General info

Entity:
Afghanistan
Capital:
Kabul
Population (2010-07-01):
29,121,286 (CIA)
Area:
647,500 sq.km.
Country code:
af
Region:
South-central Asia

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

Main cities

name population
2004
estimate
Kabul 2,435,400
Herat 335,200
Kandahar 311,800
Mazar-i-Sharif 288,700
Jalal Abad 162,000
Kunduz 112,800
Pul Khumri 83,900
Maimana 65,100
Sheberghan 63,500
Taluqan 56,900
source: CSO, Afghanistan.