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In other languages: Guide to Afghanistan ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
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Afghanistan (/æfˈɡænɪstæn, æfˈɡɑːnɪstɑːn/; Pashto/Dari: افغانستان, Pashto: Afġānistān [avɣɒnisˈtɒn, ab-],[10] Dari: Afġānestān [avɣɒnesˈtɒn]), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east; Iran in the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan in the north; and in the far northeast, China. Its territory covers 652,000 square kilometers or 252,000 sq miles, and much of it is covered by the Hindu Kush mountain range. Afghanistan's location made it an important trade route and it is home to many different ethnic groups.
Afghanistan Map
Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Afghanistan.
Provinces
Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is administratively divided into thirty-four (34) provinces (welayats):
- Badakhshan Province
- Badghis Province
- Baghlan Province
- Balkh Province
- Bamian Province
- Daykondi Province
- Farah Province
- Faryab Province
- Ghazni Province
- Ghowr Province
- Helmand Province
- Herat Province
- Jowzjan Province
- Kabol Province
- Kandahar Province
- Kapisa Province
- Khowst Province
- Konar Province
- Kondoz Province
- Laghman Province
- Lowgar Province
- Nangarhar Province
- Nimruz Province
- Nurestan Province
- Oruzgan Province
- Paktia Province
- Paktika Province
- Panjshir Province
- Parvan Province
- Samangan Province
- Sar-e Pol Province
- Takhar Province
- Vardak Province
- Zabol Province