • Persian: افغانستان
  • Persian: جمهورئ اسلامئ افغانستان
  • Persian: دولتٔ اسلامئ افغانستان
  • Picard: Afghanistan
  • Piemontese: Afgànistan
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Afganistaan
  • Polish: Afganistan
  • Portuguese: Afeganistão
  • Pushto: Dê Afghānistān Islāmī Jumhūriyat
  • Pushto: افغانستان
  • Pushto: د افغانستان اسلامی جمهوریت
  • Quechua: Afganistán
  • Quechua: Afgansuyu
  • Quechua: Aphqanusuyu
  • Quechua: Aqanisuyu
  • Romanian: Afganistan
  • Romanian: Афганистан
  • Romansh: Afganistan
  • Romansh: Afghanistan
  • Rundi: Afuganisitani
  • Russia Buriat: Афганистан
  • Russian: Афганистан
  • Russian: Исламский Эмират Афганистан
  • Rusyn: Афґаністан
  • Sakizaya: Afghanistan
  • Samoan: Afakanisitana
  • Samogitian: Afganėstans
  • Samogitian: Afganistanas
  • Sango: Faganïta, Afganïstäan
  • Sanskrit: अफगानस्थान
  • Sanskrit: अफगानिस्तान्
  • Sanskrit: अफगानिस्थानम्
  • Santali: ᱟᱯᱷᱜᱟᱱᱤᱥᱛᱟᱱ
  • Saraiki: افغانستان
  • Sardinian: Afganistàn
  • Sardinian: Afghànistan
  • Saterfriesisch: Afghanistan
  • Scots: Afghanistan
  • Scottish Gaelic: Afganastan
  • Scottish Gaelic: Afghanastàn
  • Serbian: Avganistan
  • Serbian: Авганистан
  • Serbo-Croatian: Afganistan
  • Shan: မိူင်းဢႃႇၾၵၢၼ်ႇၼီႇသတၢၼ်ႇ
  • Shona: Afghanistan
  • Shona: Afuganistani
  • Shona: Afughanistani
  • Sicilian: Afganistàn
  • Silesian: Afganistan
  • Silesian: Afgańistan
  • Sindhi: افغانستان
  • Sinhala: ඇෆ්ගනිස්ථානය
  • Skolt Sami: Afganistaan islaamlaž emiirkåʹdd
  • Skolt Sami: Afganistaan islaamlaž emiratt
  • Skolt Sami: Afganistaan
  • Slovak: Afganistan
  • Slovenian: Afganistan
  • Slovenian: Islamski emirat Afganistan
  • Somali: Afgaanistaan
  • Somali: Afgaanistan
  • South Azerbaijani: افغانیستان
  • Spanish: Afganistán
  • Sranan Tongo: Afganistan
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴰⴼⵖⴰⵏⵉⵙⵜⴰⵏ
  • Sundanese: Apganistan
  • Swahili: Afghanistan
  • Swahili: Afuganistani
  • Swati: I-Afugani
  • Swedish: Afganistan
  • Swedish: Afghanistan
  • Swiss German: Afghanischtan
  • Sylheti: ꠀꠚ꠆ꠉꠣꠘꠤꠍ꠆ꠔꠣꠘ
  • Tachelhit: Afɣanistan
  • Tagalog: Afghanistan
  • Tagalog: Apganistan
  • Tajik: af
  • Tajik: Афғонистан
  • Tajik: Афғонистон
  • Talysh: Əfǧanistan
  • Tamil: ஆஃப்கானிஸ்தான்
  • Tamil: ஆப்கானித்தான்
  • Tamil: ஆப்கானிஸ்தான்
  • Taroko: Afghanistan
  • Tatar: Äfğanstan
  • Tatar: Әфганстан
  • Telugu: ఆఫ్ఘనియ
  • Telugu: ఆఫ్ఘనిస్తాన్
  • Telugu: ఆఫ్ఘానిస్తాన్
  • Tetum: Afeganistaun
  • Thai: ประเทศอัฟกานิสถาน
  • Thai: อัฟกานิสถาน
  • Thai: เอมิเรตอิสลามอัฟกานิสถาน
  • Tibetan: ཨ་ཧྥུའུ་རྒན་སི་ཐན།
  • Tibetan: ཨཕ་ག་ནི་སྟཱན།
  • Tigrinya: AF
  • Tigrinya: AFG
  • Tigrinya: አፍጋኒስታን
  • Tigrinya: ኣፍጋኒስታን
  • Tigrinya: እስላማዊ ኢማራ ኣፍጋኒስታን
  • Tok Pisin: Afghanistan
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻAfikānisitani
  • Tosk Albanian: Afghanistan
  • Tsonga: Afghanistan
  • Tulu: ಅಫ್ಘಾನಿಸ್ತಾನ
  • Tumbuka: Afghanistan
  • Tunisian Arabic: أفغانستان
  • Turkish: af
  • Turkish: AFG
  • Turkish: Afganistan
  • Turkmen: Owganystan
  • Twi: Afghanistan
  • Tyap: A̱fganistan
  • Udmurt: Афганистан
  • Uighur: ئافغانىستان
  • Ukrainian: Афганістан
  • Upper Sorbian: Afghanistan
  • Urdu: افغانستان
  • Uzbek: Afg’oniston
  • Uzbek: Afgʻoniston
  • Uzbek: Афғонистон
  • Venetian: Afganistan
  • Veps: Afganistan
  • Vietnamese: A Phú Hãn (Afghanistan)
  • Vietnamese: A Phú Hãn
  • Vietnamese: AFG
  • Vietnamese: Afghanistan
  • Vietnamese: Áp-ga-ni-xtan
  • Vietnamese: Apganixtan
  • Vlaams: Afghanistan
  • Vlax Romani: Afganistan
  • Volapük: Lafganistän
  • Võro: Afganistan
  • Waray (Philippines): Afganistan
  • Welsh: Affganistan
  • Welsh: Afghanistan
  • Western Armenian: Աֆղանիստան
  • Western Balochi: اوگانستان
  • Western Frisian: Afganistan
  • Western Frisian: Afghanistan
  • Western Frisian: Islamityske Emiraat Afganistan
  • Western Panjabi: افغانستان
  • Wolof: Afganistaan
  • Wolof: Afganistaŋ
  • Wu Chinese: 阿富汗
  • Yakut: Афганистаан
  • Yiddish: אפגאניסטאן
  • Yiddish: אַפֿגהאַניסטאַן
  • Yoruba: Afghanístàn
  • Yoruba: Àfùgànístánì
  • Yoruba: Orílẹ́ède Àfùgànístánì
  • Yue Chinese: 阿富汗
  • Zeeuws: Afghanistan
  • Zhuang: Ahfuhan
  • Zulu: I-Afganistani
  • Zulu: i-Afghanistan
  • AF
  • AFG
  • Afganėstans
  • Afganistan
  • Afganistan Tlalli
  • Afghanistan
  • ma Akan
  • ma Akanisan
  • Афганистан
  • अफ़ग़ानिस्तान

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