List Of Cities In Afghanistan
The only city in Afghanistan with over 1 million population is the capital, Kabul. The rest are smaller cities some of which constitute more of a town. A recent nationwide survey conducted by the Afghan Central Statistics Office (CSO) estimated that the total number of people living inside Afghanistan was about 26 million. Of this, 5.7 million were reported to be living in urban areas and the rest in rural or countryside.
The following are fourteen cities of Afghanistan in order of population. The estimates are from 2006 by the CSO published by the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development of Afghanistan.
- Kabul - 1,925,548 (most media reports mention around 4 or 5 million)
- Kandahar - 468,200
- Herat - 397,456
- Mazar-i-Sharif - 375,181
- Kunduz - 230,600
- Lashkar Gah - 201,546
- Taluqan - 194,471
- Puli Khumri - 191,640
- Khost - 160,214
- Ghazni - 154,618
- Sheberghan - 148,329
- Sari Pul - 115,463
- Farah - 109,409
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