Back قائمة مدن أفغانستان Arabic Əfqanıstan şəhərləri Azerbaijani Lis kota ring Afganistan BAN Städt in Afghanistan BAR Lista kan mga syudad sa Afghanistan BCL Списък на градовете в Афганистан Bulgarian Daptar kuta di Apganistan BJN Llista de ciutats d'Afganistan Catalan پێڕستی شارەکانی ئەفغانستان CKB Seznam měst v Afghánistánu Czech
Kabul
Herat
Jalalabad
Kandahar
Mazar-i-Sharif
Kunduz
Lashkargah
Puli Khumri
Farah
Ghazni
Maymana
Khost
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.[5]
- ^ "STATE OF AFGHAN CITIES -2015 VOLUME ONE" (PDF). samuelhall.org. Ministry of Urban Development Affairs.
- ^ "Taliban take Afghanistan's second-largest city Kandahar". DW News. 13 August 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- ^ "Taliban conquest: A primer on Kandahar, Afghanistan's 2nd biggest city". The Jerusalem Post. 13 August 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- ^ "Taliban capture Afghanistan's second biggest city of Kandahar". Reuters. 13 August 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
- ^ "NSIA Population Estimates 2019-20" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-09.