Kandahar Province

Kandahar or Qandahar () () is ane o the lairgest o the thirty-fower provinces o Afghanistan. It is locatit in soothren Afghanistan, atween Helmand, Oruzgan an Zabul provinces. Its caipital is the ceety o Kandahar, which is locatit on the Arghandab River. The province haes a population o nearly 913,000, wi ower 800,000 livin in its caipital ceety. The main inhabitants o Kandahar province are the Pashtuns.

Name
There is speculation aboot the oreegin o the name "Kandahar". It is believed that Kandahar bears Alexander's name, an derives frae the Pashto renderin o Iskandariya or Alexandria.Alexander the Great: his towns - Alexandria in Arachosia...Link A temple tae the deifee'd Alexander as well as an inscription in Greek an Aramaic bi the emperor Ashoka, who lived a few decades later, hae been discovered in the auld citadel.Ashoka's Rock Edicts...Link  Alternatively, it is believed that "Kandahar" mey derive its name frae Gandhara, an auncient kinrick alang the modren Kashmir an Afghanistan border,Gandara...Link  and former satrapy of the Persian Empire.W. Vogelsang, "Gandahar", in The Circle Of Ancient Iranian StudiesE. Herzfeld, "The Persian Empire: Studies on Geography and Ethnography of the Ancient Near East", ed. G. Walser, Wiesbaden 1968, pp. 279, 293-94, 336-38, 345 It is suggestit that fowk o Gandhara migratit sooth tae Arachosia an transferred the name wi them.

Destricts
The follaein is a leet o the destricts o Kandahar Province:
300px|thumb|right|Destricts o Kandahar.

 Destricts o Kandahar ProvinceDestrictCaipitalPopulationKandahar PDP Provincial profile, MRRD - National Area Base Development ProgrammeAurieAfghanistan Geographic & Thematic LayersNotesArghandab    51,600    Arghistan    28,900    Daman    24,800    Ghorak    8,000    Kandahar    468,200    Khakrez    19,200    Maruf    27,700    Maywand    40,700    Miyan Nasheen    12,600    Creatit in 2005 athin Shah Wali Kot DestrictNaish    11,300    Transferred frae Oruzgan Province in 2005Panjwaye    82,800    Reg    1,600    Shah Wali Kot    36,400    Sub-divided in 2005Shorabak    9,600    Spin Boldak    41,000    Zhari    49,500    Creatit in 2005 frae pairts o Maywand an Panjwaye Destricts

Notes

 Freemit airtins 
 The Taliban's Campaign for Kandahar 

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