AFGHANISTAN
(Islamic Republic of Afghanistan)

CVapital: Kabul
Currency: Afghani (AFN, code 971).

Official languages: Pashto and Dari — official languages.
Understand and can talk: Uzbek, Turkmen, beludzhsky, nuristanskiya, a pashaa, the Pamir languages — regional languages.

Located on the continent of Asia, Afghanistan occupies 652 230 square kilometers of the earth that does it by 41st in size country on the area of sushi.

Afghanistan became the independent state in 1919, having received sovereignty from the United Kingdom. The population of Afghanistan makes 30 419 928 (2012), and the population of the country is made by the 47th people per square kilometer.

Currency of Afghanistan is Afghan (AFN). Besides, the population of Afghanistan is called the Afghan or Afghans.

Code for set for the country - 93, and the domain of the top level for the Afghan websites - .af.

Afghanistan divides overland borders with 6 countries: Iran, Turkmenistan, China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.

Kabul is also the political center of Afghanistan which is considered the republic and is the house for her chief executive.

Kabul is the city, the capital of Afghanistan. It is located 34,53 widths and 69,17 longitudes and located at the height of 1798 meters above sea level.

3 043 532 persons live in Kabul that does it by the biggest city in Kabul. It works in the time zone of AFT.

At the same time the reviving Talibs stirred up terrorist activity in the areas which are outside the state control, especially in southeast provinces. In the middle of 2006 forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) returned the approach of Talibs directed to Kandahar. However since 2007 Talibs used safe harbors in the neighboring Pakistan for gradual restoration and expansion of the control in Afghanistan.

At the beginning of 2008 it controlled about 10 percent of the country, and the government controlled only about 30 percent. Other territories controlled local tribes. Despite the efforts on reduction of cultivation of poppies made by the USA for production of drugs, in 2007 and 2008 the harvest made the increasing percent of economy of Afghanistan and was large support of Talibs. In the middle of 2008 the new International conference in support of Afghanistan confirmed the international obligations to economic and political stability in the country, but demanded improvement of coordination of the help and reduction of corruption. Meanwhile large-scale economic difficulties weakened support of the government of Karzai among the population more and more.