Place:Kunar, Afghanistan

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NameKunar
Alt namesKonarsource: Wikipedia
Konarhasource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Konarhāsource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) p 10
Kunarsource: Wikipedia
TypeProvince
Coordinates35.25°N 71.0°E
Located inAfghanistan
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Asadabad
Asmar
Barg-e Matal
Barikowt
Konar-e Khas
Kāmdeysh
Rechah Lam
Tsowkey
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Kunar (Pashto: ; Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country. Its capital is Asadabad. Its population is estimated to be 508,224.[1] Kunar's major political groups include Wahhabis or Ahl-e- Hadith, Nazhat-e Hambastagi Milli, Hezb-e Afghanistan Naween, Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin.

It is one of the four "N2KL" provinces (Nangarhar Province, Nuristan Province, Kunar Province and Laghman Province). N2KL was the designation used by the US and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan for the rugged region along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border opposite Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (merged in 2018 with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). Kunar is the center of the N2KL region. Kunar was the birthplace of Sayyed Jamaluddin Afghani (al-Afghani), who was an influential Muslim scholar and philosopher.

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