Place:Kapisa, Afghanistan

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NameKapisa
Alt namesKapisasource: Wikipedia
Kāpisāsource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 6
Kāpīsāsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeProvince
Coordinates34.75°N 69.5°E
Located inAfghanistan
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Badrao
Bagram
Mahmūd-e ʿErāqī
Rokhah
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Kapisa (Pashto/Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. The province of Kapisa has a population of approximately 488 000. The main ethnic groups in Kapisa are Tajik, Pashtun, and Nuristani. The province is situated in central-eastern Afghanistan, surrounded by the provinces of Panjshir, Laghman, Kabul and Parwan. Kapisa is divided in seven districts.Mahmmod Raqi is the center of Kapisa, it is an ancient historical province which 620 years ago was the summer capital of Kanishka and on that time India, Bangladesh and Pakistan has been controlled from Kapisa province A primary road connects the capital of Kapisa to Kabul City. The province is considered of strategic importance due to its location.The province covers an area of making it the smallest province in the country, however it is the most densely populated province apart from Kabul Province. Clashes have been reported in the province since the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

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