Afghanistan
Afghanistan (officially Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) is a country in Southern Asia, with its capital at Kabul, and is home to roughly 42.6M people.
Its official languages are Dari, Pashto, Turkmen; the currency in circulation is Afghan afghani (؋); people from here are called Afghan.
- »The Wakhan Corridor, the thin finger of land reaching east toward China, was drawn in the 1890s purely to keep the Russian and British empires from sharing a border.
Afghanistan touches six neighbours: China to the east, Iran to the west, Pakistan to the southeast, Tajikistan to the northeast, Turkmenistan to the northwest and Uzbekistan to the north. Directions run from one centre to the other. Neighbours in six different compass directions make this one of the better-connected outlines in the set.
Kabul sits in a valley ringed by the Hindu Kush at around 1,800 m, one of the highest capitals in the world, and has been a strategic prize on the routes between Central and South Asia for millennia.
641,133 km² (247,543 sq mi), 40th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of South Sudan.
Population 42,647,492, 36th of 198 on file. That averages 67 per km² (172 per sq mi).
Afghanistan has changed its flag more often than any other country, more than twenty times in the twentieth century alone, as each new government redrew it.