Provinces of Afghanistan
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provinces-of-afghanistan-167-7538478
title:
Provinces of Afghanistan
text:
Afghanistan is divided into 34 provinces. The provinces of Afghanistan are the primary administrative divisions. Each province encompasses a number of districts or usually over 1,000 villages. Provincial governors played a critical role in the reconstruction of the Afghan state following the creation of the new government under Hamid Karzai. According to international security scholar Dipali Mukhopadhyay, many of the provincial governors of the western-backed government were former warlords who
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
First-level administrative territorial entity of Afghanistan
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Afghanistan
date created:
2003-12-23T19:32:04Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T09:05:08Z
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