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NXS-GRX-AFG · Southern Asia · Regions

Afghanistan: 34 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 34 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Map All units Country map
Page GRX-AFG-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO AFG / AFStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
34
first-level units
432
units at 2 levels
44,417,078
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Afghanistan by province, state and territory

34 first-level units and 398 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 34 first-level units of Afghanistan
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Afghanistan

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
34 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Public Domain · each with its own page
ADM2
398 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Public Domain · each with its own page
03Units

All 34 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit குறியீடு People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Badakhshan AF-BDN 1,916,991 1,490,710 45,420 42 4.3% 0
Badghis AF-BDG 1,028,579 728,578 20,552 50 2.3% 0
Baghlan AF-BGL 1,322,364 1,384,711 17,039 78 3% 0
Balkh AF-BAL 1,983,198 2,081,158 17,328 114 4.5% 0
Bamyan AF-BAM 761,957 643,635 17,903 43 1.7% 0
Daykundi AF-DAY 736,364 734,504 17,948 41 1.7% 0
Farah AF-FRA 918,284 763,212 47,770 19 2.1% 0
Faryab AF-FYB 1,765,923 1,517,132 20,359 87 4% 0
Ghanzi AF-GHA 1,110,512 1,931,080 22,858 49 2.5% 0
Ghor AF-GHO 1,226,502 1,020,874 36,667 33 2.8% 0
Helmand AF-HEL 1,425,709 2,209,146 59,997 24 3.2% 0
Herat AF-HER 3,769,203 2,900,596 53,845 70 8.5% 0
Jowzjan AF-JOW 665,778 783,240 11,680 57 1.5% 0
Kabul AF-KAB 7,199,828 7,188,785 4,446 1,619 16.2% 0
Kandahar AF_KAN 2,057,560 2,075,365 54,055 38 4.6% 0
Kapisa AF-KAP 603,112 644,226 2,263 267 1.4% 0
Khost AF-KHO 1,380,907 870,410 4,252 325 3.1% 0
Kunar AF-KNR 789,208 676,668 5,082 155 1.8% 0
Kunduz AF-KDZ 1,233,196 1,576,462 7,994 154 2.8% 0
Laghman AF-LAG 746,243 614,036 3,598 207 1.7% 0
Logar AF-LOG 688,844 627,271 4,978 138 1.6% 0
Nangarhar AF-NAN 2,684,279 2,408,864 7,528 357 6% 0
Nimruz AF-NIM 279,710 256,926 40,988 7 0.6% 0
Nuristan AF-NUR 228,168 211,038 8,679 26 0.5% 0
Paktia AF-PIA 926,950 858,302 5,471 169 2.1% 0
Paktika AF-PKA 678,121 1,234,423 19,772 34 1.5% 0
Panjshir AF-PAN 131,101 118,765 3,263 40 0.3% 0
Parwan AF-PAR 1,075,720 1,114,382 5,947 181 2.4% 0
Samangan AF-SAM 592,293 529,601 10,972 54 1.3% 0
Sar-e Pol AF-SAR 804,262 824,641 15,987 50 1.8% 0
Takhar AF-TAK 1,761,991 1,506,658 12,412 142 4% 0
Uruzgan AF-URU 567,882 596,762 10,982 52 1.3% 0
Wardak AF-WAR 909,844 782,647 9,193 99 2% 0
Zabul AF-ZAB 446,495 549,849 17,331 26 1% 0
04இடர்

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Afghanistan publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen AFG ADM1, source: Wikimedia, geoBoundaries, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2007
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen AFG ADM2, source: Afghanistan Information Management Services, Esri Disaster Response Program, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2014
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
நாடுகள்
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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