South Afghanistan
Kandahar
Kandahar District

Kandahar

Kandahar is the capital of Kandahar province, and the largest city in . Kandahar 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.
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  • Type: City with 450,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
  • Also known as: “Candahar”, “Kandagar”, “Kandhar”, “Qandahar”, and “Qanḏahāṟ”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Cloak of Muhammad and Kandahar Provincial Museum.

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The is a relic hidden inside Kirka Sharif in Kandahar, . It is a cloak believed to have been worn by the Islamic prophet Muhammad during the Night Journey in 621 AD.

Museum
The is a located in Kandahar, .

Mosque
The , also known as Jame Mui Mobarak, is a located near the Kabul Bazaar, in the city of Kandahar, .

Kandahar

Latitude
31.6206° or 31° 37′ 14″ north
Longitude
65.7158° or 65° 42′ 57″ east
Population
450,000
Elevation
1,007 metres (3,304 feet)
IATA airport code
KDH
United Nations Location Code
AF KDH
Open location code
8J37JPC8+68
Open­Street­Map ID
node 97993575
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1138336
Wiki­data ID
Q45604
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Kandahar” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kandahar”
  • Arabic: “قندهار”
  • Armenian: “Կանդագար”
  • Armenian: “Կանդահար”
  • Armenian: “Քանդահար”
  • Asturian: “Kandahar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qəndəhar”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡандағар”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡандаһар”
  • Basque: “Kandahar”
  • Belarusian: “Кандагар”
  • Bengali: “কান্দাহার”
  • Bosnian: “Kandahar”
  • Bulgarian: “Кандахар”
  • Burmese: “ကန်ဒါဟာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Kandahar”
  • Catalan: “Kandahār”
  • Catalan: “Qandahar”
  • Catalan: “Qandahār”
  • Cebuano: “Kandahār”
  • Central Kurdish: “قەندەهار”
  • Chinese: “坎大哈”
  • Chinese: “坎達哈”
  • Chinese: “堪達哈”
  • Croatian: “Kandahar”
  • Czech: “Kandahár”
  • Czech: “Kándahár”
  • Danish: “Kandahar”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kendehar”
  • Dutch: “Kandahar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قندهار”
  • Esperanto: “Kandahar”
  • Esperanto: “Kandaharo”
  • Estonian: “Kandahar”
  • Estonian: “Kandahār”
  • Estonian: “Qandahār”
  • Finnish: “Kandahar”
  • Finnish: “Qandahar”
  • Finnish: “Quandahar”
  • French: “Kandahar”
  • French: “Kandahâr”
  • French: “Kandahār”
  • French: “Qandahar”
  • French: “Qandahār”
  • Georgian: “კანდაგარი”
  • Georgian: “ყანდაარი”
  • German: “Kandahar”
  • Greek: “Κανταχάρ”
  • Gujarati: “કંદહાર”
  • Hausa: “Kandahar”
  • Hebrew: “אלכסנדרופוליס”
  • Hebrew: “קנדאהר”
  • Hebrew: “קנדהאר”
  • Hebrew: “קנדהר”
  • Hindi: “कंदहार”
  • Hindi: “कंधार”
  • Hindi: “कन्दहार”
  • Hindi: “कन्दाहार”
  • Hindi: “कन्धार”
  • Hindi: “कांधार”
  • Hungarian: “Kandahár”
  • Icelandic: “Kandahar”
  • Indonesian: “Kandahar”
  • Irish: “Kandahar”
  • Italian: “Alessandria Arachosia”
  • Italian: “Kandahar”
  • Italian: “Qandahar”
  • Japanese: “カンダハール”
  • Japanese: “カンダハル”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kandahar”
  • Kannada: “ಕಂದಹಾರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಂದಹಾರ್”
  • Kashmiri: “قَنٛدھار”
  • Kirghiz: “Кандагар”
  • Korean: “칸다하르”
  • Kurdish: “Qendehar”
  • Latin: “Alexandria apud Arachotos”
  • Latin: “Candaharia”
  • Latvian: “Kandahar”
  • Latvian: “Kandahara”
  • Latvian: “Kandahāra”
  • Lithuanian: “Kandaharas”
  • Lithuanian: “Qandahar”
  • Lombard: “Kandahar”
  • Macedonian: “Кандахар”
  • Malay: “Kandahar”
  • Malayalam: “Kandahar”
  • Malayalam: “കണ്ടഹാർ”
  • Malayalam: “കന്ദഹാർ”
  • Malayalam: “കാണ്ഡഹാർ”
  • Malayalam: “ഖണ്ഡഹാർ”
  • Malayalam: “ഖന്ദഹാർ”
  • Maori: “Kandahar”
  • Marathi: “कंदहार”
  • Marathi: “कंदाहार”
  • Mazanderani: “قندهار”
  • Mingrelian: “ყანდაარი”
  • Mongolian: “Кандахар”
  • Nauru: “Kandahar”
  • Nepali: “कन्दहार”
  • Nepali: “कन्दाहार”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kandahar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kandahar”
  • Norwegian: “Kandahar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kandahar”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Alexandria Arachosia”
  • Ossetian: “Кандагар”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੰਧਾਰ”
  • Persian: “قندهار”
  • Persian: “كندهار”
  • Persian: “کندهار”
  • Piemontese: “Kandahar”
  • Polish: “Aleksandria w Arachozji”
  • Polish: “Kandahar”
  • Portuguese: “Candaar”
  • Portuguese: “Kandahar”
  • Pushto: “قندهار”
  • Pushto: “کندهار”
  • Quechua: “Kandahar”
  • Romanian: “Kandahar”
  • Russian: “Кандагар”
  • Russian: “Кандахар”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱟᱱᱫᱟᱦᱟᱨ”
  • Scots: “Kandahar”
  • Serbian: “Кандахар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kandahar”
  • Sindhi: “قندھار”
  • Sindhi: “قنڌار”
  • Sindhi: “ڪندهار”
  • Sindhi: “گنڌار”
  • Sinhala: “කන්ඩාහර්”
  • Slovak: “Kandahár”
  • Slovenian: “Kandahar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قندهار”
  • Spanish: “Alejandria de Aracosia”
  • Spanish: “Alejandría de Aracosia”
  • Spanish: “Candahar”
  • Spanish: “Kandaha r”
  • Spanish: “Kandaha-r”
  • Spanish: “Kandahar”
  • Spanish: “Kandahār”
  • Spanish: “Qandahar”
  • Spanish: “Qandahār”
  • Swedish: “Kandahar”
  • Swedish: “Qandahar”
  • Tagalog: “Kandahar”
  • Tajik: “Қандаҳор”
  • Tajik: “Сафари қандиҳор”
  • Tamil: “கந்தஹார்”
  • Tamil: “காந்தாரம்”
  • Tatar: “Кандаһар”
  • Tatar: “Кәндәһар”
  • Telugu: “కాందహార్”
  • Thai: “กันดะฮาร์”
  • Turkish: “Kandahar”
  • Turkish: “Kandehar”
  • Ukrainian: “Кандагар”
  • Urdu: “قندھار”
  • Urdu: “قندہار”
  • Uzbek: “Qandahor”
  • Venetian: “Kandahar”
  • Vietnamese: “Kandahar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kandahar”
  • Western Panjabi: “قندھار”
  • Wu Chinese: “坎大哈”
  • Yue Chinese: “坎大哈”

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