!!!Afghanistan: Geography
||Location|Southern Asia, north and west of Pakistan, east of Iran
||Geographic Coordinates|33 00 N, 65 00 E[{GoogleMap location='33.0,65.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''652,230 sq km\\''land: ''652,230 sq km\\''water: ''0 sq km__\\''We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows:\\[Factbook|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook]: 652230\\ [DBpedia|http://dbpedia.org]: 647500\\ [Geoname|http://www.geonames.org]: 647500\\ [Infoplease|http://www.infoplease.com]: 647500\\ [Britannica|http://www.britannica.com]: 652864\\ [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: 652230''__\\__Attempted Explanation__: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''5,987 km\\''border countries: ''China 91 km, Iran 921 km, Pakistan 2,670 km, Tajikistan 1,357 km, Turkmenistan 804 km, Uzbekistan 144 km
||Coastline|0 km (landlocked)
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Amu Darya 258 m\\''highest point: ''Noshak 7,485 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Noshaq 7492 m; Shachaur 7084 m; Mount Sikaram 4761 m; Kaisargarh 3444 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Noshaq 7482 m; Kuh-e Bandaka 6812 m; Koh-e Bandaka 6812 m; Koh-e Tuloksa 6435 m; Sakar Sar 6271 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Mountains|Geography/Asia/Afghanistan/Geography/Important_Mountains]
||Terrain|mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest
||Natural Hazards|damaging earthquakes occur in Hindu Kush mountains; flooding; droughts
||Natural Resource|natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semiprecious stones
||Land Use|''arable land: ''11.95%\\''permanent crops: ''0.18%\\''other: ''87.87% (2011)
||Climate|arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers
||Irrigated Land|32,080 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|65.33 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|limited natural freshwater resources; inadequate supplies of potable water; soil degradation; overgrazing; deforestation (much of the remaining forests are being cut down for fuel and building materials); desertification; air and water pollution
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection\\''signed, but not ratified: ''Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation
||Large Cities|Kabul; Qandahar; Mazar-e Sarif; Herat; Jalalabad\\ __[[Verified]__\\[Important Cities|Geography/Asia/Afghanistan/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|landlocked; the Hindu Kush mountains that run northeast to southwest divide the northern provinces from the rest of the country; the highest peaks are in the northern Vakhan (Wakhan Corridor)