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Provinces of Afghanistan

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Provinces of Afghanistan
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The provinces of Afghanistan (ولايت wilāyat) are the primary administrative divisions. Afghanistan is divided into 34 provinces. Each province encompasses a number of districts or usually over 1,000 villages.

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Provincial governors played a critical role in the reconstruction of the Afghan state following the creation of the new government under Hamid Karzai.[1] According to international security scholar Dipali Mukhopadhyay, many of the provincial governors of the western-backed government were former warlords who were incorporated into the political system.[1]

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Provinces of Afghanistan

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Administrative

The following table lists the province, capital, number of districts, UN region, region, ISO 3166-2:AF code and license plate code.[2]

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Demographic

The following table lists the province, population in 2024,[3][4] area in square kilometers[2] and population density.

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Regions of Afghanistan

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Blue : North
Red: Central
Green : South

The following tables summarize data from the demographic table.[3]

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UN regions

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UN regions of Afghanistan
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Former provinces of Afghanistan

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Historical provinces of Afghanistan

During Afghanistan's history it had a number of provinces in it. It started out as just Kabul, Herat, Qandahar, and Balkh but the number of provinces increased and by 1880 the provinces consisted of Balkh, Herat, Qandahar, Ghazni, Jalalabad, and Kabul.[5]

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