Kandahar
Kandahar is the capital of Kandahar province, and the largest city in Southern Afghanistan. Kandahar is also the second largest city in Afghanistan after the capital Kabul, and was the first capital of the modern state of Afghanistan in the 18th century.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Cloak of Muhammad
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Cloak of Muhammad is a relic hidden inside Khirqa Sharif in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Kandahar Provincial Museum
Museum
The Kandahar Provincial Museum is a museum located in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Mosque of the Hair of the Prophet
Mosque
The Mosque of the Hair of the Prophet, also known as Jame Mui Mobarak, is a mosque near the Kabul Bazaar, in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Kandahar
- Type: City with 450,000 residents
- Description: city in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Kandahar District, Kandahar, South Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.6206° or 31° 37' 14" northLongitude
65.7158° or 65° 42' 57" eastPopulation
450,000Elevation
1,007 metres (3,304 feet)Also known as
CandaharAlso known as
KandagarAlso known as
KandharAlso known as
QandaharAlso known as
QanḏahāṟIATA airport code
KDHUnited Nations Location Code
AF KDHOpen location code
8J37JPC8+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 97993575OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Kandahar Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
- Albanian: Kandahar
- Arabic: قندهار
- Armenian: Կանդագար
- Armenian: Կանդահար
- Armenian: Քանդահար
- Asturian: Kandahar
- Azerbaijani: Qəndəhar
- Bashkir: Ҡандағар
- Bashkir: Ҡандаһар
- Basque: Kandahar
- Belarusian: Кандагар
- Bengali: কান্দাহার
- Bosnian: Kandahar
- Bulgarian: Кандахар
- Burmese: ကန်ဒါဟာမြို့
- Catalan: Kandahar
- Catalan: Kandahār
- Catalan: Qandahar
- Catalan: Qandahār
- Cebuano: Kandahār
- Central Kurdish: قەندەهار
- Chinese: 坎大哈
- Chinese: 坎達哈
- Chinese: 堪達哈
- Croatian: Kandahar
- Czech: Kandahár
- Czech: Kándahár
- Danish: Kandahar
- Dimli (individual language): Kendehar
- Dutch: Kandahar
- Egyptian Arabic: قندهار
- Esperanto: Kandahar
- Esperanto: Kandaharo
- Estonian: Kandahar
- Estonian: Kandahār
- Estonian: Qandahār
- Finnish: Kandahar
- Finnish: Qandahar
- Finnish: Quandahar
- French: Kandahar
- French: Kandahâr
- French: Kandahār
- French: Qandahar
- French: Qandahār
- Georgian: კანდაგარი
- Georgian: ყანდაარი
- German: Kandahar
- Greek: Κανταχάρ
- Gujarati: કંદહાર
- Hausa: Kandahar
- Hebrew: אלכסנדרופוליס
- Hebrew: קנדאהר
- Hebrew: קנדהאר
- Hebrew: קנדהר
- Hindi: कंदहार
- Hindi: कंधार
- Hindi: कन्दहार
- Hindi: कन्दाहार
- Hindi: कन्धार
- Hindi: कांधार
- Hungarian: Kandahár
- Icelandic: Kandahar
- Indonesian: Kandahar
- Irish: Kandahar
- Italian: Alessandria Arachosia
- Italian: Kandahar
- Italian: Qandahar
- Japanese: カンダハ���
- Japanese: カンダハール
- Kalaallisut: Kandahar
- Kannada: ಕಂದಹಾರ್
- Kannada: ಕಾಂದಹಾರ್
- Kirghiz: Кандагар
- Korean: 칸다하르
- Kurdish: Qendehar
- Latin: Alexandria apud Arachotos
- Latin: Candaharia
- Latvian: Kandahar
- Latvian: Kandahara
- Latvian: Kandahāra
- Lithuanian: Kandaharas
- Lithuanian: Qandahar
- Lombard: Kandahar
- Macedonian: Кандахар
- Malay: Kandahar
- Malayalam: Kandahar
- Malayalam: കണ്ടഹാർ
- Malayalam: കന്ദഹാർ
- Malayalam: കാണ്ഡഹാർ
- Malayalam: ഖണ്ഡഹാർ
- Malayalam: ഖന്ദഹാർ
- Maori: Kandahar
- Marathi: कंदहार
- Marathi: कंदाहार
- Mazanderani: قندهار
- Mingrelian: ყანდაარი
- Mongolian: Кандахар
- Nauru: Kandahar
- Nepali: कन्दहार
- Nepali: कन्दाहार
- Norwegian: Kandahar
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kandahar
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kandahar
- Occitan (post 1500): Kandahar
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Alexandria Arachosia
- Ossetian: Кандагар
- Panjabi: ਕੰਧਾਰ
- Persian: قندهار
- Persian: كندهار
- Persian: کندهار
- Piemontese: Kandahar
- Polish: Aleksandria w Arachozji
- Polish: Kandahar
- Portuguese: Candaar
- Portuguese: Kandahar
- Pushto: قندهار
- Pushto: کندهار
- Quechua: Kandahar
- Romanian: Kandahar
- Russian: Кандагар
- Russian: Кандахар
- Santali: ᱠᱟᱱᱫᱟᱦᱟᱨ
- Scots: Kandahar
- Serbian: Кандахар
- Serbo-Croatian: Kandahar
- Sindhi: قندھار
- Sindhi: قنڌار
- Sindhi: ڪندهار
- Sindhi: گنڌار
- Sinhala: කන්ඩාහර්
- Slovak: Kandahár
- Slovenian: Kandahar
- South Azerbaijani: قندهار
- Spanish: Alejandria de Aracosia
- Spanish: Alejandría de Aracosia
- Spanish: Candahar
- Spanish: Kandaha-r
- Spanish: Kandahar
- Spanish: Kandaha r
- Spanish: Kandahār
- Spanish: Qandahar
- Spanish: Qandahār
- Swedish: Kandahar
- Swedish: Qandahar
- Tagalog: Kandahar
- Tajik: Сафари қандиҳор
- Tajik: Қандаҳор
- Tamil: கந்தஹார்
- Tamil: காந்தாரம்
- Tatar: Кандаһар
- Tatar: Кәндәһар
- Telugu: కాందహార్
- Thai: กันดะฮาร์
- Turkish: Kandahar
- Turkish: Kandehar
- Ukrainian: Кандагар
- Urdu: قندھار
- Urdu: قندہار
- Uzbek: Qandahor
- Venetian: Kandahar
- Vietnamese: Kandahar
- Waray (Philippines): Kandahar
- Western Panjabi: قندھار
- Wu Chinese: 坎大哈
- Yue Chinese: 坎大哈
Other Places Named Kandahar
Locales in the Area
- 4th DistrictSuburb
- 14th DistrictSuburb
- 1st DistrictSuburb
- 3rd DistrictSuburb
- 2nd DistrictSuburb
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