Afghanistan Information

Afghanistan

Long fought over Afghanistan, with its part of the ancient "Silk Route", a strategic position between the Middle East, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent and China, fought over even with its hot summers and cold winters and the dry, rugged and inhospitable terrain.

Information From the CIA: Ahmad Shah DURRANI unified the Pashtun tribes and founded Afghanistan in 1747. The country served as a buffer between the British and Russian empires until it won independence from notional British control in 1919. A brief experiment in democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 Communist counter-coup. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 to support the tottering Afghan Communist regime, but withdrew 10 years later under relentless pressure by internationally supported anti-Communist mujahedin rebels. A civil war between mujahedin factions erupted following the 1992 fall of the Communist regime. The Taliban, a hardline Pakistani-sponsored movement that emerged in 1994 to end the country's civil war and anarchy, seized Kabul in 1996 and most of the country outside of opposition Northern Alliance strongholds by 1998. Following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, a US, Allied, and Northern Alliance military action toppled the Taliban for sheltering Osama BIN LADIN. In late 2001, a conference in Bonn, Germany, established a process for political reconstruction that included the adoption of a new constitution in 2003, a presidential election in 2004, and National Assembly elections in 2005. On 9 October 2004, Hamid KARZAI became the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan. The National Assembly was inaugurated on 19 December 2005.

Afghanistan remains extremely poor, and highly dependent on foreign aid, farming, and trade with neighboring countries. It will probably take the remainder of the decade and continuing donor aid and attention to significantly raise Afghanistan's living standards from its current status, among the lowest in the world.

International Disputes: the UN has been able to repatriate over two million Afghan refugees but several million more continue to reside in Iran and Pakistan in camps and elsewhere, many at their own choosing; Coalition and Pakistani forces continue to patrol remote tribal areas to control the borders and stem organized terrorist and other illegal cross-border activities; regular meetings between Pakistani and Coalition allies aim to resolve periodic claims of boundary encroachments; occasional conflicts over water-sharing arrangements with Amu Darya and Helmand River states.

Afghanistan is landlocked with a border total of 5,529 km. Border countries are China 76 km, Iran 936 km, Pakistan 2,430 km, Tajikistan 1,206 km, Turkmenistan 744 km, Uzbekistan 137 km.

There are 34 provinces (called velayat there); Badakhshan, Badghis, Baghlan, Balkh, Bamian, Daykondi, Farah, Faryab, Ghazni, Ghowr, Helmand, Herat, Jowzjan, Kabol, Kandahar, Kapisa, Khowst, Konar, Kondoz, Laghman, Lowgar, Nangarhar, Nimruz, Nurestan, Oruzgan, Paktia, Paktika, Panjshir, Parvan, Samangan, Sar-e Pol, Takhar, Vardak, and Zabol. Kabul is the Capital.

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Afghanistan Provinces

Badakhshan Province Afghanistan

The capital of Badakhshan is Fezabad.

Badakhshan is about 24,600 sq mi or 63,710 sq km, in the Pamir, highland region of Central Asia. It is bordered by China on the east.

Badghis Province Afghanistan

The capital is Qal'eh-ye Now

Baghlan Province Afghanistan

The capital is Baghlan

Balkh Province Afghanistan

The capital is Mazar-e Sharif

Bamian Province Afghanistan

The capital is Bamian

Daikondi Province Afghanistan

Established March 28, 2004 from an isolated district of Oruzgan province. The capital is Khadir

Farah Province Afghanistan

The capital is Farah

Faryab Province Afghanistan

The capital is Meymana

Ghazni Province Afghanistan

The capital is Ghazni

Ghowr or Ghor Province Afghanistan

The capital is Cheghcharan

Chaghcharan

the capital of Ghor province. It is located on the southern side of Hari Rud (Hari River), at an altitude of 2,280 m.

Herat Province Afghanistan

The capital is Herat

Helmand Province Afghanistan

The capital is Lashkargah

Jowsjan Province Afghanistan

The capital is Shiberghan

Kabul Province Afghanistan

The capital is Kabul, the largest city and the capital of Afghanistan

Kapisa Province Afghanistan

The capital is Mahmud-e-Eraqi

Khost or Khowst Province Afghanistan

In southeastern Afghanistan and shares a 140-kilometer-long border with neighboring Pakistan. The Capital is Khost.

Konar Province Afghanistan

The capital is Asadabad

Kondoz Province Afghanistan

The capital is Kondoz

Laghman Province Afghanistan

The capital is Mehtarlam

Logar Province Afghanistan

The capital is Barakibarak

Nangarhar Province Afghanistan

The capital is Jalalabad

Nimroz Province Afghanistan

The capital is Zaranj

Nurestan Province Afghanistan

The capital is Kamdish

Oruzgan Province Afghanistan

The capital is Tarin Kowt

Paktia Province Afghanistan

The capital is Gardez

Paktika Province Afghanistan

The capital is Sharanah

Panjshir Province Afghanistan

The capital is Bazarak

Parwan Province Afghanistan

The capital is Charikar

Kandahar Province Afghanistan

The capital is Kandahar

Samangan Province Afghanistan

The capital is Aibak

Sar-e-pul Province Afghanistan

The capital is Tokzar

Takhar Province Afghanistan

The capital is Taloqan

Vardak or Wardak Province Afghanistan

The capital is Maidan Shahr

Zabul Province Afghanistan

The capital is Qalat

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