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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. Occupying 652,864 square kilometers (252,072 sq mi) of land, the country is predominantly mountainous with plains in the north and the southwest, which are separated by the Hindu Kush mountain range. Kabul is the country's capital and largest city. Afghanistan's population is estimated to be between 35 and 50 million.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED
These are English demonyms for people from Afghanistan. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.
Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS
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An empire centered in Iran; parts of these modern countries were held at different times, not for its entire lifespan.
Ancient accounts describe an eagle standard. Modern flag reconstructions should not be mistaken for a surviving national flag.
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BEYOND THE MAP
Places and things the general-knowledge library connects to Afghanistan. Open one to follow its connections, then practise them with typed recall.
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| Kabul capital | 4,434,550 |
| Herāt | 574,300 |
| Mazār-e Sharīf | 523,300 |
| Kandahār | 523,300 |
| Jalālābād | 271,900 |
Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.
Theocratic.
arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers
Landlocked. Northern hemisphere.
Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: languages, official languages.
