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Afghanistan

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan · افغانستان
Asia · Southern Asia

0Population

652.23Kkm² of land

$507GDP / person

KabulCapital

ISO codes: AF · AFG
Density: 58 /km²
Languages: Dari, Pashto, Turkmen
Currency: Afghan afghani (AFN)
Dial code: +93
Internet domain: .af
Time zones: 1
Coastline: Landlocked
Map centre: 34.1640° N, 66.4970° E
Demonym: Afghan
UN region: Southern Asia
Economy: Least developed region
Income group: Low income
Total GDP: $19.29B
Sovereignty: Independent · UN member
Borders: 6

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By the numbers

How Afghanistan stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.

Population

37th

of 242 · 0.50% of world population

Land area

42nd

of 242 · 0.43% of world land

GDP per person

231st

richest of 242 by output per person

Population density

145th

most crowded of 242

Ten facts about Afghanistan

The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.

1

Landlocked and mountainous, with the Hindu Kush running through its centre and the Wakhan Corridor reaching east to touch China.

2

Population is about 38,041,754 people, the 37th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.5 per cent of everyone alive.

3

Covers 652,230 km², making it the 42nd largest country here - about 7.1 times the size of Portugal.

4

Population density is about 58 people per km².

5

The capital is Kabul, at 34.52° N, 69.18° E, with a metropolitan population of about 3,277,000.

6

Shares land borders with 6 countries: Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (and 1 more).

7

Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.

8

Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Kabul.

9

The currency is the Afghan afghani (AFN, symbol ؋).

10

Has 3 official languages: Dari, Pashto and Turkmen.

Local time

Live, from PHP's IANA database.

Asia/Kabul

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UTC+04:30

Cities

The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.

1 ★ Kabul Kabul 34.5186° N, 69.1813° E 3.28M

2 Kandahar Kandahar 31.6100° N, 65.6949° E 715.54K

3 Herat Hirat 34.3300° N, 62.1700° E 481.01K

4 Mazar-i-Sharif Balkh 36.7000° N, 67.1000° E 458.15K

Land neighbours

6 countries share a border with Afghanistan.