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 Kabul

Country: Afghanistan
City: Kabul
Kabul Kabul, city in east central Afghanistan, capital of the country and Kabul Province. Kabul is on the Kabul River, situated at an elevation of about 1800 m (about 5900 ft) making it one of the highest capital cities in the World. The population is around 1 million people. The nation's chief economic and cultural center, it has long been of strategic importance because of its proximity to the Khyber ...

 The Panjshir Valley

Country: Afghanistan
City: Kabul
The Panjshir Valley "Soon the valley broadened to half a mile. We crossed the river, now a weaving crystalline band the colour of sapphire, several times on narrow wooden bridges reinforced with lengths of military truck chassis or rusting Russian pontoons ... everywhere these forgotten splinters of what had been the pride of Soviet armour were being absorbed organically back into the land."- Jason Elliot, An Unexpec ...

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