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Afghanistan (افغانستان)
Official name: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Also known as: د افغانستان اسلامي امارت (Pashto), Də Afġānistān Islāmī Imārat, امارت اسلامی افغانستان (Dari), Imārat-i Islāmī-yi Afğānistān
Area of Afghanistan: 652,867 km² (252,073 mi²) (42th)
Population of Afghanistan: 42,647,492 (36nd) - (2024 est.)
Location: Central Asia / South Asia
Languages of Afghanistan: DariDari, Dari Persian, or Eastern Persian is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the Afghan government's official term for the Persian language; it is known as Afghan Persian or Eastern Persian in many Western sources. The decision to rename the local variety of Persian in 1964 was more political than linguistic to support an Afghan state narrative. Dari Persian is most closely related to Tajiki Persian as spoken in Tajikistan and the two share many phonological and lexical similarities. Apart from a few basics of vocabulary, there is little difference between formal written Persian of Afghanistan and Iran; the languages are mutually intelligible. Dari is the official language for approximately 30.6 million people in Afghanistan and it serves as the common language for inter-ethnic communication in the country. (official) 78%, PashtoPashto is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan and the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani. (official) 50%, Uzbeki 10%, English 5%, Turkmani 2%, Urdu 2%, Pashaie 1%, Nuristani 1%, Arabic 1%, and Balochi 1%, (2021 est.)
Religions of Afghanistan: Muslim 99.9% [Sunni (official) 89.1%, Shia 10.8%], other 0.1% - (2020 est.)
Currency: Afghani (افغانى) (AFN)
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.
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)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
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)
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.
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