Kabul
Kabul has been the capital of Afghanistan since about 1776. The city was badly damaged during the various wars since 1979, particularly its western parts.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: SiarFisher, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Arg
Government office
Photo: U.S. Secretary of Defense, Public domain.
34°31′25″N 69°10′44″E / 34.52361°N 69.17889°E The Arg is the presidential palace of Afghanistan, located in Kabul.
Ghazi Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ghazi Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in eastern Kabul, Afghanistan, which is mainly used for association football matches.
Kabul City Centre
Shopping centre
Kabul City Center is a shopping mall in Shahr-e Naw, Kabul, Afghanistan.
Kabul
- Type: City with 3,290,000 residents
- Description: capital and the largest city of Afghanistan
- Categories: capital city, big city, million city and locality
- Location: Kabul District, Kabul, East Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.526° or 34° 31' 34" northLongitude
69.1777° or 69° 10' 40" eastPopulation
3,290,000Elevation
1,798 metres (5,899 feet)IATA airport code
KBLUnited Nations Location Code
AF KBLOpen Location Code
8J6FG5GH+C3OpenStreetMap ID
node 21716195OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1138958Wikidata ID
Q5838Kabul Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Kabul
- Achinese: Kabul
- Afar: Kabul
- Afrikaans: Kaboel
- Akan: Kabul
- Albanian: Kabuli
- Amharic: ካቡል
- Arabic: Kabul
- Arabic: كابل
- Arabic: كابول
- Aragonese: Kabul
- Armenian: Քաբուլ
- Armenian: Քապուլ
- Arpitan: Caboul
- Asturian: Kabul
- Awadhi: काबुल
- Azerbaijani: Kabil
- Balinese: Kabul
- Bashkir: Кабул
- Bashkir: Ҡабул
- Basque: Kabul
- Belarusian: Кабул
- Bengali: কাবুল
- Bosnian: Kabul
- Brahui: Kábul
- Breton: Kaboul
- Bulgarian: Кабул
- Burmese: ကဘူးလ်မြို့
- Catalan: Kabul
- Cebuano: Kabul
- Central Bikol: Kabul
- Central Kurdish: کابول
- Chechen: Кабул
- Chinese: Kabul
- Chinese: 喀布尔/喀布爾
- Chinese: 喀布尔
- Chinese: 喀布爾
- Chinese: 喀波耳
- Chinese: 贸易中枢
- Chinese: 贸易中枢城
- Chuvash: Кабул
- Crimean Tatar: Kabil
- Croatian: Kabul
- Czech: Kábul
- Danish: Kabul
- Dimli (individual language): Kabil
- Dotyali: काबुल
- Dutch: Kaboel
- Dutch: Kabul
- Eastern Mari: Кабул
- Egyptian Arabic: كابل
- Egyptian Arabic: مدينه كابل
- English: Cabool
- English: Cabul
- English: Caubul
- English: Kabol
- Esperanto: Kabulo
- Estonian: Kabul
- Faroese: Kabul
- Fiji Hindi: Kabul
- Finnish: Kabul
- French: Kaboul
- Galician: Cabul - کابل
- Galician: Cabul
- Georgian: ქაბული
- German: Kabul
- 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: カブール
- Japanese: カーブル
- Javanese: Kabul
- Kabiyè: Kabuli
- Kabyle: Kabul
- Kalaallisut: Kabul
- Kannada: ಕಾಬುಲ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Qabul
- Kazakh: Кабул
- Khmer: ទីក្រុងកាបូល
- Kikuyu: Kabul
- Kinyarwanda: Kabul
- Kirghiz: Кабул
- Korean: 카불
- Kurdish: Kabûl
- Ladin: Kabul
- Lao: Kabul
- Latin: Cabura
- Latvian: Kabula
- Ligurian: Kabul
- Lingala: Kabul
- Lingua Franca Nova: Kabul
- Lithuanian: Kabulas
- 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
- Mingrelian: ქაბული
- Moksha: Кабул
- Mongolian: Кабул
- Mongolian: ᠻᠠᠪᠦ᠋᠋ᠯ
- Mongolian: ꯀꯥꯕꯨꯜ
- Moroccan Arabic: كابول
- Nauru: Kabul
- Nepali: काबुल
- Northern Frisian: Kabul
- Northern Sami: Kabul
- Norwegian: Kabul
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kabul
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kabul
- Novial: Kabul
- Occitan (post 1500): Kabol
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Cabura
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Cabūl
- 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: Кабул
- 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
- 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
- Kabura
- Kubha
- Kābol
Other Places Named Kabul
In the Area
Kabul is situated close to the suburb 2nd District and the quarter Baghi Ali Mardan.
- Old City KabulQuarter
- 1st DistrictSuburb
- Shar-i-NawNeighbourhood
- 3rd MicrorayanLocality
- 10th DistrictSuburb
- Kārte ParwānNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Kabul. Photo: SiarFisher, CC BY-SA 3.0.