{| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0.5em 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" |+afghanistan |- | style="background:#efefef;" align=center" colspan="2" | {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" |- | align="center" width="140px" | thumb|250px|topographic map of afghanistan |} |- | continent || asia |- | region || central asia and south asia |- | geographic coordinates ||  |- | area&nbsp;- total &nbsp;- water | ranked 41st 0&nbsp;km2 (landlocked) |- | coastline || landlocked |- | countries bordered || pakistan , tajikistan , iran , turkmenistan , uzbekistan , china  |- | highest point || noshaq,  |- | lowest point || amu darya,  |- | longest river || helmand river |- | largest inland body of water || kajaki damdahla damnaghlu damband-e amirqargha |- | land use&nbsp;- arable land &nbsp;- permanent crops &nbsp;- other |(2005 estimates) 12.13% 0.21% 87.66% |- | irrigated land ||  |- | climate: || arid to semiarid |- | natural resources || natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, uranium, gold, silver, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semiprecious stoneafghanistan, cia world factbook.gold and copper discovered in afghanistanuranium mining issues: 2005 review[http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav090306.sht
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