Afghanistan Provinces and Population

Province	Map #	ISO 3166-2:AF[2]	Centers	Population[3]	Area (km²)	Language	Notes	U.N. Region
Badakhshan	30	AF-BDS	Fayzabad	819,396	44,059	Dari Persian, Pamiri languages, Pashto	Composed of 29 districts	North East Afghanistan
Badghis	4	AF-BDG	Qala i Naw	499,393	20,591	Dari Persian, Pashto	7 districts	West Afghanistan
Baghlan	19	AF-BGL	Puli Khumri	741,690	21,118	Dari Persian, Uzbek,Turkmen, Pashto	16 districts	North East Afghanistan
Balkh	13	AF-BAL	Mazari Sharif	1,123,948	17,249	Dari Persian, Pashto	15 districts	North West Afghanistan
Bamiyan	15	AF-BAM	Bamiyan	343,892	14,175	Dari Persian	7 districts	West Afghanistan
Daykundi	10	AF-DAY	Nili	477,544	8,088	Dari Persian and Pashto	8 districts Formed from Orūzgān Province in 2004	South West Afghanistan
Farah	2	AF-FRA	Farah	493,007	48,471	Pashto, Dari Persian, Baloch	11 districts	West Afghanistan
Faryab	5	AF-FYB	Maymana	833,724	20,293	Uzbek, Dari Persian, Pashto & Turkmen	14 districts	North West Afghanistan
Ghazni	16	AF-GHA	Ghazni	1,080,843	22,915	Pashto, Dari Persian	19 districts	South East Afghanistan
Ghor	6	AF-GHO	Chaghcharan	635,302	36,479	Dari Persian, Pashto	10 districts	West Afghanistan
Helmand	7	AF-HEL	Lashkar Gah	1,441,769	58,584	Pashto, Dari Persian	13 districts	South West Afghanistan
Herat	1	AF-HER	Herat	1,762,157	54,778	Dari Persian, Pashto, Turkmen	15 districts	West Afghanistan
Jowzjan	8	AF-JOW	Sheberghan	426,987	11,798	Uzbek, Turkmen,Pashto & Dari Persian	9 districts	North West Afghanistan
Kabul	22	AF-KAB	Kabul	3,314,000	4,462	Pashto, Dari Persian, Turkmen and Uzbek	18 districts	Central Afghanistan
Kandahar	12	AF-KAN	Kandahar	913,000	54,022	Pashto, Dari Persian	16 districts	South West Afghanistan
Kapisa	29	AF-KAP	Mahmud-i-Raqi	358,268	1,842	Dari Persian, Pashto, Pashayi	7 districts	Central Afghanistan
Khost	26	AF-KHO	Khost	638,849	4,152	Pashto	13 districts	South East Afghanistan
Kunar	34	AF-KNR	Asadabad	413,008	4,942	Pashto	15 districts	East Afghanistan
Kunduz	18	AF-KDZ	Kunduz	820,000	8,040	Pashto, Dari Persian, Uzbek & Turkmen	7 districts	North East Afghanistan
Laghman	32	AF-LAG	Mihtarlam District	382,280	3,843	Pashto, Pashai, Nuristani & Dari Persian	5 districts	East Afghanistan
Logar	23	AF-LOW	Pul-i-Alam	322,704	3,880	Pashto, Dari Persian	7 districts	Central Afghanistan
Nangarhar	33	AF-NAN	Jalalabad	1,342,514	7,727	Pashto, Dari Persian	23 districts	East Afghanistan
Nimruz	3	AF-NIM	Zaranj	117,991	41,005	Balochi, Pashto & Dari Persian	5 districts	South West Afghanistan
Nurestan	31	AF-NUR	Parun	130,964	9,225	Nuristani, Pashto	7 districts	East Afghanistan
Orūzgān	11	AF-ORU	Tarin Kowt	320,589	22,696	Pashto, Dari Persian	6 districts	South West Afghanistan
Paktia	24	AF-PIA	Gardez	415,000	6,432	Pashto, Dari Persian	11 districts	South East Afghanistan
Paktika	25	AF-PKA	Sharan	809,772	19,482	Pashto, Dari Persian	15 districts	South East Afghanistan
Panjshir	28	AF-PAN	Bazarak	128,620	3,610	Dari Persian	5 districts Created in 2004 from Parwan Province	Central Afghanistan
Parwan	20	AF-PAR	Charikar	491,870	5,974	Dari Persian, Pashto	Composed of 9 districts	Central Afghanistan
Samangan	14	AF-SAM	Aybak	378,000	11,262	Dari Persian, Uzbek	5 districts	North West Afghanistan
Sar-e Pol	9	AF-SAR	Sar-e Pol	442,261	15,999	Dari Persian, Pashto and Uzbek	6 districts	North West Afghanistan
Takhar	27	AF-TAK	Taloqan	830,319	12,333	Dari Persian, Uzbek, Pashto	12 districts	North East Afghanistan
Wardak	21	AF-WAR	Meydan Shahr	529,343	9,934	Pashto, Dari Persian	9 districts	Central Afghanistan
Zabul	17	AF-ZAB	Qalat	244,899	17,343	Pashto, Dari Persian	9 districts	South East Afghanistan