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173 relations: Abdul Latif Pedram, Activism, Afghan Civil War (1996–2001), Afghanistan, Afghanistan–China border, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Aimaq people, Akbar, Almond, Ancient history, Anglo-Afghan War, Arghanj Khwa District, Argo District, Avestan, Badakhshan, Badakhshan University, Baharak District, Badakhshan, Baharak, Afghanistan, Bairam Khan, Baloch people, Barakzai dynasty, British Raj, Burhanuddin Kushkaki, Burhanuddin Rabbani, China, Chitral, Cricket, Darayim District, Dari, Darwaz-e Bala District, De facto, Deserts and xeric shrublands, Districts of Afghanistan, Dorah Pass, Durrani dynasty, Emerald, Farsiwan, Fawzia Koofi, Fayzabad Airport, Fayzabad District, Badakhshan, Fayzabad, Badakhshan, Gemstone, Gilgit-Baltistan, Gorno-Badakhshan, Hazaras, Hindu Kush, Hippophae, Humayun, Ishkashim District, Ishkashim, Afghanistan, ... Expand index (123 more) »
- Provinces of Afghanistan
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Abdul Latif Pedram
Abdul Latīf Pedrām (عبداللطيف پدرام; born 29 July 1963) is a politician and a Member of Parliament in Afghanistan.
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Activism
Activism (or advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.
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Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)
The 1996–2001 Afghan Civil War, also known as the Third Afghan Civil War, took place between the Taliban's conquest of Kabul and their establishing of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on 27 September 1996, and the US and UK invasion of Afghanistan on 7 October 2001: a period that was part of the Afghan Civil War that had started in 1989, and also part of the war (in wider sense) in Afghanistan that had started in 1978.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
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Afghanistan–China border
The Afghanistan–China border is a boundary between Afghanistan and China, beginning at the tripoint of both countries with the Pakistan's federally administered territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, following the watershed along the Mustagh Range, and ending at the tripoint with Tajikistan.
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Ahmad Shah Massoud
Ahmad Shah Massoud (Dari:,; September 2, 1953September 9, 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician.
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Aimaq people
The Aimaq, Aimaq Persians (Aimāq), or Chahar Aimaq (چهار ایماق), also transliterated as Aymaq, Aimagh, Aimak, and Aymak, are a collection of Sunni and mostly Persian nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes.
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Akbar
Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (–), popularly known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar I, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.
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Almond
The almond (Prunus amygdalus, syn. Prunus dulcis) is a species of tree from the genus Prunus.
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Ancient history
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity.
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Anglo-Afghan War
Anglo-Afghan Wars may refer to.
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Arghanj Khwa District
Arghanj Khwa District is a district in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan.
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Argo District
Argo District (/) is one of the 28 districts in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan.
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Avestan
Avestan is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages, Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd to 1st millennium BC) and Younger Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BC).
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Badakhshan
Badakhshan is a historical region comprising parts of modern-day north-eastern Afghanistan, eastern Tajikistan, and Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in China.
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Badakhshan University
Badakhshan University (built in 1996) (پوهنتون بدخشان) is located in Badakhshan province, northeastern Afghanistan.
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Baharak District, Badakhshan
Baharak district is a district of Badakhshan province, Afghanistan located about 30 km southeast of Fayzabad.
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Baharak, Afghanistan
Baharak is a small town and seat of Baharak District Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan.
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Bairam Khan
Muhammad Bairam Khan (18 January 1501 – 31 January 1561), commonly known as Bairam Khan or Bayram Khan was an important military commander, and later commander-in-chief of the Mughal army, a powerful statesman and regent at the court of the Mughal Emperors, Humayun and Akbar.
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Baloch people
The Baloch or Baluch (Balòc) are a nomadic, pastoral, ethnic group which speaks the Western Iranic Baloch language and is native to the Balochistan region of South and Western Asia, encompassing the countries of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.
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Barakzai dynasty
The Barakzai dynasty ("Sons of Barak"), also known as the Muhammadzai dynasty ("the ruling sub-clan of the Barakzai"), ruled modern-day Afghanistan from 1823 to 1978 when the monarchy ended de jure under Musahiban Mohammad Zahir Shah and de facto under his cousin Sardar Mohammad Daoud Khan.
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British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
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Burhanuddin Kushkaki
Burhanuddin Kushkaki (Persian: برهان الدين كشككى - Burhān al-Dīn Kushkakī), also known as Mawlawi Borhan al-Din Khan Koshkaki, (1894–1953) was an Afghan writer, journalist and Islamic scholar.
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Burhanuddin Rabbani
Burhānuddīn Rabbānī (برهانالدین ربانی; 20 September 1940 – 20 September 2011) was an Afghan politician and teacher who served as president of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996, and again from November to December 2001 (in exile from 1996 to 2001).
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Chitral
Chitral (ݯھیترار|lit.
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
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Darayim District
Darayim (Persian: درایم) is a district in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan.
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Dari
Dari (endonym: دری), Dari Persian (فارسی دری,, or), or Eastern Persian is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan.
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Darwaz-e Bala District
Tajik–Afghan Friendship Bridge in Darwazi Bala Darwaz-e Bala, also known as Nusay, is a district in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan.
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De facto
De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.
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Deserts and xeric shrublands
Deserts and xeric shrublands are a biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
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Districts of Afghanistan
The districts of Afghanistan, known as wuleswali (ولسوالۍ, wuləswāləi; Dari: ولسوالی, wuləswālī), are secondary-level administrative units, one level below provinces.
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Dorah Pass
Dorah Pass, also called Durah Pass, connects Badakshan Province of Afghanistan with Lower Chitral District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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Durrani dynasty
The Durrani dynasty (سلسله درانیان; د درانيانو کورنۍ) was founded in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani at Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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Emerald
Emerald is a gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6) colored green by trace amounts of chromium or sometimes vanadium.
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Farsiwan
Fārsīwān (Pashto/فارسیوان or its regional forms: Pārsīwān or Pārsībān,The Encyc. Iranica makes clear in the article on Afghanistan — Ethnography that "The term Farsiwan also has the regional forms Parsiwan and Parsiban. In religion, they are Imami Shia. In literature, they are often mistakenly referred to as Tajik." Online Edition 2006.
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Fawzia Koofi
Fawzia Koofi (فوزیه کوفی,; born in 1975) is an Afghan-Tajik politician, writer, and women's rights activist.
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Fayzabad Airport
Fayzabad Airport is located about northwest of Fayzabad (also spelled Faizabad or Feyzabad), the capital of Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan.
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Fayzabad District, Badakhshan
Fayzabad District (فیضآباد) is one of 30 districts that comprise Badakhshan province, Afghanistan.
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Fayzabad, Badakhshan
Fayzabad also spelled Feyzabad or Faizabad (Fayzâbâd) is a city in northeastern Afghanistan, with a population of around 39,555 people.
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Gemstone
A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished, is used to make jewelry or other adornments.
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Gilgit-Baltistan
Gilgit-Baltistan, formerly known as the Northern Areas, is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative territory and consists of the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959.
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Gorno-Badakhshan
Gorno-Badakhshan, officially the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in eastern Tajikistan, in the Pamir Mountains.
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Hazaras
The Hazaras (Hazāra; Āzrə) are an ethnic group and a principal component of the population of Afghanistan.
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Hindu Kush
The Hindu Kush is an mountain range on the Iranian Plateau in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas.
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Hippophae
Hippophae is the genus of sea buckthorns, deciduous shrubs in the family Elaeagnaceae.
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Humayun
Nasir al-Din Muhammad (6 March 1508 – 27 January 1556), commonly known by his regnal name Humayun, was the second Mughal emperor, who ruled over territory in what is now Eastern Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Northern India, and Pakistan from 1530 to 1540 and again from 1555 to his death in 1556.
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Ishkashim District
Ishkashim District (ولسوالی اشکاشکم) is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Ishkashim, Afghanistan
Ishkashim (اشکاشم; also transliterated Eshkashem or Ashkāsham) is a border town in Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan, which has a population of around 12,120 people.
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Ishkashimi language
Ishkashimi (Ishkashimi: škošmī zəvuk/rənīzəvuk) is an Iranian language spoken by who live predominantly in the Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan and in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in Tajikistan.
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Islamic Revolutionary State of Afghanistan
The Islamic Revolutionary State of Afghanistan (دولت انقلابی اسلامی افغانستان) was a small Salafist Islamic state located in the north of Bashgal Valley, Nuristan Province.
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Isma'ilism
Isma'ilism (translit) is a branch or sect of Shia Islam.
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Jamarj-e Bala
Jamarj-e Bala is a village in the north-eastern Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan, serving as the capital of Maimay District.
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Jamiat-e Islami
Jamayat-E-Islami (also rendered as Jamiat-e-Islami and Jamiati Islami; lit), sometimes shortened to Jamiat, is a predominantly Tajik political party and former paramilitary organisation in Afghanistan.
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Jarf
Jarf is a village and the capital of Shekay District in Badakhshan Province, in north-eastern Afghanistan.
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Jorm, Afghanistan
Jorm (also spelled Jurm) is a village in Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan.
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Juniper
Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae.
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Jurm District
Jurm District (جرم) is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province in northeast Afghanistan.
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Ka'ba-ye Zartosht
Ka'ba-ye Zartosht (کعبه زرتشت), also called the Cube of Zoroaster, is a rectangular stepped stone structure in the Naqsh-e Rustam compound beside Zangiabad village in Marvdasht county in Fars, Iran.
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Kabul
Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.
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Kabul International Airport
Kabul International Airport is located in the northern part of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Karakoram–West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
The Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe is a montane grasslands and shrublands ecoregion found in parts of Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, and India.
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Khandud
Khandud (Khandut) is a river valley in the Wakhan District of Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan.
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Khash District
Khash District is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.
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Khatlon Region
Khatlon Region (Вилояти Хатлон, Viloyati Xatlon), one of the four provinces of Tajikistan (вилоят, Viloyat), is the most populous of the four first level administrative regions.
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Khowar
Khowar (کھووار زبان|translit.
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Khwahan District
Khwahan District is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province, located in northeastern Afghanistan.
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Khwahan, Afghanistan
Khwahan (خواهان) is a town (and a fort) and the capital of Khwahan District, in Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan.
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Kishim District
Kishim District is one of the 29 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan.The district capital is Mashhad.
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Kohistan District, Badakhshan
Kohistan District (Šahrestâne Kuhistân) is one of the 29 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Kuf Ab District
Kuf Ab is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Kuh-e Safed Khers
Kuh-e Safed Khers is a mountain in the Darwaz district of Badakhshan province, Afghanistan.
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Kuran wa Munjan
Kurān wa Munjān, also spelled Kiran wa Munjan (‘Alāqahdārī Kirān wa Munjān) or Koran va Monjan, (کران و منجان) is a village in Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan.
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Kuran wa Munjan District
Kuran wa Munjan (کران و منجان) is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Kyrgyz language
Kyrgyz is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia.
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Kyrgyz people
The Kyrgyz people (also spelled Kyrghyz, Kirgiz, and Kirghiz; or) are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia.
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Languages of Afghanistan
Afghanistan is a linguistically diverse nation, with upwards of 40 distinct languages.
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Lapis lazuli
Lapis lazuli, or lapis for short, is a deep-blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense color.
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List of emperors of the Mughal Empire
The emperors of the Mughal Empire, styled the Emperors of Hindustan, who were all members of the Timurid dynasty (House of Babur), ruled over the empire from its inception in 1526 to its dissolution in 1857.
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List of governors of Badakhshan
The Governor of Badakhshan (Persian: حاکمبدخشان, hākim-i badakhshān) is the head of the government of Badakhshan.
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Lower Chitral District
Lower Chitral District (ضلع چترال زیریں, موڑی ݯھیترارو ضلع, ښکته چترال ولسوالۍ) is a district in Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.
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Maimay District
Maimay, also known as Darwaz-e Payeen, or simply Darwaz, is a district in Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan.
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Makhfi Badakhshi
Sayyida Makhfi-Badakhshi (سیده مخفی بدخشی; 1876–1963); was a poet from Afghanistan.
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Mashhad, Afghanistan
Mashhad (مشهد) is a village in Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan.
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Maternal death
Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined in slightly different ways by several different health organizations.
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Mawlawi (Islamic title)
Mawlawi (translit), rendered in English as Molvi, is an Islamic religious title given to Muslim religious scholars, or ulama, preceding their names, similar to the titles Mawlānā, Mullah, or Sheikh.
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Maziar Kouhyar
Qamaruddin Maziar Kouhyar (Dari: مازیار كوهيار; born 30 September 1997) is an Afghan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Kidderminster Harriers, on loan from club York City, and the Afghanistan national team.
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Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development
The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (د کلیو د بیارغونې او پراختیا وزارت, وزارت بازسازی و انکشاف دهات) (MRRD) is a ministry of the Afghan government.
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Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani
Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (میر سید علی همدانی; CE) was a Sufi Muslim saint of the Kubrawiya order, who played an important role in spread of Islam in Kashmir.
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Miri Maftun
Mir Maftoon (میر مفتون) also written as Mehri Maftun, is an Afghan musician.
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Modified Mercalli intensity scale
The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS) measures the effects of an earthquake at a given location.
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Moment magnitude scale
The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted explicitly with M or or Mwg, and generally implied with use of a single M for magnitude) is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude ("size" or strength) based on its seismic moment.
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Montane grasslands and shrublands
Montane grasslands and shrublands are a biome defined by the World Wildlife Fund.
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Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.
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Mujahideen
Mujahideen, or Mujahidin (mujāhidīn), is the plural form of mujahid (strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad, interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religion or the community (ummah).
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Multinational state
A multinational state or a multinational union is a sovereign entity that comprises two or more nations or states.
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Munji language
The Munji language (مونجی, مونجی), also known as Munjani (مونجانی, مونجی ژبه, Munjani: منجاني ألڤزأن), Munjhan (مونجهان), and the Munjiwar language, is a Pamir language spoken in the Munjan valley in the Kuran wa Munjan district of the Badakhshan province in northeast Afghanistan.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
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Nasir Khusraw
Nasir Khusraw (ناصرخسرو; 1004 – between 1072–1088) was an Isma'ili poet, philosopher, traveler, and missionary for the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate.
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Northern Alliance
The Northern Alliance (ائتلاف شمال E'tilāf Šumāl or اتحاد شمال Ettehād Šumāl), officially known as the United Islamic National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (جبهه متحد اسلامی ملی برای نجات افغانستان Jabha-ye Muttahid-e Islāmī-ye Millī barāye Najāt-e Afğānistān), was a military alliance of groups that operated between early 1992 and 2001 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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Nuristan Province
Nuristan, also spelled as Nurestan or Nooristan (Pashto:; Kamkata-vari: Nuriston), is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. Badakhshan Province and Nuristan Province are provinces of Afghanistan and provinces of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
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Nusay
Nusay or Nusai is a village in Nusay District, Badakhshan Province, northeastern Afghanistan.
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October 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake
The October 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake was a magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck South Asia on 26 October 2015, at 13:39 AFT (14:09 PKT; 14:39 IST; 09:09 UTC) with the epicenter 45 km north of Kuran wa Munjan, Afghanistan, at a depth of 231.0 km.
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Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
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Pamir languages
The Pamir languages are an areal group of the Eastern Iranian languages, spoken by numerous people in the Pamir Mountains, primarily along the Panj River and its tributaries.
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Pamir Mountains
The Pamir Mountains are a range of mountains between Central Asia and South Asia.
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Pamiris
The Pamiris are an Eastern Iranian ethnic group, native to Central Asia, living primarily in Tajikistan (Gorno-Badakhshan), Afghanistan (Badakhshan), Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan) and China (Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County).
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Panjshir Province
Panjshir (Dari:, literally "Five Lions," pronounced /pand͡ʒʃeːɾ/, also spelled as Panjsher) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country containing the Panjshir Valley. Badakhshan Province and Panjshir Province are provinces of Afghanistan and provinces of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
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Papaver somniferum
Papaver somniferum, commonly known as the opium poppy or breadseed poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae.
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Parthian Empire
The Parthian Empire, also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power centered in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD.
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Pashtuns
Pashtuns (translit), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are a nomadic, pastoral, Eastern Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. They historically were also referred to as Afghans until the 1970s after the term's meaning had become a demonym for members of all ethnic groups in Afghanistan.
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Pistachio
The pistachio (Pistacia vera), a member of the cashew family, is a small tree originating in Persia.
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Poverty threshold
The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.
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Provinces of Afghanistan
Afghanistan is divided into 34 provinces (ولايت, wilåyat).
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Qadiriyya
The Qadiriyya or the Qadiri order is a Sufi mystic order (''tariqa'') named after Abdul Qadir Gilani (1077–1166, also transliterated Jilani), who was a Hanbali scholar from Gilan, Iran.
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Qal'eh-ye Kuf
Qaleh-ye Kuf or Qala-e Kuf is a village and Capital District Kuf Ab in Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan.
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Qari Fasihuddin
Qari Fasihuddin Fitrat (Dari/قاري فصیح الدین فطرت) is an Afghan military commander who is the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
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Qizilbash
Qizilbash or Kizilbashitalic (Latin script: qızılbaş); قزيل باش; qizilbāš (modern Iranian reading: qezelbāš); lit were a diverse array of mainly Turkoman "The Qizilbash, composed mainly of Turkman tribesmen, were the military force introduced by the conquering Safavis to the Iranian domains in the sixteenth century." Shia militant groups that flourished in Azerbaijan, Anatolia, the Armenian highlands, the Caucasus, and Kurdistan from the late 15th century onwards, and contributed to the foundation of the Safavid and Afsharid empires in early modern Iran.
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Raghistan District
Raghistan (راغستان) is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan Province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Ruby
Ruby is a pinkish red to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide).
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Rustaq District, Afghanistan
Rustaq District is a district of Takhar Province, northern Afghanistan.
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Sagebrush
Sagebrush is the common name of several woody and herbaceous species of plants in the genus Artemisia.
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Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.
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Shah Badakhshi
Mullah Shah Badakhshi, popularly known as Mullah Shah was a 17th-century Muslim Sufi, and spiritual successor of the famous Sufi saint Mian Mir (1550 – 1635).
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Shahr-e Bozorg
Shahr-e Bozorg is a village and the district capital of Shahri Buzurg District, in Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan.
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Shahri Buzurg District
Shahri Buzurg also spelled as Shahr-e Bozorg (شهر بزرگ) is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Shekay District
Shekay or Shikai is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province in northeastern Afghanistan.
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Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
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Shighnan
Shighnan, also Shignan, Shugnan, Shughnan, and Khughnan (Шуғнон, شغنان, Pashto: شېرخان بندر, Shughni: خُږنۈن, Хуг̌ну̊н, Xuɣ̌nůn), is an historic region whose name today may also refer to a town and a district in Badakhshan Province in the mountainous northeast of Afghanistan and also a district in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan.
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Shighnan District
Shighnan District (-Ноҳияи Шиғнони, Shughni: خُږنۈن ولسوالے) is one of the 28 districts of the Badakhshan Province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Shughni language
Shughni or Khughni is one of the Pamir languages of the Southeastern Iranian language group.
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Shughni people
The Shughni (also known as the Shughnan) (Shughni: xuǧnůni, хуг̌ну̊нӣ, خُږنۈنے) are an Iranian sub-ethnic group of Pamiris, who reside in the Pamir Mountains of the Badakhshan region of Central Asia.
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Shuhada District
Shuhada (شهدا) is one of the 29 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Soviet–Afghan War
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.
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Sufism
Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism and asceticism.
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Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
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Tagab District, Badakhshan
Tagab (تگاب) is one of the 29 districts of Badakhshan province in Afghanistan.
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Tahir Badakhshi
Taher Badakhshi (October 30, 1933 – October 30, 1979) (طاهر بدخشی) has been a cultural and political personality in Afghanistan.
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Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Tajikistan
Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia.
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Tajiks
Tajiks (Tājīk, Tājek; Tojik) are a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group native to Central Asia, living primarily in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
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Takhar Province
Takhar (Persian) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeast of the country next to Tajikistan. Badakhshan Province and Takhar Province are provinces of Afghanistan and provinces of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
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Taliban
The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.
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Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands is a terrestrial biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
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Tishkan District
Tishkan (تیشکان) is one of the 29 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Turkmens
Turkmens (Türkmenler, italic,,; historically "the Turkmen") are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia, living mainly in Turkmenistan, northern and northeastern regions of Iran and north-western Afghanistan.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.
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Upper Chitral District
Upper Chitral District (ضلع چترال بالا)(توری ݯھیترارو ضلع)(پورتنۍ چترال ولسوالۍ) is a district in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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Ustad Ahmad Lahori
Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580–1649) also known as Ahmad Ma'mar Lahori was the chief Mughal architect and engineer during the reign of emperor Shah Jahan.
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Uzbeks
The Uzbeks (Oʻzbek, Ўзбек,, Oʻzbeklar, Ўзбеклар) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the wider Central Asian region, being among the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area.
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Wakhan Corridor
The Wakhan Corridor (translit; translit) is a narrow strip of territory in the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan.
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Wakhan District
Wakhan (واخان) is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Wakhi language
Wakhi (Wakhi: وخی/В̌aхi, IPA: waχi) is an Indo-European language in the Eastern Iranian branch of the language family spoken today in Wakhan District, Northern Afghanistan, and also in Tajikistan, Northern Pakistan and Western China.
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Wakhi people
The Wakhi people (ښیک مردمِش, Waxiēn, مردمان وخی; Ваханцы), also locally referred to as the Wokhik, are an Iranian ethnic group native to Central and South Asia.
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Walnut
A walnut is the edible seed of any tree of the genus Juglans (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, Juglans regia.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Willow
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus Salix, comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions.
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Woodland
A woodland is, in the broad sense, land covered with woody plants (trees and shrubs), or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the plurale tantum woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (see differences between British, American and Australian English explained below).
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Wurduj District
Wurduj (وردوج) is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Xinjiang
Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia.
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Yaftali Sufla District
Yaftal Sufla is one of the 29 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Yamgan District
Yamgan (یمگان) is one of the 29 districts of Badakhshan Province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Yawan District
Yawan (یاوان) is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan.
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Yidgha-Munji people
The Yidgha-Munji people (مردمې مونجی وې یدغا) also known as Mukhbani (مُخبانی) are the Iranian-Pamiri peoples inhabiting the Lotkoh Valley in Chitral (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and Kuran wa Munjan District in Badakhshan in both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Zalmai Mujadidi
Alhaj Abdul-Azeem Zulmay Mujadidi (الحاج زلمی مجددی, born 1958) is a member of the Afghan Lower House of Parliament from the Badakhshan Province and one of President Hamid Karzai's most loyal followers in the northeast of Afghanistan.
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Zebak District
Zebak (زیبک) is one of the 29 districts of Badakhshan province in northeastern Afghanistan.
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Zebak, Afghanistan
Zebak (زيباك or زیباک) (also Zibak or Zebok) is the capital of the Zebak District in the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan.
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Ziraki, Badakhshan
Ziraki is a village and the capital of Raghistan District in Badakhshan Province in northeastern Afghanistan.
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Zoroaster
Zarathushtra Spitama more commonly known as Zoroaster or Zarathustra, was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion, becoming the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism.
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Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism (Din-e Zartoshti), also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin, is an Iranian religion.
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2021 Taliban offensive
The 2021 Taliban offensive was a military offensive by the Taliban insurgent group and allied militants that led to the fall of the Kabul-based Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the end of the nearly 20-year War in Afghanistan that had begun following the United States invasion of the country.
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See also
Provinces of Afghanistan
- Badakhshan Province
- Badghis Province
- Baghlan Province
- Balkh Province
- Bamyan Province
- Daykundi Province
- Farah Province
- Faryab Province
- Ghazni Province
- Ghor Province
- Helmand Province
- Herat Province
- ISO 3166-2:AF
- Jowzjan Province
- Kabul Province
- Kandahar Province
- Kapisa Province
- Khost Province
- Kunar Province
- Kunduz Province
- Laghman Province
- Logar Province
- Maidan Wardak Province
- Nangarhar Province
- Nimruz Province
- Nuristan Province
- Paktia Province
- Paktika Province
- Panjshir Province
- Parwan Province
- Provinces of Afghanistan
- Samangan Province
- Sar-e Pol Province
- Takhar Province
- Urozgan Province
- Uruzgan Province
- Zabul Province
Provinces of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Badakhshan Province
- Badghis Province
- Baghlan Province
- Balkh Province
- Bamyan Province
- Daykundi Province
- Farah Province
- Faryab Province
- Ghazni Province
- Ghor Province
- Helmand Province
- Herat Province
- Jowzjan Province
- Kabul Province
- Kandahar Province
- Kapisa Province
- Khost Province
- Kunar Province
- Kunduz Province
- Laghman Province
- Logar Province
- Maidan Wardak Province
- Nangarhar Province
- Nimruz Province
- Nuristan Province
- Paktia Province
- Paktika Province
- Panjshir Province
- Parwan Province
- Samangan Province
- Sar-e Pol Province
- Takhar Province
- Uruzgan Province
- Zabul Province
References
Also known as Badakhshān Province, Badakshan Province, List of cities, towns and villages in Badakshan Province.