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Removals to Afghanistan
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Afghanistan Country Profile
Ahmad Shah DURRANI unified the Pashtun tribes and founded
Afghanistan in 1747. The country served as a buffer between the British
and Russian
empires until it won independence from notional British control
in
1919. A brief experiment in democracy ended in a 1973 coup and
a 1978
Communist counter-coup. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 to support
the tottering Afghan Communist regime, but withdrew 10 years
later
under relentless pressure by internationally supported anti-Communist
mujahedin rebels. A civil war between mujahedin factions erupted
following the 1992 fall of the Communist regime. The Taliban, a hardline
Pakistani-sponsored
movement that emerged in 1994 to end the country's civil war
and anarchy,seized Kabul in 1996 and most of the country outside of
opposition Northern Alliance strongholds by 1998. Following the
11 September
2001 terrorist attacks, a US, Allied, and Northern Alliance military
action toppled the Taliban for sheltering Osama BIN LADIN. In
late 2001, a conference in Bonn, Germany, established a process
for political
reconstruction that included the adoption of a new constitution
in
2003, a presidential election in 2004, and National Assembly
elections in 2005. On 9 October 2004, Hamid KARZAI became the
first democratically
elected president of Afghanistan. The National Assembly was inaugurated
on 19 December
Afghanistan Fast Facts
Location: |
Southern Asia, north and west of Pakistan, east of Iran |
Geographic coordinates: |
33 00 N, 65 00 E |
Map references: |
Asia |
Area: |
total: 647,500 sq km
land: 647,500 sq km
water: 0 sq km |
Area - comparative: |
slightly smaller than Texas |
Land boundaries: |
total: 5,529 km
border countries: China 76 km, Iran 936 km, Pakistan
2,430 km, Tajikistan 1,206 km, Turkmenistan 744 km, Uzbekistan
137 km |
Coastline: |
0 km (landlocked) |
Maritime claims: |
none (landlocked) |
Climate: |
arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers |
Terrain: |
mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest |
Elevation extremes: |
lowest point: Amu Darya 258 m
highest point: Nowshak 7,485 m |
Natural resources: |
natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur,
lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semiprecious stones |
Land use: |
arable land: 12.13%
permanent crops: 0.22%
other: 87.65% (2001) |
Irrigated land: |
23,860 sq km (1998 est.) |
Natural hazards: |
damaging earthquakes occur in Hindu Kush mountains; flooding; droughts |
Environment - current
issues: |
limited natural fresh water 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
signed, but not ratified: Hazardous Wastes, Law of the
Sea, Marine Life Conservation |
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) |
Population: |
29,928,987 (July 2005 est.) |
Age structure: |
0-14 years: 44.7% (male 6,842,857/female 6,524,485)
15-64 years: 52.9% (male 8,124,077/female 7,713,603)
65 years and over: 2.4% (male 353,193/female 370,772)
(2005 est.) |
Median age: |
total: 17.56 years
male: 17.55 years
female: 17.57 years (2005 est.) |
Population growth
rate: |
4.77% |
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