East Afghanistan
Kabul
Kabul District

Kabul

Kabul has been the capital of since about 1776. The city was badly damaged during the various wars since 1979, particularly its western parts.
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  • Type: City with 3,290,000 residents
  • Description: capital and the largest city of Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Cabool”, “Cabul”, “Caubul”, “Kabol”, “Kābol”, “Kaboul”, “Kabura”, and “Kubha”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Abdul Rahman Mosque and Puli Khishti Jamia Masjid.

Mosque
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The , also known as the Grand Mosque of Kabul, is a Sunni Congregational mosque, located in the central commercial area of Deh Afghanan, in Kabul, .

Mosque
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The Pul-e Khishti Mosque is the largest in Kabul, . Located in the center of old Kabul, the Pul-e Khishti Mosque can be identified by its large blue dome.

Mosque
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The Eidgah Mosque; also spelled as the Id Gah Mosque, is a Sunni located in Kabul, . It is located to the southeast of the affluent Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood, near the and Chaman-e-Hozori.

Kabul

Latitude
34.527° or 34° 31′ 37″ north
Longitude
69.1851° or 69° 11′ 6″ east
Population
3,290,000
Elevation
1,798 metres (5,899 feet)
IATA airport code
KBL
United Nations Location Code
AF KBL
Open location code
8J6FG5GP+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21716195
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1138958
Wiki­data ID
Q5838
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Kabul” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Kabul”
  • Afrikaans: “Kaboel”
  • Albanian: “Kabuli”
  • Amharic: “ካቡል”
  • Arabic: “كابل”
  • Arabic: “كابول”
  • Aragonese: “Kabul”
  • Armenian: “Քաբուլ”
  • Arpitan: “Caboul”
  • Asturian: “Kabul”
  • Awadhi: “काबुल”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kabil”
  • Balinese: “Kabul”
  • Bashkir: “Кабул”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡабул”
  • Basque: “Kabul”
  • Belarusian: “Кабул”
  • Bengali: “কাবুল”
  • Betawi: “Kabul”
  • Bosnian: “Kabul”
  • Brahui: “Kábul”
  • Breton: “Kaboul”
  • Bulgarian: “Кабул”
  • Burmese: “ကဘူးလ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Kabul”
  • Cebuano: “Kabul”
  • Central Bikol: “Kabul”
  • Central Kanuri: “Kabul”
  • Central Kurdish: “کابول”
  • Chechen: “Кабул”
  • Chinese: “Kābù’ěr”
  • Chinese: “Kabul”
  • Chinese: “喀布尔”
  • Chinese: “喀布爾”
  • Chuvash: “Кабул”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kabil”
  • Croatian: “Kabul”
  • Czech: “Kábul”
  • Danish: “Kabul”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kabil”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kabul”
  • Dotyali: “काबुल”
  • Dutch: “Kaboel”
  • Dutch: “Kabul”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кабул”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كابل”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه كابل”
  • Esperanto: “Kabulo”
  • Estonian: “Kabul”
  • Faroese: “Kabul”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kabul”
  • Finnish: “Kabul”
  • French: “Kaboul”
  • French: “Kâboul”
  • Galician: “Cabul”
  • Georgian: “ქაბული”
  • German: “Kabul”
  • Gilaki: “کابۊل”
  • Greek: “Καμπούλ”
  • Gujarati: “કાબુલ”
  • Haitian: “Kaboul”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kabul”
  • Hausa: “Kabul”
  • Hebrew: “קאבול”
  • Hindi: “काबुल”
  • Hungarian: “Kabul”
  • Icelandic: “Kabúl”
  • Ido: “Kabul”
  • Iloko: “Kabul”
  • Inari Sami: “Kabul”
  • Indonesian: “Kabul”
  • Interlingua: “Kabul”
  • Interlingue: “Kabul”
  • Irish: “Cabúl”
  • Italian: “Cabul”
  • Italian: “Kabul”
  • Japanese: “カーブル”
  • Japanese: “カブール”
  • Javanese: “Kabul”
  • Kabiyè: “Kabuli”
  • Kabyle: “Kabul”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Kabul”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kabul”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಬುಲ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kabul”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Qabul”
  • Kashmiri: “کابُل”
  • Kazakh: “Кабул”
  • Khmer: “ទីក្រុងកាបូល”
  • Kikuyu: “Kabul”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kabul”
  • Kirghiz: “Кабул”
  • Komering: “Kabul”
  • Korean: “카불”
  • Kurdish: “Kabûl”
  • Ladin: “Kabul”
  • Lao: “ຄາບູລ”
  • Latin: “Cabura”
  • Latvian: “Kabula”
  • Ligurian: “Kabul”
  • Lingala: “Kabul”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Kabul”
  • Lithuanian: “Kabulas”
  • Livvi: “Kabul”
  • Lombard: “Kabul”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kabul”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Kabul”
  • Macedonian: “Кабул”
  • Maithili: “काबुल”
  • Malagasy: “Kabul”
  • Malay: “Kabul”
  • Malayalam: “കാബൂൾ”
  • Maltese: “Kabul”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯥꯕꯨꯜ”
  • Manx: “Kabul”
  • Maori: “Kabul”
  • Marathi: “काबुल”
  • Mazanderani: “کابل”
  • Mazanderani: “کابول”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kabul”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kabul”
  • Minangkabau: “Kabul”
  • Mingrelian: “ქაბული”
  • Moksha: “Кабул”
  • Mongolian: “Кабул”
  • Mongolian: “ᠻᠠᠪᠦ᠋᠋ᠯ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كابول”
  • Nauru: “Kabul”
  • Nepali: “काबुल”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kabul”
  • Northern Sami: “Kabul”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kabul”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kabul”
  • Norwegian: “Kabul”
  • Novial: “Kabul”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kabol”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cabūl”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cabura”
  • Oriya: “କାବୁଲ”
  • Ossetian: “Кабул”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਬੁਲ”
  • Papiamento: “Kabul”
  • Persian: “كابل”
  • Persian: “کابل”
  • Piemontese: “Kabul”
  • Polish: “Kabul”
  • Portuguese: “Cabul”
  • Pushto: “کابل”
  • Quechua: “Kawul”
  • Romanian: “Kabul”
  • Romanian: “Кабул”
  • Russia Buriat: “Кабул”
  • Russian: “Гаофу”
  • Russian: “Кабул”
  • Russian: “Кабура”
  • Russian: “Кубха”
  • Sakizaya: “Ke’-pu-e”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱟᱵᱩᱞ”
  • Sardinian: “Kabul”
  • Scots: “Kabul”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kabul”
  • Serbian: “Кабул”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kabul”
  • Shona: “Kabul”
  • Sicilian: “Kabul”
  • Silesian: “Kabul”
  • Sindhi: “ڪابل”
  • Sinhala: “කාබුල්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kabul”
  • Slovak: “Kábul”
  • Slovenian: “Kabul”
  • Somali: “Kabul”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کابول”
  • Spanish: “Kabul”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⴰⴱⵓⵍ”
  • Sundanese: “Kabul”
  • Swahili: “Kabul”
  • Swedish: “Kabul”
  • Swiss German: “Kabul”
  • Tagalog: “Kabul”
  • Tajik: “Кобул”
  • Talysh: “Kabul”
  • Tamil: “காபுல்”
  • Tamil: “காபூல்”
  • Tatar: “Кабул”
  • Telugu: “కాబుల్”
  • Telugu: “కాబూల్”
  • Thai: “คาบูล”
  • Tibetan: “ཁ་པུལ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kabul”
  • Tumbuka: “Kabul”
  • Turkish: “Kabil”
  • Turkish: “Kâbil”
  • Turkmen: “Kabul”
  • Udmurt: “Кабул”
  • Uighur: “كابۇل”
  • Ukrainian: “Кабул”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kabul”
  • Urdu: “کابل”
  • Uzbek: “Kobul”
  • Uzbek: “Qobul”
  • Venetian: “Kabul”
  • Veps: “Kabul”
  • Vietnamese: “Cabool”
  • Vietnamese: “Cabul”
  • Vietnamese: “Caubul”
  • Vietnamese: “Ka-Bu”
  • Vietnamese: “Kabul”
  • Volapük: “Kabol”
  • Võro: “Kabul”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kabul”
  • Welsh: “Kabul”
  • Western Armenian: “Քապուլ”
  • Western Frisian: “Kabûl”
  • Western Panjabi: “کابل”
  • Wu Chinese: “喀布尔”
  • Yakut: “Кабул”
  • Yiddish: “קאבול”
  • Yoruba: “Kabul”
  • Yue Chinese: “喀布爾”
  • Zulu: “i-Kabul”
  • “Cabul”
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