A landlocked country in Central Asia. Official name: Afghanistan. Capital: Kabul. Official languages: Persian (Dari), Pashto
a country in Asia that is west of Pakistan and east of Iran. Population: 26,800,000 (2001). Capital: Kabul. officially Islamic State of Afghanistan Country, south-central Asia
a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south; "Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979
() Afghan is believed by many modern Indic scholars to have been derived from a Sanskrit term Ashvakan though, some people claim its origin from the Turkic word Avagan (“Original”) or else from the Latin word Alban (“mountaineers”); + Persian suffix -stan. Compare Persian افغانستان (Afghanistan, “land of Afghans”) See: Wikipedia article on Etymology of Afghanistan. Also see: