A Geography of AfghanistanCenter for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1976 - 204 pages |
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... covered with snow all year , and therefore scarcely used for communication . The northern side of the Hindu Kush is treeless , while the southern slopes are covered with forest at elevations between 900 and 4000 meters . This is the ...
... covered with snow all year , and therefore scarcely used for communication . The northern side of the Hindu Kush is treeless , while the southern slopes are covered with forest at elevations between 900 and 4000 meters . This is the ...
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... covered with year - long snow . The north and south slopes of this mountain are covered with forests . Shutor Gardan is an important pass at an elevation of 3720 meters between the provinces of Logar and Paktia , and the famous Khyber ...
... covered with year - long snow . The north and south slopes of this mountain are covered with forests . Shutor Gardan is an important pass at an elevation of 3720 meters between the provinces of Logar and Paktia , and the famous Khyber ...
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... covered by a masonary dome for weather protection ; the dome in the case of Kandahar had a diameter of 22 meters . Bazaars created the focus of commercial activities , and the craftsmen of the same occupation often had their shops ...
... covered by a masonary dome for weather protection ; the dome in the case of Kandahar had a diameter of 22 meters . Bazaars created the focus of commercial activities , and the craftsmen of the same occupation often had their shops ...
Contents
Chapter One Locational Aspects | 3 |
Chapter Three Twentieth Century Boundaries | 16 |
Chapter Four General Geology | 23 |
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1817 LIBRARIES Afghan agriculture Andkhoy Arghandab average Badakhshan Badghis Baghlan Balkh Bamyan basin boundary canal capacity carpets Charikar construction cotton crops cubic meters cultivated Darunta deposits earthquake east eastern elevation estimated exports Farah Faryab Five Year Plan forests fruits Ghazni Girishk Hari Rud hectares Helmand Herat highway Hindu Kush important increase India industrial Iran Jalalabad Jawzjan jeribs Kabul Kandahar karakul kilometers long kilowatt-hours Kunduz Laghman land large number located Logar Maimana Mazar-i-Sharif meters per second meters wide MICHIGAN million meters Ministry of Planning Minor Civil Division mountains Murghab Nangarhar Nimroz nomads northern Nuristan Pakistan Paktia Parwan pasture population production provinces Puli Khumri Pushtun region river road Russia Salang Samangan sector Seistan Shah slopes square kilometers started survey TABLE Taloqan textile factories Third Plan tons total amount total area total number tourism trade urban USSR valleys vegetation villages Wardak wheat