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CapitalKabul
Population43.8M
CurrencyAfghan afghani (؋)
LanguagesDari, Pashto, Turkmen
TimezoneUTC+04:30
Area652,230 km²
ContinentAsia
Driving SideRight
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Overview

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east.

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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.

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Operation Anaconda
Battlefields

Operation Anaconda

Operation Anaconda was a military operation that took place in early March 2002 as part of the War in Afghanistan. CIA paramilitary officers, working with their allies, attempted to destroy al-Qaeda and Taliban forces.

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Hadda
Historic

Hadda

Haḍḍa (Pashto: هډه‎) is a Greco-Buddhist archeological site located ten kilometers south of the city of Jalalabad, in the Nangarhar Province of eastern Afghanistan.Hadda is said to have been almost entirely destroyed in the fighting during the civil war in Afghanistan.Some 23,000 Greco-Budd…

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Tapa Shotor
Religious Site

Tapa Shotor

Tapa Shotor, also Tape Shotor or Tapa-e-shotor ("Camel Hill"), was a large Greco-Buddhist monastery near Hadda, Afghanistan, and is now an archaeological site.

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Bimaran casket
Other

Bimaran casket

The Bimaran casket or Bimaran reliquary is a small gold reliquary for Buddhist relics that was found inside the stupa no.2 at Bimaran, near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan.When it was found by the archaeologist Charles Masson during his work in Afghanistan between 1833 and 1838, the casket containe…

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Gurdwara Karte Parwan
Religious Site

Gurdwara Karte Parwan

Karte Parwan Gurdwara in the Karte Parwan section of Kabul, Afghanistan, is one of the main Gurdwaras in the region. Gurdawara means the Gateway to the Guru, and is a place of worship for Sikhs.There were thousands of Sikhs living in Kabul before the Soviet–Afghan War and Afghan Civil War (1992–…

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Sherpur Cantonment
Cemeteries

Sherpur Cantonment

Sherpur Cantonment, or the British Cemetery, is located in Kabul, Afghanistan. The area was a British military camp or cantonment and the site of the 1879 Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment in the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

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Fall of Kabul
Battlefields

Fall of Kabul

Taliban forces took control of Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul on 15 August 2021 during a military offensive against the Afghan government that had begun in May 2021. The capture took place hours after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.

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Kabul Zoo
Urban

Kabul Zoo

The Kabul Zoo (Dari: باغوحش کابل‎), is located in Kabul, Afghanistan, on the bank of the Kabul River and adjacent to the Deh Mazang Circle. The zoo's director is Aziz Gul Saqeb.It was inaugurated in 1967 with a focus on Afghan fauna, being very popular with visitors and press.

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Bala Hissar
Fortifications

Bala Hissar

Bala Hissar (lit. 'High Fort') is an ancient fortress located in the south of the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan. The estimated date of construction is around the 5th century AD. Bala Hissar sits to the south of the modern city centre at the tail end of the Kuh-e-Sherdarwaza Mountain.

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Kabul hoard
Historic

Kabul hoard

The Kabul hoard, also called the Chaman Hazouri, Chaman Hazouri or Tchamani-i Hazouri hoard, is a coin hoard discovered in the vicinity of Kabul, Afghanistan in 1933. The collection contained numerous Achaemenid coins as well as many Greek coins from the 5th and 4th centuries BCE.

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National Archives
Cultural

National Archives

The National Archives of Afghanistan are located in Kabul and were established in 1890.List of national archives

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Abdul Rahman Mosque
Religious Site

Abdul Rahman Mosque

The Abdul Rahman Mosque (Dari: مسجد عبدالرحمان; Pashto: د عبدالرحمان جومات‎), also known as the Grand Mosque of Kabul, is one of the largest mosques in Afghanistan.

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