Map of Afghanistan

Afghanistan is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 33.0° N, 65.0° E. Afghanistan is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 6 neighbours — China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — with no coastline of its own. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Afghanistan is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Afghanistan is surrounded by the following 6 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Afghanistan covers about 652,230 km² (251,827 sq mi). That makes it the 40th-largest country in the world by area and the 11th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 38 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 43,844,000, the 36th-largest in the world and the 15th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.9% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Afghanistan has an average population density of about 67 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 15th by population and 11th by area.

The seat of government is Kabul, and the official currency is the Afghan afghani (AFN, ؋), and the main official languages are Dari, Pashto and Turkmen. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+04:30.

Afghanistan carries the ISO country codes AF and AFG, dials on the international calling code +93 and uses the .af internet domain.

Afghanistan shares its land borders with 6 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are China (capital Beijing, about 1,408,280,000 people), Pakistan (capital Islamabad, about 241,499,431 people), Iran (capital Tehran, about 85,961,000 people), Uzbekistan (capital Tashkent, about 37,859,698 people), Tajikistan (capital Dushanbe, about 10,499,000 people) and Turkmenistan (capital Ashgabat, about 7,057,841 people).

By area, Afghanistan is larger than 3 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 33.0° N, 65.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Afghanistan within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Kabul. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Afghanistan lies about 3,663 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Afghanistan keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+04:30. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +04:30 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Afghan afghani (AFN, ؋).

The official languages are Dari, Pashto and Turkmen, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +93 and websites commonly use the .af internet domain.

In short, Afghanistan is a landlocked country in Asia, sharing land borders with 6 countries. Its capital is Kabul. Afghanistan has a population of about 43,844,000 and covers around 652,230 km² (251,827 sq mi), ranking it 36th in the world by population and 40th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Afghanistan.

The flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has a white field with Arabic inscriptions — the Shahada — in black across its center.

The flag of Afghanistan is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.