Currency:
Afghani (
افغانى) (
AFN)
Time zone:
UTC+4:30,
Lunar Hijri calendarThe Hijri calendaralso known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to determine the proper days of Islamic holidays and rituals, such as the annual fasting and the annual season for the great pilgrimage. In almost all countries where the predominant religion is Islam, the civil calendar is the Gregorian calendar, with Syriac month-names used in the Levant and Mesopotamia, but the religious calendar is the Hijri one. (
Afghanistan TimeAfghanistan Time
The time in Afghanistan follows a single standard time offset of UTC+04:30, even though the country spans almost two geographical time zones.)
DSTDaylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The typical implementation of DST is to set clocks forward by one hour in spring or late winter, and to set clocks back by one hour to standard time in the autumn (or fall in North American English, hence the mnemonic: "spring forward and fall back"). is not observed
Calling code: (
+93)
Organizations: United Nations
Border countries (6):
China 91 km (57 mi).
Iran 921 km (572 mi),
Pakistan 2,670 km (1,660 mi),
Tajikistan 1,357 km (843 mi),
Turkmenistan 804 km (500 mi),
Uzbekistan 144 km (89 mi).
Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)
Afghanistan is divided into (34) provinces (welayat, singular - welayat):
Badakhshan, Badghis, Baghlan, Balkh, Bamyan, Daykundi, Farah, Faryab, Ghazni, Ghor, Helmand, Herat, Jowzjan, Kabul, Kandahar, Kapisa, Khost, Kunar, Kunduz, Laghman, Logar, Nangarhar, Nimroz, Nuristan, Paktika, Paktiya, Panjshir, Parwan, Samangan, Sar-e Pul, Takhar, Uruzgan, Wardak, Zabul.
Natural resources: natural gas,
petroleum,
coal,
copper,
chromite,
talc,
barites,
sulfur,
lead,
zinc,
iron ore,
salt,
precious,
semiprecious stone, and arable land.
Interesting facts: - Buzkashi, meaning "goat grabbing", is the national sport of Afghanistan.
- Gudiparan Bazi or Kite Flying (Kite Fighting) is a popular sport in Afghanistan.