Categories: Afghanistan geography stubs | Provinces of Afghanistan Today Balkh is a small town in the Province of Balkh, Afghanistan, about 20 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital, Mazar-e Sharif, and some 74 km (46 miles) south of the Amu Darya, the Oxus River of antiquity, of which a tributary formerly flowed past Balkh. ... Afghanistan consists of 34 provinces, or velayat: Badakhshan Badghis Baghlan Balkh Bamiyan Daikondi - established March 28, 2004 Farah Faryab Ghazni Ghowr Helmand Herat Jowzjan Kabul Kandahar Kapisa Khost Konar Kondoz Laghman Lowgar Nangarhar Nimruz Nurestan Oruzgan Paktia Paktika Panjshir - established April 13, 2004 Parvan Samangan Sar-e Pol Takhar Vardak... Image File history File links Flag_of_Afghanistan. ... Badakhshan (Persian: بد خشان) is one of the provinces of Afghanistan, consisting of 29 districts. ... Badghis province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Categories: Afghanistan geography stubs | Provinces of Afghanistan ... Bamiyan is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Daikondi province (also spelled Daikundi) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Farah is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Categories: Stub | Provinces of Afghanistan ... Ghazni province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Ghowr (sometimes spelled Ghor) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Helmand province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Herat is a province of Afghanistan; together with Badghis, Farah, and Ghor provinces it makes up the western region of the country. ... Jowzjan province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... Kandahar province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Kapisa is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... A U.S. Marine maintains an overwatch position in the Khost province in Afghanistan Khost province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Kunar province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country and on the border with Pakistan. ... Kunduz is one of the provinces of Afghanistan, centered on the city of Kunduz in Afghanistan, with an area of 7,827 km square, and a population of about 583,000. ... Laghman province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Lowgar is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Nangarhar province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Nimruz province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Nurestan Province (also spelled Nuristan) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Oruzgan is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Paktia province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Paktika is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Panjshir is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Parvan province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Samangan province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Categories: Afghanistan geography stubs | Provinces of Afghanistan ... Takhar is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Vardak province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Zabul, Afghanistan is the only Afghan province in which the Taliban have named (in the post-U.S. invasion of Afghanistan era) their own governor and officials to rival those appointed by the government in Kabul. ...