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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is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
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is the capital of province, and the largest city in .
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, also written as Harat or Hirat, and…

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This section covers the eastern portion of Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan

  • Country with about 41,500,000 residents
  • …has as its capital
  • …uses the Afghani (AFN)
  • …has the phone code 93
  • …uses the internet domain .af
  • …covers 647,500 km² (250,001 miles²)
  • 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”
    “د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوريت”
  • Languages
    Persian
    Pushto
    Uzbek
    Turkmen
  • Neighbors
  • Categories
    sovereign state
    landlocked country
    locality
  • Location
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Latitude of center
34° north
Longitude of center
66.4° or 66° 24′ east
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: “افغانستان”
  • Aragonese: “Afganistán”
  • Armenian: “Աֆղանստան”
  • Arpitan: “Afganistan”
  • Assamese: “আফগানিস্তান”
  • Asturian: “Afganistán”
  • Asturian: “Afghanistán”
  • Atayal: “Afghanistan”
  • Avaric: “Афгъанистан”
  • Awadhi: “अफगानिस्तान”
  • Aymara: “Afgan suyu”
  • 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”
  • Bole: “Afghanistan”
  • 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: “ОвхӀан мохк”
  • Chechen: “ОвхӀан-пачхьалкх”
  • Chechen: “ОвхӀан”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᏫᎨᏂᏍᏖᏂ”
  • Cheyenne: “Afghanistan”
  • Chinese: “Āfùhàn”
  • Chinese: “阿富汗”
  • Choctaw: “Afkanistan”
  • Choctaw: “Afyanistan”
  • Church Slavic: “Афганистанъ”
  • Chuvash: “Афганистан”
  • Cornish: “Afganistan”
  • Cornish: “Afghanistan”
  • Corsican: “Afghanistan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Afğanistan”
  • Croatian: “Afganistan”
  • Czech: “Afganistan”
  • Czech: “Afghánistán”
  • Dagbani: “Afghanistan”
  • Danish: “Afghanistan”
  • Dhivehi: “އަފްޣާނިސްތާން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Efğanıstan”
  • Dotyali: “अफगानिस्तान”
  • Dutch: “Afghanistan”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨཕ་ག་ནིསི་ཏཱན་”
  • 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: “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”
  • Goan Konkani: “अफगानिस्तान”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “אפגאניסטאן”
  • Hebrew: “אפגניסטאן”
  • Hebrew: “אפגניסטן”
  • Hindi: “अफ़ग़ानिस्तान”
  • 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: “Афганехье”
  • Ingush: “Афганистане”
  • Interlingua: “Afghanistan”
  • Interlingue: “Afganistan”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐊᑉᒐᓂᔅᑕᓐ”
  • 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: “ಅಫಘಾನಿಸ್ಥಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಅಫ್ಘಾನಿಸ್ತಾನ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Awǵanstan”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Афганистан”
  • Karekare: “Afganistàan”
  • Kashmiri: “اَفغٲنِستان”
  • Kashmiri: “اَفغانَستان”
  • Kashubian: “Afganistan”
  • 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”
  • Magahi: “अफगानिस्तान”
  • Maithili: “अफगानिस्तान”
  • Malagasy: “Afganistàna”
  • Malagasy: “Afghanistan”
  • Malay: “Afghanistan”
  • Malay: “افغانيستن”
  • Malayalam: “അഫ്ഗാനിസ്താൻ”
  • Malayalam: “അഫ്ഗാനിസ്ഥാന്‍”
  • Malayalam: “അഫ്‌ഗാനിസ്ഥാൻ”
  • Malayalam: “അഫ്ഘാനിസ്ഥാൻ”
  • Maltese: “Afganistan”
  • Maltese: “Afghanistan”
  • Maltese: “l-Afganistan”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯐꯒꯥꯅꯤꯁ꯭ꯇꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Yn Afghanistaan”
  • 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: “ଆଫାଗାନିସ୍ତାନ୍”
  • Oromo: “Afgaanistaan”
  • Ossetian: “Афгъанистан”
  • Pali: “अफगानस्थान”
  • Pampanga: “Afgánistan”
  • Pangasinan: “Afghanistan”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਫ਼ਗ਼ਾਨਿਸਤਾਨ”
  • 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: “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”
  • Swiss German: “Afghanistan”
  • 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: “ఆఫ్ఘానిస్తాన్”
  • Tetum: “Afeganistaun”
  • Thai: “ประเทศอัฟกานิสถาน”
  • Thai: “อัฟกานิสถาน”
  • Thai: “เอมิเรตอิสลามอัฟกานิสถาน”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཧྥུའུ་རྒན་སི་ཐན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨཕ་ག་ནི་སྟཱན།”
  • Tigrinya: “አፍጋኒስታን”
  • Tigrinya: “ኣፍጋኒስታን”
  • Tigrinya: “እስላማዊ ኢማራ ኣፍጋኒስታን”
  • Tok Pisin: “Afghanistan”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻAfikānisitani”
  • Tsonga: “Afghanistan”
  • Tulu: “ಅಫ್ಘಾನಿಸ್ತಾನ”
  • Tumbuka: “Afghanistan”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “أفغانستان”
  • Turkish: “af”
  • Turkish: “Afganistan”
  • Turkmen: “Owganystan”
  • Twi: “Afghanistan”
  • Tyap: “A̱fganistan”
  • Udmurt: “Афганистан”
  • Uighur: “ئافغانىستان”
  • Ukrainian: “Афганістан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Afghanistan”
  • Urdu: “افغانستان”
  • Uzbek: “Afg’oniston”
  • Uzbek: “Афғонистон”
  • Venetian: “Afganistan”
  • Veps: “Afganistan”
  • Vietnamese: “A Phú Hãn (Afghanistan)”
  • Vietnamese: “A Phú Hãn”
  • Vietnamese: “Afghanistan”
  • Vietnamese: “Áp-ga-ni-xtan”
  • 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”
  • “AFG”
  • “Afganistan Tlalli”
  • “ma Akanisan”

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