AFGHANISTAN

POPULATION AND CAPITAL

• about 30 million people
• Capital city is Kabul

HIGHEST AND LOWEST POINT

• Noshaq-24,580 feet
• Amu Darya-846 feet

AFGHANISTAN PEOPLE

• Languages spoken are Pashto and Dari
• Literacy rate
• Male is 43.1%
• Female is only 12.6%

CLIMATE AND GEOGRAPHY

• 42nd most populated country
• landlocked country
• subarctic mountain climate

GOVERNMENT AND HISTORY

• Today's leader of Afghanistan is Ashraf Chani Ahmadzai
• A 13 year war between Afghanistan and the United States ended last year
• Afghanistan became a country in 1747

PROBLEMS TODAY

• low literacy rate for women
• war and violence
• not a safe place for children

FACTS ABOUT THE COUNTRY

• Taliban
• an islamic, fundamentalist, political movement
• ruled from 1996-2001
• were part of the 9/11 attacks

MORE FACTS

• two major wars
• 1838-1842, 1878-1881

MORE FACTS

• borders Pakistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, China, and Uzbekistan
• many natural resources
• coal, copper, gold, silver, zinc and more

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