أفغانستان

English: Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari-Persian: Afğānistān افغانستان) is a country in Central Asia.

Deutsch: Afghanistan (Paschtu/Persisch: افغانستان Afghanistan bzw. Afghânestân), ist ein Staat in Zentralasien.

Español: Afganistán es un país en Asia Central.

فارسی: افغانستان نام کشوری در آسیای میانه است

Suomi: Afganistan on maa Keski-Aasiassa.

日本語: アフガニスタンは、中央アジアに位置する共和国。

한국어: 아프가니스탄은 아시아에 있는 나라입니다.

Maps are included in the

Wikimedia Atlas of Afghanistan

.

[edit] Insignia

Flag of Afghanistan

Coat of arms of Afghanistan

Symbol of the Military of Afghanistan

Location of Afghanistan

Map of Afghanistan

Larger map

Eastern Afghanistan	Northwestern Afghanistan	Mountains of Afghanistan	Kabul City
Kandahar International Airport	Herat City

The Medes followed by the Achaemenid Empire controlled the area during 500 BCE	Alexander the Great conquered the land in 330 BCE	Arab Muslims invaded the land in the 7th century and Islam began to spread	The Ghaznavid Empire was established in 975 at Ghazni
Ahmad Shah Durrani established the Durrani Empire at Kandahar in 1747	British invasions and withdrawls in the 1800s	Soviet invasion and withdrawl in the 1980s	Taliban rule from 1994 to 2001
2001-present US-NATO involvement

President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai with Supreme Court Judges and former Afghan King, Zahir Shah	Hamid Karzai and George W. Bush with the politicians of Afghanistan on March 1, 2006	Parliamentarians of Afghanistan in 2006	Yunus Qanuni, speaker of the lower house of Parliament
Abdul Rahim Wardak, Defense Minister of Afghanistan	Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan

Young girls in traditional clothes	Boy and father in southern Afghanistan	Young men from Nangarhar province	Kid with mother
Afghan kids in Kabul	Men of northern Afghanistan	Afghans at Kabul Airport	Women of Afghanistan
Young students	Men from Kandahar province with U.S. soldier	Kabul police men	Street musicians in Mazari Sharif
Village children of Afghanistan	Female students	Construction workers