In Popular Culture
- Nuristan is the subject of the book A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by the British travel writer Eric Newby.
- Nuristan was the location of three of the missions in Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
- Rudyard Kipling's short story The Man Who Would Be King and the film inspired by it are set in pre-Islamic Nuristan.
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