Afghanistan
Afghanistan is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. The country shares borders with Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Pakistan, China, and the disputed Kashmir territory.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Kandahar
Kandahar is the capital of Kandahar province, and the largest city in Southern Afghanistan.Herat
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Herat is a big, relatively wealthy city in western Afghanistan.
Destinations
East Afghanistan
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This section covers the eastern portion of Afghanistan.
South Afghanistan
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This section covers the southern portion of Afghanistan.
Hindu Kush
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The Hindu Kush 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 Himalayas.
Afghanistan
- Type: Country with 32,700,000 residents
- Description: country in Central and South Asia
- Languages: Persian, Pushto, Uzbek and Turkmen
- Neighbors: China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
- Categories: sovereign state, landlocked country and locality
- Location: Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude of centre
34° northLongitude of centre
66.4° or 66° 24' eastPopulation
32,700,000Area
647,500 km² (250,001 miles²)Elevation
2,260 metres (7,415 feet)Capital
KabulCurrency
Afghani (AFN)Phone code
.afInternet domain
93OpenStreetMap ID
node 26847706OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
1149361Wikidata ID
Q889Afghanistan Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Afɣanistan
- Abkhazian: Афӷанисҭан
- Achinese: Afghanistan
- Adyghe: Афганистан
- Adyghe: Афгъанистан
- Afar: Awǵanstan
- Afrikaans: Afganistan
- Afrikaans: Afghanistan
- Akan: Afganistan
- Akan: Afghanistan
- Albanian: Afganistan
- Albanian: Afganistani
- Amharic: Afohan
- Amharic: አፍጋኒስታን
- Amis: Afghanistan
- Angika: अफगानिस्तान
- Arabic: Afganistan
- Arabic: أفغانستان
- Arabic: افغانستان
- Aragonese: Afganistán
- Armenian: Աֆղանիստան
- Armenian: Աֆղանստան
- Arpitan: Afganistan
- Assamese: আফগানিস্তান
- Asturian: AF
- Asturian: AFG
- Asturian: Afganistán
- Asturian: Afghanistán
- Atayal: Afghanistan
- Avaric: Afgana
- Avaric: Афгъанистан
- Awadhi: अफगानिस्तान
- Azerbaijani: Əfqanıstan
- Azerbaijani: Əfqənistan
- Balinese: Afganistan
- Bambara: Afiganistaŋ
- Bashkir: Афғанстан
- Basque: Afganistan
- Bavarian: Afghanistan
- Belarusian: Афганістан
- Belarusian: Аўганістан
- Bengali: আফগানিস্তান
- Bengali: আফগানিস্থান
- Bhojpuri: अफ़ग़ानिस्तान
- Bishnupriya: আফগানিস্তান
- Bislama: Afganistan
- Bosnian: Afganistan
- Bosnian: Avganistan
- Bosnian: af
- Brahui: Aoģánistán
- Breton: Afghanistan
- Buginese: Afghanistan
- Buginese: ᨕᨄᨁᨊᨗᨔᨈᨊ
- 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 Kurdish: ئەفغانستان
- Chamorro: Afghanistan
- Chavacano: Afghanistan
- Chechen: АфгIанистан
- Chechen: ОвхӀан-пачхьалкх
- Chechen: ОвхӀан
- Chechen: ОвхӀан мохк
- Cherokee: ᎠᏫᎨᏂᏍᏖᏂ
- Cheyenne: Afghanistan
- Chinese: Afghanistan
- Chinese: Āfùhàn
- Chinese: 阿富汗
- Church Slavic: Афганистанъ
- Chuvash: Афганистан
- 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: 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
- English: AFG
- English: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- English: af
- 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
- Galician: أفغانستان
- Ganda: Afaganisitani
- Georgian: ავღანეთი
- German: Afghanistan
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: 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: Afghanistan
- Hakka Chinese: Â-fu-hon
- Hausa: Afaganistan
- Hausa: Afghanistan
- Hausa: ʻApekanikana
- Hawaiian: ‘Apekanikana
- Hebrew: אפגאניסטאן
- Hebrew: אפגניסטאן
- Hebrew: אפגניסטן
- Hindi: अफगानिस्तान
- Hindi: अफ़ग़ानिस्तान
- Hindi: अफ़गानिस्तान
- Hindi: अफ़्गानिस्तान
- Hungarian: Afganisztán
- Hungarian: Afganisztáni Iszlám Köztársaság
- Hungarian: Afgánia
- Icelandic: Afganistan
- Ido: Afganistan
- Igbo: Afghanistan
- Iloko: Apganistan
- 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
- Japanese: アフガニスタン・イスラム国
- Japanese: アフガン
- Javanese: Afganistan
- Javanese: Afghanistan
- Kabardian: Афганистэн
- Kabiyè: Afganistani
- Kabyle: Afɣanistan
- Kalaallisut: Afghanistan
- Kalaallisut: Afghanistani
- Kalmyk: Сарта Апганмудин Орн
- Kannada: ಅಫಘಾನಿಸ್ಥಾನ
- Kannada: ಅಫಘಾನಿಸ್ಥಾನ್
- Kannada: ಅಫ್ಘಾನಿಸ್ತಾನ
- Kanuri: Afghanistan
- Kara-Kalpak: Afg'anstan
- Karachay-Balkar: Афганистан
- Kashmiri: افغٲنِستان
- Kashmiri: اَفغانَستان
- Kashubian: Afganistón
- Kazakh: Ауғанстан
- Khmer: សាធារណរដ្ឋឥស្លាមអាហ្វហ្កានីស្ថាន
- Khmer: អាហ្វហ្កានីស្ថាន
- Khmer: អាហ្វហ្គានីស្ថាន
- Kikuyu: Afghanistan
- Kikuyu: Afuganistani
- Kinyarwanda: Afuganisitani
- Kirghiz: Афганистан
- Kirghiz: Афганстан
- Kirghiz: Ооганстан
- Komi: Афганистан
- Kongo: Afghanistan
- Korean: 아프가니스탄
- Korean: 아프간
- Kotava: Afgana
- Kurdish: Afxanistan
- Kurdish: Efxanistan
- Kurdish: ئەفغانستان
- Kölsch: Afghanistan
- Ladin: Afghanistan
- Ladino: Afganistan
- Lao: Apganistan
- 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
- 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: A-hù-hān
- Min Nan Chinese: Afghanistan
- Min Nan Chinese: Á-hu-gān
- Minangkabau: Afganistan
- Mingrelian: ავღანეთი
- Mirandese: Afeganistan
- Moksha: Афганистан
- Mongolian: Афганистан
- Mongolian: ꯑꯐꯒꯥꯅꯤꯁ꯭ꯇꯥꯟ
- Moroccan Arabic: أفغانستان
- Moroccan Arabic: أفغانيستان
- Mossi: Afghanistan
- N'Ko: ߊߝ
- N'Ko: ߊߝߑߜ߭ߊߣߌߛߑߕߊ߲߫
- Nauru: Apeganitan
- 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: Afghanistan
- Norwegian Bokmål: Afghanistan
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Afghanistan
- Novial: Afganistan
- Occitan (post 1500): Afganistan
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܐܦܓܐܢܣܛܐܢ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Afghanistan
- Oriya: ଆଫଗାନିସ୍ତାନ
- Oriya: ଆଫଗାନିସ୍ତାନ୍
- Oriya: ଆଫାଗାନିସ୍ତାନ୍
- Oromo: Afgaanistaan
- Ossetian: Афгъанистан
- Pali: अफगानस्थान
- Pampanga: Afganistan
- Pampanga: Afghanistan
- Pangasinan: Afghanistan
- Panjabi: ਅਫ਼ਗ਼ਾਨਿਸਤਾਨ
- Panjabi: ਅਫ਼ਗਾਨਿਸਤਾਨ
- Papiamento: Afganistan
- Papiamento: Afganistán
- Pennsylvania German: Afganischtaan
- Persian: Jamhūrī-ye Islāmī-ye Afghānistān
- Persian: افغانستان
- Persian: جمهورئ اسلامئ افغانستان
- Persian: دولتٔ اسلامئ افغانستان
- Piemontese: Afgànistan
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Afganistaan
- Polish: Afganistan
- Portuguese: AFG
- Portuguese: Afeganistão
- Pushto: Dê Afghānistān Islāmī Jumhūriyat
- Pushto: افغانستان
- Pushto: د افغانستان اسلامی جمهوریت
- Quechua: Afganistán
- Quechua: Afgansuyu
- Quechua: Apqanisuyu
- 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: Afganistanas
- Samogitian: Afganėstans
- 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
- Serbo-Croatian: Afghanistan
- Serbo-Croatian: Afɣanistan
- Shan: မိူင်းဢႃႇၾၵၢၼ်ႇၼီႇသတၢၼ်ႇ
- Shona: Afghanistan
- Shona: Afuganistani
- Shona: Afughanistani
- Sicilian: Afganistàn
- Silesian: Afganistan
- Silesian: Afgańistan
- Sindhi: افغانستان
- Sinhala: ඇෆ්ගනිස්ථානය
- Skolt Sami: Afganistaan
- Slovak: Afganistan
- Slovak: Afganská islamská republika
- Slovenian: Afganistan
- Somali: Afgaanistaan
- Somali: Afgaanistan
- South Azerbaijani: افغانیستان
- Spanish: Afganistán
- Spanish: Emirato Islámico de Afganistán
- Sranan Tongo: Afganistan
- Sundanese: Apganistan
- Swahili: Afghanistan
- Swahili: Afuganistani
- Swati: I-Afugani
- Swedish: Afganistan
- Swedish: Afghanistan
- Swiss German: Afghanischtan
- Tachelhit: Afɣanistan
- Tagalog: Afghanistan
- Tagalog: Apganistan
- Tajik: af
- Tajik: Афғонистан
- Tajik: Афғонистон
- Tamil: ஆஃப்கானிஸ்தான்
- Tamil: ஆப்கானித்தான்
- Tamil: ஆப்கானிஸ்தான்
- Taroko: Afghanistan
- Tatar: Äfğanstan
- Tatar: Әфганстан
- Telugu: ఆఫ్ఘనిస్తాన్
- Telugu: ఆఫ్ఘానిస్తాన్
- Tetum: Afeganistaun
- Thai: ประเทศอัฟกานิสถาน
- Thai: อัฟกานิสถาน
- 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
- Tumbuka: Afghanistan
- Tunisian Arabic: أفغانستان
- Turkish: AFG
- Turkish: Afganistan
- Turkish: af
- 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: AFG
- Vietnamese: A Phú Hãn (Afghanistan)
- Vietnamese: A Phú Hãn
- Vietnamese: Afghanistan
- Vietnamese: Apganixtan
- 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: אַפֿגהאַניסטאַן
- Yiddish: אפגאניסטאן
- Yoruba: Afghanístàn
- Yoruba: Orílẹ́ède Àfùgànístánì
- Yoruba: Àfùgànístánì
- Yue Chinese: 阿富汗
- Zeeuws: Afghanistan
- Zhuang: Afghanistan
- Zhuang: Ahfuhan
- Zulu: I-Afganistani
- Zulu: i-Afghanistan
- Afghānestān
- Da Afghānestān Shāhī Dowlat
- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
- Doulat i Jumhouri ye Afghanistan
- Dowlat-e Eslāmī-ye Afghānestān
- Dowlat-e Pādshāhī-ye Afghānestān
- Islamic State of Afghanistan
- Jomhūrī-ye Afghānestān
- Jomhūrī-ye Demowkrātīk-e Afghānestān
- Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Afghānestān
- Kingdom of Afghanistan
- Republic of Afghanistan
- ma Akanisan
- Афгъанистэн
- اَفغٲنِستان
- د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوريت
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