Back مقاطعات أفغانستان Arabic আফগানিস্তানের জেলা Bengali/Bangla Districtes de l'Afganistan Catalan Distritos de Afganistán Spanish ولسوالیهای افغانستان Persian Liste des districts en Afghanistan French Distrik di Afganistan ID Distretti dell'Afghanistan Italian アフガニスタンの郡 Japanese Daerah di Afghanistan Malay
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The districts of Afghanistan, known as wuleswali (Pashto: ولسوالۍ, wuləswāləi; Persian: ولسوالی, wuləswālī), are secondary-level administrative units, one level below provinces. The Afghan government issued its first district map in 1973.[1] It recognized 325 districts, counting wuleswalis (districts), alaqadaries (sub-districts), and markaz-e-wulaiyat (provincial center districts).[2] In the ensuing years, additional districts have been added through splits, and some eliminated through merges. In June 2005, the Afghan government issued a map of 398 districts.[3] It was widely adopted by many information management systems, though usually with the addition of Sharak-e-Hayratan for 399 districts in total. It remains the de facto standard as of late 2018, despite a string of government announcements of the creation of new districts.[citation needed][4]
The latest announced set includes 421 districts. The country's Central Statistics Office (CSO) and the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) came up with a joint, consolidated list of Afghan districts. It has handed this list over to the Independent Election Commission (IEC), which has used it in preparing the elections. The set contains 387 "districts" and 34 "provincial center districts" for 412 districts in total.[5]
This article does not correspond with any particular district set; it lacks a number of districts currently recognized by the Afghan government, and some others that are popularly, but not officially, recognized.[why?]
- ^ Minor Civil Divisions Map 1:1,000,000 scale Afghan Demographic Studies, Ministry of Planning, Ashraf et al., 1973
- ^ Afghanistan Smart Book. TRADOC Culture Center. 2010.
- ^ "Administrative Boundaries: 398 Districts". Empirical Studies of Conflict program, Princeton University. Archived from the original on 20 December 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ^ "Local Governance Reform in Afghanistan and the 2018 Elections". United States Institute of Peace. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ Ruttig, Thomas (16 August 2018). "Good news and bad news about district numbers". Afghanistan Analysts Network. Retrieved 23 February 2019.