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Can you locate all 13 regions of Saudi Arabia?
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Can you place all 77 districts of Nepal?
Can you place all 52 districts of Jordan?
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Afghanistan is a country the Hindu Kush cuts in two: the high ranges run south west from the Pamirs across the middle, the Kabul basin sits in the east, and the plains of the north and the deserts of the south lie either side. The province is the unit that tells you which of those a place is in, and there are 34 of them.
The provinces (wilayat) of Afghanistan, the first tier of the country. Most are named for their capital city, so Kandahar, Herat, Balkh (whose city is Mazar-i-Sharif), Kunduz and Ghazni are the same word twice. Two are recent: Daykundi was cut out of Uruzgan in 2004, and Panjshir out of Parwan in 2004 too, which is why maps from before then show 32.
Some names have more than one romanisation. The quiz uses Maidan Wardak for the province that older maps call Wardak, and Sar-e Pol, Kunar and Paktia as the common English forms.
The groups are not an administrative tier. Afghanistan has no level between the province and the country, so the quiz uses the eight regions Afghan statistics and the UN agree on: Central, Central Highlands, East, North, North East, South, South East and West. They are a way to drill the map a piece at a time. The provinces are the Afghanistan Districts grouped, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
The map is lopsided. Helmand, Kandahar and Farah are huge and mostly desert, Nuristan, Panjshir and Kapisa are small mountain provinces in the east, and Badakhshan reaches out along the Wakhan Corridor to the Chinese border.
Helmand is the largest of the southern provinces, a desert basin watered by the river that gives it its name, and the centre of the country's poppy and wheat growing. It borders Pakistan in the south.
Panjshir is one of the smallest provinces, a single long valley in the Hindu Kush north of Kabul. It was made a province of its own in 2004, out of Parwan.
34, grouped here into eight regions.
Afghanistan goes straight from the province to the country. The eight regions are the cut that Afghan statistics and the UN use, and the quiz uses them to let you drill one part at a time.
The districts. They are their own quiz.
The tier below this one is Afghanistan Districts. For another country at this level, see Nepal Provinces.
