The following are politically, geographically or economically important places, many of which are cities, of Afghanistan. The populations given are those “calculated” for 2004 taken from this website, which also shows population change since 1979.

• Kabul - 3,267,056
• Kandahar (Qandahar) - 381,167
• Mazar-e-Sharif - 291,950
• Herat - 267,448
• Jalalabad - 192,043
• Kunduz - 157,093
• Ghazni - 136,338
• Bamiyan - 119,556
• Baghlan - 105,090
• Balh - 104,376

A view of the old city Kabul Kabul (, Kâbl, in Persian کابل) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan with a population variously estimated at 2 to 4 million. ... For the 2001 movie by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, see Kandahar (film). ... Mazār-e Sharīf, also known as Mazar-e-Sharif, Mazar-i Sharif and Mazar-i-Sharif (in Persian مزار شریف), is a city in northern Afghanistan and the capital of Balkh province. ... Court of the Friday Mosque in Herāt. ... Jalalabad (Persian: Jalālābād) is the capital of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, 150 km east of Kabul near the Khyber Pass. ... President Celal Bayar, King Zahir and Lord Serwar Nasher inspecting the once world-renown cotton of Kunduz Spinzar factory Kunduz (قندوز) is a city in Afghanistan; the name has also sometimes been rendered as Kûnduz, Qonduz, Qondûz, Konduz, Kondûz, Kondoz, or Qhunduz. ... Minaret, July 2001 Ghazni is a city in central Afghanistan, situated on a plateau at 7280 feet above sea level. ... Bamiyan province is one of the thirty_four provinces of Afghanistan. ... The city of Baghlan was established in Afghanistan in approximately 1960. ... Today Balkh (Persian: بلخ) 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. ...

See also

• Places in Afghanistan

Kabul Nangarhar Ghazni Herat Helmand Ghoor Balkh Paktia Paktika Bamyaan Badakhshaan Zabul Logar Wardak Parwan Monkton Qaleh-Naw Asabad Nergh Laghman The following are politically, geographically or economically notable places in Afghanistan. ...

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