This document provides an overview of Afghanistan, including its location in Central Asia, government as an Islamic republic, and population of 30 million. It notes that Dari and Pashto are the official languages and Islam is the dominant religion. A brief history is given on human settlement dating back 50,000 years. Key details are provided on the government structure, provinces, currency, education system with over 8 million children in school, and economy with a focus on agriculture as the main industry employing over 70% of the population. Popular cultural aspects like greetings, clothing, foods including kabab and bolani, and sports such as cricket and buzkashi are also summarized.

1. AFGHANISTAN
By : Ezatullah Rabanizada
Research's Student
Faculty: Life and Environmental Science
Shimane University , Japan
28/10/2014

2. Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Flag Emblem

3. INTRODUCTION
NAME: Afghanistan
LOCATION: Central Asia, south Asia
GOVERNMENT: Islamic republic
AREA: 652,864 km2
CAPITAL: Kabul
POPULATION: 30 million
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Dari (official) 50%, Pashto (official) 35%, MAJOR
RELIGION(S): Muslim 99%, other 1%.
MAJOR ETHNIC GROUPS :Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek
9%, Aimak 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2%, other 4%.

5. HISTORY
From the Upper Paleolithic , Neolithic and Bronze Age , Afghanistan has always been a
corridor for trade between the Caspian culture, Bactrian and Indian . Between 1600
and 1000 BC, the country was inhabited by people of Indo-European origin. The main
economic activities were, until the twentieth century , grazing and cultivation of opium.
at least 50,000 years ago humans were living in Afghanistan
The first name of this country was Ariana and the second was Khorasan and finally the
name change to Afghanistan on 18 century.
The people how live in this this country is called Afghan.
advanced urbanized culture has existed since 3000-2000 BCE

6. Type of Government : Presidential
Mr. Dr. Ashraf Ghazni (Ahmad zai) is president and head of the nation

7. Afghan Parliament
Lower house/house of the people
It has god 250 members
Upper house/house of elders
It has god 102 members

8. The ancient satrapies (Provinces) of Afghanistan
Mazar-e-Sharif Ghazni
Herat
Kabul

9. Four Seasons

10. The currency of Afghanistan:Afghani

11. National Park
Band-e- Amir Wakhan

12. Touristic Places
Bodha, BAMIAN Band-e- Amir

13. Herat historical places

14. Mazar-e-Sharif Bost fortress HELMAND

15. Kabul

16. Ghazni

17. Kandahar

18. EDUCATION :
63% Population is educated and education is free from kindergarten to degree.
8million and 100 hundred children go to school 38% are girls, more than 14000 school, more than
190000 teacher.
81 Government and privet Universities are there in Afghanistan.
65% men and 48% women are educated.

20. AGRICULTURE
Afghanistan has always been a traditional economy, based on agriculture,
71.6% people are working in Agriculture sector and 9.7% industry, 18.7%
services.
Afghanistan has 75 billion cubic meters (BCM) annual water with 25 large
rivers, hundreds small rivers, about thousands canals and mountains full of
snows, estimates that this water supply is sufficient to irrigate
approximately 7.7 million hectares (ha) of land, significantly more than the
3.2 million ha that are currently irrigated. However, the challenge is
distribution of the water management so government of Afghanistan
attempt to achieve to these challenges, and I also come to Shimane
university, Japan to study and research about The calculation technique of
required amount of water in irrigation area to have efficiency role to
development of irrigation, Agriculture , economy and development of my
country.

21. AMO river Helmand river

22. Kabul river Murghub river Harirud river

23. Hindokush Mountains

24. Traditional Agriculture

25. Modern Agriculture

26. Afghan Fruit &export
Afghanistan is one of the leading producers of Fresh Fruit, Dry Fruit & Nuts
Nuts in the world.

30. Dry fruit : also make the biggest portion of Afghan exports

31. Copper, Gas, Coal, Precious stones And other natural elements are being
Exported to regional countries

32. Afghanistan exports wool, and pure silk

33. 45% of the exports makes Carpets & Rugs and 326$ million is income in a year.

35. CULTURE: GREETING &MEETING
Small talk almost always precedes any formal conversation.
It's appropriate to inquire about one's health, families, etc., before
dealing with business. The "get to the point" mentality is usually
seen as rude. Setting a friendly mood will get you a lot further than
trying to be direct about anything.

36. Custom (Clothing)

38. Foods
There is a lot of food the famous is Qabli Palow, Stick(Kabab) , Bolani, Ashak(Manto) vegetables and e.t.c
Kabab Qabli Palow

39. Bolani and Dogh Manto

40. Bread

41. Sport
Famous Sport: Bozkashi , Good at Cricket, Football, Taekwondo

43. Kite-fighting is also a popular pastime among Afghan youth

44. Holiday
Nawrouz, Religious Eids: Eid Fetr And Eid Adha , National day also there are some
other holydays and Friday is public holiday.

45. THANK YOU !