page_title: Districts of Afghanistan
section_title: Kandahar Province
hierarchical_section_title: Districts of Afghanistan / Southern Afghanistan / South West Afghanistan / Kandahar Province
context_page_description: This is a list of districts of Afghanistan, known as wuleswali. These are secondary level administrative units, one level below the provinces. The Afghan government issued its first district map in 1973. It recognized 325 districts, counting wuleswalis, alaqadaries, and markaz-e-wulaiyat. In the ensuing years additional districts have been added through splits, and a few eliminated through mergers. In June 2005, the Afghan government issued a map of 398 districts. It was widely adopted as by many information management systems, though usually with the addition of Sharak-e-Hayratan for a 399 district total. Here is a link to a clean rendering of the 399 district set as a spreadsheet from an official Afghan source. It remains the de facto standard, as of late 2018, despite a string of government announcements of the creation of new districts.
  The latest set includes 421 districts. "Almost unnoticed, the country’s Central Statistics Office and the Independent Directorate of Local Governance have come up with a joint, consolidated list of how many districts Afghanistan has. It has handed this list over to the Independent Election Commission that has used it in preparing the elections.
context_section_description: Arghandab
  Dand
  Arghistan
  Daman
  Ghorak
  Kandahar
  Khakrez
  Maruf
  Maywand
  Miyan Nasheen - formerly part of Shah Wali Kot District
  Naish - shifted from Oruzgan Province
  Panjwaye
  Reg
  Shah Wali Kot
  Shorabak
  Spin Boldak
  Zhari - created from parts of Maywand and Panjwaye Districts
caption: Districts of Kandahar.
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