Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The central Afghan highlands, or the Afghan Highlands (Dari/Persian: افغانستان کوهستانی; Pashto: غرنی افغانستان), is a geographic region of Afghanistan. Stretching from the Sabzak Pass near Herat in the west to the Little Pamir in the northeast, it includes the main Hindu Kush range and forms a western extension of ...
The Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands ecoregion (WWF ID: PA1309) covers the xeric (dry) eastern and southern slopes of the central mountain range of Afghanistan, between the sandy desert to the south and the alpine meadows in the higher, wetter region to the north.
Afghanistan is a landlocked mountainous country located on the Iranian Plateau, [6] at the crossroads of Central Asia [7] [8] and South Asia. [9] [10] The country is the 40th largest in the world in size.
Hindu Kush (top right) and its extending mountain ranges like Selseleh-ye Safīd Kūh or Koh-i-Baba to the west. The Hindu Kush is an 800-kilometre-long (500 mi) mountain range in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas. It stretches from central and eastern Afghanistan [2] [3] into northwestern Pakistan and far southeastern Tajikistan.
The Hazara people [5] and surrounding peoples use the names "Hazarajat" or "Hazaristan" to identify the historic Hazara lands. "Hazarajat" is a compound of "Hazara" and the Persian suffix "jat", [6] which is used to make words associated with land in the south, central and west Asia [7] [need quotation to verify] and "Hazaristan" is a compound of "Hazara" and the Persian suffix ـستان ...
Further north in Afghanistan is the Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands ecoregion (xeric being 'dry'). Along the east side is the Northwestern thorn scrub forests . In the middle of the ecoregion, along the tops of the highest ridges are isolated patches of two wetter ecoregions – the East Afghan montane conifer forests and Sulaiman ...
The majority of the valleys are located in parts of northeastern, central, southern and southeastern Afghanistan. [ citation needed ] The southeastern areas are wetter and are covered by forest with trees such as cypress , oak , poplar , pine etc. [ citation needed ] The valleys are the most populated regions in the country, and much of the ...
The Koh-i-Baba range of mountains is the western extension across Afghanistan of the Hindu Kush mountains. Elevations range from a low of 1,248 metres (4,094 ft) to a high of 4,868 metres (15,971 ft), with an average of 2,970 metres (9,740 ft). [3]