Afghanistan

Administrative units

velayat (province)	capital	area (sq.km.)	population 2006 estimate	population 2008-2009 estimate
source: CSO, Afghanistan.
Badakhshan	Faiz Abad	44,059.3	823,000	845,900
Badghis	Qala-i-Now	20,590.6	429,500	441,400
Baghlan	Pul Khumri	21,118.4	779,000	804,000
Balkh	Mazar-i-Sharif	17,248.5	1,096,100	1,144,800
Bamyan	Bamyan	14,175.3	387,300	398,000
Daikondi	Neli	8,088.0	399,600	410,300
Farah	Farah	48,470.9	438,000	456,600
Faryab	Maimana	20,292.8	858,600	884,400
Ghazni	Ghazni	22,914.6	1,062,600	1,092,600
Ghor	Cheghcharan	36,478.8	598,600	614,900
Helmand	Lashkar Gah	58,583.7	799,000	821,800
Herat	Herat	54,778.0	1,578,200	1,642,700
Juzjan	Sheberghan	11,798.3	461,700	476,700
Kabul	Kabul	4,461.6	3,138,100	3,449,800
Kandahar	Kandahar	54,022.0	1,011,700	1,057,500
Kapisa	Mahmood Raqi	1,842.1	382,600	392,900
Khost	Khost	4,151.5	498,000	511,600
Kunarha	Asad Abad	4,941.5	390,200	401,000
Kunduz	Kunduz	8,039.7	851,300	882,900
Laghman	Mehterlam	3,842.6	386,400	396,800
Logar	Pul-i-Alam	3,879.8	339,700	349,000
Maydan-Wardak	Maydan Shahr	8,938.1	517,200	531,200
Nangarhar	Jalal Abad	7,727.4	1,289,000	1,333,500
Nimroz	Zaranj	41,005.4	141,400	139,900
Nooristan	Paroon	9,225.0	128,400	131,900
Paktia	Gardeiz	6,431.7	477,500	490,900
Paktika	Sharan	19,482.4	377,100	387,300
Panjshir	Bazarak	3,610.0	133,200	136,700
Parwan	Charikar	5,974.0	573,100	589,700
Samangan	Aibak	11,261.9	334,800	344,400
Sar-i-Pul	Sar-i-Pul	15,999.2	482,900	496,900
Takhar	Taluqan	12,333.0	845,300	870,900
Urozgan	Terin Kott	22,696.0	303,600	311,900
Zabul	Qalat	17,343.5	263,200	270,600
total		645,806.6	22,575,900	23,511,400