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1. Badakhshan is a region comprising parts of northeastern Afghanistan and
of Tajikistan.Badakhshan province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan .It is in the east of the country. |
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2.Badghis province ("home of the winds") is one of the thirty-four Afghanistan
.It is located on the northwest of Afghanistan, between the Murghab and Han Rud rivers, extending as far northward as the
edge of the desert of Sarakhs. |
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3.Baghlan province is one of the thirty-four province
of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Pol-e Khomri, but its name comes from Baghlan |
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4.Balkh province is one of the thirty-four province
of Afghanistan.It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Maza-e Sharif. |
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5.Bamiyan province is one of the thirty-four province
of Afghanistan .It is in the centre of the country. Its capital city is also called Bamiyan. Bamiyan city is the largest city
in the Hazarajat region of Afghanistan, and is the cultural capital of the ethnic group that predominates in the area. |
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6.Farah province is one of the thirty-four province of Afghanistan . It is in the west of the country. Its capital is Farah |
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7.Faryab province is one of the thirty-four
province of Afghanistan.It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Meymaneh. |
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8.Ghazni province is one of the thirty-four province of Afghanistan.It
is in the west of the country. Its capital is Ghazni. |
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9.Ghowr province is one of the thirty-four province of Afghanistan
.It is in the west of the country. Its capital is Chaghcharan. |
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10.Helmand province is one of the thirty-four province of Afghanistan
.It is in the south-west of the country. Its capital is Lashkar Gah. |
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11.Herat is a province of Afghanistan .together with Badghis, Farah, and Ghor provinces
it makes up the western region of the country. Its primary city and administrative capital is also named Herat, and
its proximity to Iran makes it a sensitive area as Iran seeks to protect its interests in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
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12. Jowzjan province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Sheberghan. |
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13.Kabul province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the east of the
country. Its capital is Kabul |
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14.Kandahar province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the south of the country. Its capital is Kandahar. |
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15.Kapisa province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the east of the country. Its capital is Mahmud-i-Raqi |
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16.Khost province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the south-east of the country. Its capital is Khost .
It used to be part of Paktia province. |
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17.Konar province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the east of the country. Its capital is Asadabad. |
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18.The Kunduz province is a province around the city of Kunduz in Afghanistan ,with an area of 7,827
km square, and a population of about 583,000 |
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19.Laghman province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the east of the
country. Its capital is Mehtar Lam |
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20.Lowgar province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the east of the
country. Its capital is Pol-e Alam. |
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21.Nangarhar province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the east of the country. Its capital is Jalalabad . |
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22.Nimruz province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the south-west
of the country. Its capital is Zaranj. |
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23. Nurestan province is one of the
thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan . It is in the east of the country. Its capital is Nurestan. It was formed in 2001from
the northern parts of Laghman province and Konar province. |
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24.Oruzgan province is one of the thirty-four province of Afghanistan . It
is in the centre of the country. Its capital is Tarin Kowt. On March 28, 2004, the new Daikondi province was carved out of
an area in the north. The map shows the former provincial boundaries. |
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25.Paktia province is one of the thirty-four provinces
of Afghanistan . It is in the east of the country. Its capital is Gardiz. It used to cover Khost province .which was split
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26.Paktika province is one of the thirty-four provinces
of Afghanistan .It is in the south-east of the country. Its capital is Sharan. It lies in the ancient smugglers range, the
Hindu Kush. |
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27.Parvan province is one of the thirty-four provinces
of Afghanistan It is in the east of the country. Its capital is Charikat. |
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28.Samangan province is one of the
thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan .It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Samangan. |
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29.Sar-e Pol province is one of the
thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan .It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Sar-e Pol . |
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30.Takhar province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan
.It is in the north-east of the country. Its capital is Taloqan. |
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31.Vardak province is
one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan . It is in the centre of the country. Its capital is Meydan Shahr. |
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32.Zabul province. Afghanistan
is the only Afghan province in which the Taliban have namaed ( in the post-U.S. invasion of Afghansitan era ) their
own governor and officials to rival those appointed by the government in Kabul |
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33.Panjshir province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan
.It was established April 13, 2004 Its population is 307,620, and its area is 3,610 square kilometers |
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34.Daikondi province [ also spelt Daikundi ]is one of the thirty-four
provinces of Afghanistan It was established March 28,2004 The region had previously been an isolated district of
Urozgan province . | |
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