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Capital Kabul
Largest city Kabul
Official language(s) Pashto, Persian
(Dari)
Population
29,863,000
Currency Afghani
Calling code +93
Afghanistan Persian is a landlocked country at the juncture of Asia.
Typically considered a part of Central Asia, it is another time ascribed
to a regional bloc in either the Middle East or South Asia, as it
has cultural, ethno-lingual. It is bordered by Iran in the west, Pakistan
inside the south and east, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
within the north, and the People's Republic of China to the east.
The name Afghanistan is gained from Persian, substance "land
of the Afghans".
Afghanistan is a mosaic of ethnic groups and cultures,
and a crossways between east and west. An ancient land that has
often been plundered, and as well a focal point of trade, the region
of present Afghanistan has seen several invading forces are and
go, including Aryan nomads, the Mede and Persian Empires, Greeks,
Arabs, Turks, and Mongols. Modern Afghanistan arose as an independent
state within 1919, when foreign intervention ceased following the
Anglo-Afghan wars. The country's
late history has seen it ravaged by the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan,
the Afghan Civil War, the raise and fall of the Taliban, and the
United States invasion of Afghanistan inside 2001.
As a effect of these traumatic events, Afghanistan is inside a
rebuilding phase, as it attempts to reconcile the
devastation that constant warfare has created, with a new government
that seeks to unify and rebuild Afghanistan. Afghanistan faces numerous
problems, ranging from its blasted economy, the return of millions
of refugees, kept warlordism, drug trafficking, and a noneS-new
government that is fighting with the political forces trying to
define the sort of country Afghanistan will be within the 21st century.
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| Afghans reveal pride in their country,
ancestry, and higher up all, their independence. Like other highlanders,
Afghans are regarded with mingled apprehension and condescension,
for their high regard for personal honor, for their clan loyalty and
for their readiness to carry and use arms to settle difference of
opinion*. As clan warfare / internecine feuding has been one of their
chief jobs since time immemorial, this individualistic trait has made
it hard for foreign invaders to hold the region. Afghanistan
has a complex history that has
survived either in its current cultures or in the variety of various
languages and monuments. However, many of the area's historic memorials
have been damaged in recent wars. The two famous statues of Buddha
in the Bamiyan Province were destroyed by the Taliban, who regarded
them as idolatrous. Other famous sites let in the very cities of
Herat, Ghazni and Balkh. The Minaret of Jam, in the Hari Rud valley,
is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The people of Afghanistan are outstanding
horsemen as the national play is
Buzkashi, similar to Polo, but instead which a goat carcass
is listed instead of a ball. Afghan hounds
(a type of running dogs) also originated in Afghanistan.
Although literacy levels are very low, classic
Persian poetry plays a very important part in Afghan culture. Poetry
has always been one of the major educational pillars in each Iran
and, consequently, Afghanistan, to the grade that it has integrated
itself into culture. Persian culture has, and continues to, exert
a great influence of Afghan culture. Private poetry competition
events known as “musha’era” are quite common even
among ordinary people. Almost every home owns one or more poetry
collection of some sort, possibly if it is not review often.
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| The historic blue mosque in Mazar-e Sharif Afghanistan |
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