Kabul: Neighbourhood
Places and attractions in the Neighbourhood category
Wazir Akbar Khan
Wazir Akbar Khan is a neighbourhood in northern Kabul, Afghanistan, forming part of District 10. It is named after the 19th century Afghan Emir Wazir Akbar Khan. It is one of the wealthiest parts in Kabul. Many foreign embassies were located there before the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, including the American and Canadian.
Deh Sabz District
Deh Sabz District is situated northeast of Kabul City in Afghanistan. It has a population of 100,136 people. About 70% are Pashtuns and 30% are Tajiks.
Bagrami District
Bagrami District is located in the central part of Kabul Province in Afghanistan. It is approximately a 30-minute drive east from the capital city, Kabul. The district headquarters is the town of Bagrami.
Char Asiab District
Char Asiab District is a district, approximately 11 km south of the city of Kabul, and is situated in the southern part of Kabul province, Afghanistan. It has a population of 32,500 people. The majority are Pashtuns, followed by Tajiks as well as a few Hazaras.
Dashte Barchi
Dashte Barchi is a settlement located in western Kabul, Afghanistan. Previously barren and agricultural, Dashte Barchi became populated in the early 2000s by newcomers from the provinces, mostly ethnic Hazaras from Maidan Wardak, Ghazni and Parwan, and some Kochi Pashtuns. It is mostly informally-developed.
Darulaman
Darulaman is a locality in the south-western fringes of Kabul, Afghanistan, forming part of District 6. The suburb was a planned city built in the 1920s under King Amanullah Khan.
Taimani
Taimani, also spelled Taimany and also called Proja-e-Taimany or Taimani Project, is a locality in north-western Kabul, Afghanistan. It forms part of administrative District 4. Taimani is located near Shahr-e-Naw, Kolola Pushta, and Khair Khana.
Chindawol
Chindawol or Chendavol is a neighborhood in the older section of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Kārte Seh
Kārte Seh, is a neighborhood in western Kabul, Afghanistan, part of District 6. It is a planned and middle-class settlement and is associated with Afghanistan's Shia Hazara minority. Karte Seh is also famous for being the site of the orphanage Aziza is sent to in Khaled Hosseini's novel A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Afshar
Afshar, is a hillside settlement situated in western Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Most of its population are of the Shia-Afshar ethnic group.
Ahmad Shah Baba Mina
Ahmad Shah Baba Mina, formerly known as Arzan Qimat, is a neighborhood in far eastern Kabul, nearby the Pul-e-Charkhi prison. Formerly a village, the area has become a modern township with new buildings, an asphalt way and many markets and shops. It is named after Ahmad Shah Durrani, founder of Afghanistan.
Shash Darak
Shash Darak is a neighborhood located in District 2 of Kabul, Afghanistan, and includes some of the more important buildings in Kabul, including the palace, the headquarters of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, the Afghan Defence Ministry and the CIA's Afghan station.
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Region: Kabul