Top 10 Amazing Facts About Afghanistan
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The country of Afghanistan officially known as the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has captured news headlines all over the world but there's so much more to Afghanistan than all the negative things that make the news headlines welcome back to another of Countries Facts and now we're about to look at ten surprising and interesting facts about Afghanistan so let's take a look I mean the country is filled with a lot of amazing things and I want to highlight that for you guys now the first thing to look at is the landlocked country of Afghanistan.
1 Afghanistan shares its borders with Pakistan China Tajikistan Turkmenistan Iran and Uzbekistan and has a huge population of 38.2 million people making it the 37th most populated country in the world now the people who make up Afghanistan they're called Afghans not Afghan Eze which is the currency that they use and it's a common mistake that people make the next thing is that the country of Afghanistan is the world's 42nd largest by land area with Kabul serving as its capital and largest city the total land area is 650 mm 860 square kilometers and human habitation in Afghanistan.
2 Afghanistan dates back to the Middle Paleolithic era and the country's strategic location along the Silk Road connected it to cultures of the Middle East as well as other parts of Asia Afghanistan's national game is booze Kashi which literally translates to go pulling and they want this to be an Olympic sport good luck with that because it's regarded as the wildest sport game out there it involves placing the carcass of a goat a calf or sheep placed in the center of a circle which is surrounded by players of two teams who are on horseback the objective of the game is to pick up the carcass and bring it across a goal line or into the winner's circle the game has been played since the 13th century and used to be played earlier by rich rival warlords but it's now being financed by Afghan.
3 Afghan phone companies as well as private Airlines also carpet weaving has always been an integral part of the Afghan heritage for centuries with ethnic versity drawn from other cultures like Iran Pakistan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan the Afghan rugs are an extremely popular Afghanistan export in 2008 2013 and 2014 afghan rugs want international awards which is held every year in Hamburg Germany most Afghan Weaver's today make rugs that are about the same as those that have been woven for decades and as a testament to the meticulous nature of this art it approximately takes six to nine months to weave one large.
4 Afghan carpet many reports also state that only twenty eight point one percent of the population above the age of fifteen is literate in Afghanistan which means 71 point nine percent of adults in the country do not have simple reading and writing abilities and hopefully that continues to change over the years because the more educated you are of course the more power to you it's also the land of opium opium is the largest and fastest growing produce in Afghanistan.
5 Afghanistan opium poppy production goes into more than 90% of heroin worldwide Afghanistan has been the world's greatest illicit opium producer and in 2017 opium cultivation in Afghanistan reach a record high the fact that the opium poppy cultivation continues to expand in Afghanistan.
6 Afghanistan is not surprising I mean the country's economy has been in a deep slump since 2013 when the United States and NATO radically drew down their troop presence around which much of Afghanistan's economy was built after 2002 now the bottom line is that there is simply nothing in Afghanistan.
7 Afghanistan that produces more jobs than the opium poppy economy and there's nothing else that would surpass it in the foreseeable future another interesting fact is that the world's first oil paintings were not drawn in the Renaissance Europe contrary to popular belief but in the caves of Bamiyan located in the central heartland of Afghanistan.
8 Afghanistan around 650 BC in 2008 psy discovered oil paintings in 12 out of 50 caves in Bamian possibly made with walnut or poppy Batman was once a thriving buddhist center where monks lived in a series of caves carved into the cliffs by the two statues this was a spot where the world's two largest standing buddha statues once stood until the taliban destroyed them in 2001 seeing that the statues were on Islamic poacher is also a very important part in Afghan culture for thousands of years Afghans have told your tales in the form of verses in the western side of here at Thursday is a poetry night every Thursday people from all across the city get together to share verses from old and new poetry and they get together with desserts and sweet tea and bond over poetry that sounds pretty awesome kind of like my kind of thing I love just chill vibes poetry spoken word you know what I mean I might enjoy it over in Afghanistan.
9 Afghanistan the next thing I want to talk about is the kandar airfield situated in southern Afghanistan is known to be the world's single busiest runway airstrip it is also the location where NATO has his first full air traffic facility in a country not listed in NATO and the final fact about Afghanistan is that Afghanistan became independent on August 19th of 1919 and they fought three wars with Britain after which they declared themselves independent whew now interestingly they were never directly ruled by the British however like every other country in South Asia their foreign affairs were heavily influenced by the United Kingdom nicknamed the graveyard of Empires.
10 Afghanistan has had a reputation for being unconquered ball and for undoing ambitious military ventures and humiliating would-be conquerors the Soviets also tried to invade Afghanistan but they were forced out Afghans did not give in so easily so that was a brief look at the country of Afghanistan let me know all of your thoughts and comments down below in the comment section and also let me know which country you'd like to see an Countries facts Article on next.
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