Afghanistan

Administrative units

velayat (province)	capital	area (sq.km.)	population 2006 estimate
source: CSO, Afghanistan.
Badakhshan	Faiz Abad	44,059.3	823,000
Badghis	Qala-i-Now	20,590.6	429,500
Baghlan	Pul Khumri	21,118.4	779,000
Balkh	Mazar-i-Sharif	17,248.5	1,096,100
Bamyan	Bamyan	14,175.3	387,300
Daikondi	Neli	8,088.0	399,600
Farah	Farah	48,470.9	438,000
Faryab	Maimana	20,292.8	858,600
Ghazni	Ghazni	22,914.6	1,062,600
Ghor	Cheghcharan	36,478.8	598,600
Helmand	Lashkar Gah	58,583.7	799,000
Herat	Herat	54,778.0	1,578,200
Juzjan	Sheberghan	11,798.3	461,700
Kabul	Kabul	4,461.6	3,138,100
Kandahar	Kandahar	54,022.0	1,011,700
Kapisa	Mahmood Raqi	1,842.1	382,600
Khost	Khost	4,151.5	498,000
Kunarha	Asad Abad	4,941.5	390,200
Kunduz	Kunduz	8,039.7	851,300
Laghman	Mehterlam	3,842.6	386,400
Logar	Pul-i-Alam	3,879.8	339,700
Maydan-Wardak	Maydan Shahr	8,938.1	517,200
Nangarhar	Jalal Abad	7,727.4	1,289,000
Nimroz	Zaranj	41,005.4	141,400
Nooristan	Paroon	9,225.0	128,400
Paktia	Gardeiz	6,431.7	477,500
Paktika	Sharan	19,482.4	377,100
Panjshir	Bazarak	3,610.0	133,200
Parwan	Charikar	5,974.0	573,100
Samangan	Aibak	11,261.9	334,800
Sar-i-Pul	Sar-i-Pul	15,999.2	482,900
Takhar	Taluqan	12,333.0	845,300
Urozgan	Terin Kott	22,696.0	303,600
Zabul	Qalat	17,343.5	263,200
total		645,806.6	22,575,900