List of cities in Afghanistan

Kabul

Herat

Jalalabad

Kandahar

Mazar-i-Sharif

Kunduz

Lashkargah

Puli Khumri

Farah

Ghazni

Maymana

Khost

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Map of major cities as identified by governmental organizations^[1]

The only city in Afghanistan with over 1 million people is its capital, Kabul. The rest are smaller cities and towns. According to the National Statistic and Information Authority of Afghanistan (NSIA), an estimated total number of people living inside Afghanistan was 32,225,560 in 2020. Of this, around 7.8 million were reported to be living in urban areas and the rest in rural or countryside.^[2]

The chart below shows 18 cities of Afghanistan with a population over 70,000, by order of population.

Ancient names of places or cities in Afghanistan:

• Images of smaller Afghan cities and towns
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  Lashkargah, capital of Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan
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  Section of Ghazni, capital of Ghazni Province
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  Khost, capital of Khost Province in the east of the country
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  Fayzabad, capital of Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan
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  Zaranj, capital of Nimruz Province in southwestern Afghanistan
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  Qalat, the capital of Zabul Province in the south of the country
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  Asadabad, capital of Kunar Province in the east of the country

• Provinces of Afghanistan
• Districts of Afghanistan
• List of places in Afghanistan
• Demography of Afghanistan

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities in Afghanistan.

• Central Statistics Office of Afghanistan
• Photos of Afghan cities
• World Gazetteer: Afghanistan – map at archive.today (archived 2012-12-10)
• Wilson, Frederick E. "Transcription of Afghan Placenames to an English-style Romanization." Names 34.2 (1986): 185-197.