Map of the Kingdom of Caboul, published in 1838 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The name Caboul was attributed to all the current territories of Afghanistan

Kabulistan (Persian: کابلستان‎ ) is an old term referred to the eastern territories of Khorasan centered in today's Kabul city. It is reported as Caboul in many old English and French books. Persian (Local names: فارسی Fârsi or پارسی Pârsi)* is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well as by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... Nader Afshars tomb in Mashad. ... For other places with the same name, see Kabul (disambiguation). ...

Kabulistan covered modern-day Kabul, Kapisa, Peshawar 1, Jalalabad 2 and even reaching to Chitral in the east and Ghazni in the west. Kapisa is one of 34 provinces in Afghanistan. ... Peshāwar (Pashto: پښور; Urdu:پشاور) literally means City on the Frontier in Persian and is known as Pakhawar in Pashto. ... Jalalabad (Persian: Jalālābād, 34°31′N 70°31′E) is the capital of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, 150 km east of Kabul near the Khyber Pass and west of the Kunar River. ... Chitral Valley and Tirich Mir, 7,708 m (25,289 ft) Chitral, or Chitrāl (Urdu: چترال), is the name of a town , valley, river, district, and former princely state in the former Malakand Division of the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. ... Ghazni (Persian: غزنی , Ğaznī) is a city in eastern Afghanistan, with an estimated population of 149,998 people. ...

In most of the English and French books from 18th to 20th centuries, almost all the regions of today's Afghanistan was known as Caboul and its kingdom was called Kingdom of Caboul. The word Afghanistan was attributed to the southern parts of modern-day Afghanistan inhabited by Pashtuns which is today known as Pashtunistan. The Pashtuns (also Pushtun, Pakhtun, or ethnic Afghan; in referring to the period of the British Raj or earlier, sometimes Pathan) are an ethnic/religious group of people, living primarily in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India who follow Pashtunwali, their indigenous religion. ... Pashtunistan (Pashto, Persian: پشتونستان) or Pakhtunistan (Pashto, Persian: پختونستان), is what many Pashtun nationalists call the Pashtun-dominated areas of Pakistan. ...

Other old terms for the different regions of Persia are Zabulistan^[1], Sijistan, Balochistan, Takharistan, etc. For other uses of this term see: Persia (disambiguation) The Persian Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran). ... Zabulistan is a historical region in Central Asia, in the border area of the todays Iran and Afghanistan. ... Categories: Iran geography stubs | Provinces of Iran ... Categories: Iran geography stubs | Provinces of Iran ... Tokharistan is a name which was given to Bactria, following its settlement by various Central Asian people in the 2nd century BCE. The first literary mentions of Thokaristan appear at the end of the 4th century CE in Chinese Buddhist sources (the Vibhasa-sastra). ...

In some periods Kabulistan had its own independent kingdoms; e.g. Kabul-Shahan who built a defensive wall around the Kabul city when the Muslim invasions reached Khorasan.

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