Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
According to a 2012 estimate, the population of the city was around 3,289,000.[1] Ths includes Tajiks, Pashtuns, Hazaras and some other smaller ethnic groups.[2] It is the 64th largest and the 5th fastest growing city in the world.[3][4]
It is 1,800 meters, or 5,900 feet above-sea-level. Kabul is over 3,500 years old.
Districts
The city of Kabul is inside Kabul District - a district of Kabul Province. The city is also a municipality (shārwāli) - because it is also capital of a province; That municipality is divided into 22 administrative districts called municipal districts or city districts (nāhia); These districts (are the same, or) coincide with the official Police Districts (PD).[5]
Related pages
- Kabul Province
- Wahida Amiri, Afghan activist
References
- ↑ Afghanistan Statistical Yearbook 2012/13, Central Statistics Office Afghanistan. Archived 2013-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "2003 National Geographic Population Map" (PDF). Thomas Gouttierre, Center For Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha; Matthew S. Baker, Stratfor. National Geographic Society. November 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-02-27. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
- ↑ "Largest cities in the world and their mayors - 1 to 150". City Mayors. 2012-05-17. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ↑ "World's fastest growing urban areas (1)". City Mayors. 2012-05-17. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ↑ Foschini, Fabrizio. "A geographical guide to a metropolis in the making" (PDF). www.afghanistan-analysts.org.