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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan | |||||||||
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| Motto: lā ʾilāha ʾillà l-Lāh, Muhammadur rasūlu l-Lāh لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله (Arabic) "There is no god but God. Muhammad is the messenger of God." (Shahada) | |||||||||
| Anthem: دا د باتورانو کور Dā də bātorāno kor | |||||||||
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| Capital and largest city | Kabul 33°N 66°E / 33°N 66°E | ||||||||
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| Recognised minority languages |
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| Major sign language | Afghan Sign Language | ||||||||
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| Religion | |||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Afghan[a][7][8] | ||||||||
| Government | Unitary Deobandi Islamic caretaker government under an autocracy[b] | ||||||||
| Hibatullah Akhundzada | |||||||||
| Hasan Akhund (acting) | |||||||||
| Abdul Ghani Baradar (acting) | |||||||||
| Abdul Salam Hanafi (acting) | |||||||||
| Legislature | TBA (as of 2021) | ||||||||
| Formation | |||||||||
| 1709–1738 | |||||||||
| 1747–1842 | |||||||||
• Emirate | 1823–1926 | ||||||||
| 19 August 1919 | |||||||||
• Kingdom | 9 June 1926 | ||||||||
| 17 July 1973 | |||||||||
| 7 September 1996 | |||||||||
| 26 January 2004 | |||||||||
| 15 August 2021 | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• Total | 652,864[10] km2 (252,072 sq mi) (40th) | ||||||||
• Water (%) | negligible | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 2020 estimate | 32,890,171[11] (43rd) | ||||||||
• Density | 48.08/km2 (124.5/sq mi) (174th) | ||||||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2018 estimate | ||||||||
• Total | $72.911 billion[12] (96th) | ||||||||
• Per capita | $2,024[12] (169th) | ||||||||
| GDP (nominal) | 2018 estimate | ||||||||
• Total | $21.657 billion[12] (111st) | ||||||||
• Per capita | $493[12] (177th) | ||||||||
| Gini (2008) |  27.8[13]low · 1st | ||||||||
| HDI (2019) |  0.511[14]low · 169th | ||||||||
| Currency | Afghani (افغانی) (AFN) | ||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+4:30 Solar Calendar (D†) | ||||||||
| Driving side | right | ||||||||
| Calling code | +93 | ||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | AF | ||||||||
| Internet TLD | .af افغانستان. | ||||||||
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Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is a country in Asia. It borders Pakistan in the south and east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast.[15] Kabul is the capital city.
Afghanistan is currently governed by the Taliban, after the collapse of the internationally recognized Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on 15 August 2021. In early times people passed through it with animals and other goods as it connected China and India with Central Asia and the Middle East. More recently, Afghanistan has been damaged by many years of war. There are not enough jobs.
The country is around 251,826 square miles (652,230 square kilometres) in size. There are 40.976 million people in Afghanistan. There are about 3 million Afghan refugees (people who had to leave the country) in Pakistan and Iran. In 2011 Kabul, had about 3,691,400 people living in it.[16]
United Nations Human Rights Council decided in October 2021 to appoint an independent expert, known as a United Nations special rapporteur on Afghanistan, to find out about violations carried out by the Taliban and others who are now part of a big conflict.[17]
- ↑ "BBCNazer.com | زندگى و آموزش | حرف های مردم: سرود ملی". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ↑ Amirzai, Shafiq l. "د ملي سرود تاریخ | روهي". Rohi.Af (in Pashto). Archived from the original on 17 August 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ↑ "ملا فقیر محمد درویش د جهادي ترنم منل شوی سرخیل". نن ټکی اسیا (in Pashto). 16 January 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ↑ Tharoor, Ishaan (19 June 2013). "The Taliban's Qatar Office: Are Prospects for Peace Already Doomed?". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
- ↑ Dictionary.com. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Reference.com (Retrieved 13 November 2007).
- ↑ Dictionary.com. WordNet 3.0. Princeton University. Reference.com (Retrieved 13 November 2007). Archived 28 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Constitution of Afghanistan". 2004. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
- ↑ Afghan | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary. the Cambridge English Dictionary. ISBN 978-1-107-66015-1.
- ↑ Zucchino, David (1 September 2021). "Shifting to Governing, Taliban Will Name Supreme Afghan Leader". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- ↑ Central Statistics Office Afghanistan
- ↑ Central Statistics Office Afghanistan, 2020.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 "Afghanistan". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- ↑ "Gini Index". World Bank. Archived from the original on 11 May 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
- ↑ Human Development Report 2020 The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 15 December 2020. pp. 343–346. ISBN 978-92-1-126442-5. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ↑ "Afghanistan". CIA - The World Factbook. Archived from the original on 9 July 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
- ↑ "Settled Population by Province" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
- ↑ https://www.news18.com/news/world/un-rights-body-agrees-to-establish-investigator-on-afghanistan-4297415.html. Retrieved 7 October 2021
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