Afghanistan
Afghanistan is a landlocked Central Asian nation defined by the Hindu Kush mountains, ancient Silk Road cities, and extraordinary hospitality.
Cities & regions
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Balkh is the small town in northern Afghanistan that sits inside the walls of what the Arabs called the Mother of All Cities. Twenty-four to thirty kilometre…
Open guideGhazni is a highland city in east-central Afghanistan, capital of Ghazni Province, sitting on the A1 highway between Kabul and Kandahar. For two centuries fr…
Open guideHerat is Afghanistan's western capital, sitting on the Hari Rud plain close to the Iranian border, and it is the most beautiful and most Persian of the count…
Open guideJalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan, sitting at the junction of the Kabul and Kunar rivers roughly 150 km east of Kabul and…
Open guideKabul is Afghanistan's capital and largest city, spread across a valley at about 1,800 metres in the Hindu Kush and ringed by bare brown mountains whose slop…
Open guideKandahar is Afghanistan's second-largest city, capital of Kandahar Province in the arid south, and the spiritual capital of the Pashtun world. Settlements he…
Open guideKunduz is the capital of Kunduz Province in northern Afghanistan and the economic hub of the country's northeast, built on irrigated farmland fed by the Kund…
Open guideMazar-i-Sharif is the largest city of northern Afghanistan, capital of Balkh Province, sitting on the flat Central Asian steppe about 60 km from the Uzbek bo…
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