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List of splits and creations of districts in Afghanistan

This list identifies the province and district splits and reassignments made by the Afghan government in revising and remapping its administrative divisions in the early 2000s. In June 2005, the Afghan government issued a map of the 34 provinces and 398 districts of Afghanistan.[1][2] This list compares that 398 district set to an earlier one produced by UNDP's AIMS in 1998, which had recognized 32 provinces and 329 districts.[3] The 2005 version included the new provinces of Daikundi and Panjsher, and seventy new districts. Yet more districts have been decreed since 2005.[4] Those newer splits are not recorded here.

Northern Mainland Afghanistan edit

North Eastern Afghanistan edit

Badakhshan Province edit

Baghlan Province edit

Kunduz Province edit

  • There weren't any changes within Kunduz Province.

Takhar Province edit

North Western Afghanistan edit

Balkh Province edit

Faryab Province edit

Jowzjan Province edit

Samangan Province edit

Sare Pol Province edit

Central Mainland Afghanistan edit

Central Afghanistan edit

Kabul Province edit

Kapisa Province edit

Logar Province edit

Panjshir Province edit

Note - All former districts were shifted from Parwan Province.

Parwan Province edit

Wardak Province edit

  • Jaghatu District was shifted from Ghazni Province.

Eastern Afghanistan edit

Kunar Province edit

Laghman Province edit

  • There weren't any changes within Laghman Province.

Nangarhar Province edit

Nuristan Province edit

Western Afghanistan edit

Badghis Province edit

  • There weren't any changes within Badghis Province.

Bamyan Province edit

  • Sayghan District was split-off from Kahmard District, formerly from Baghlan Province.

Farah Province edit

  • There weren't any changes within Farah Province.

Ghor Province edit

Herat Province edit

  • There weren't any changes within Herat Province.

Southern Mainland Afghanistan edit

South Eastern Afghanistan edit

Ghazni Province edit

Khost Province edit

  • Shamal District was shifted from Paktia Province.

Paktia Province edit

  • Ahmadabad District was split-off from Sayed Karam District.
  • Azra District was transferred to Logar Province.
  • Shamal District was transferred to Khost Province.

Paktika Province edit

South Western Afghanistan edit

Daykundi Province edit

Note - All former districts were shifted from Orūzgān Province.

Helmand Province edit

  • There weren't any changes within Helmand Province.

Kandahar Province edit

Nimruz Province edit

  • There weren't any changes within Nimruz Province.

Orūzgān Province edit

  • Gizab District was transferred to Daykundi Province; later returned in 2006.
  • Daykundi District was transferred to Daykundi Province.
  • Kajran District was transferred to Daykundi Province.
  • Shahristan District was transferred to Daykundi Province.
  • Naish District was transferred to Kandahar Province.

Zabul Province edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ (1) Afghanistan - Estimated Population 2016/2017, UN OCHA Afghanistan, 8/11/16 The population report, an Excel file, is essentially the 34 province, 398 district set, but with the addition of Sharak-e-Hayratan in Balkh. The 398 set was originally issued in 6/05 by the Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Head Office (AGCHO). No link available.
  2. ^ (2) The 399 district set, was republished by AGCHO with improved boundaries in 2012. The link is to a digital shapefile posted by UN OCHA to its HDX website.
  3. ^ (3) The 329 district set by AIMS (Afghanistan Information Management Services) of 1998, as a digital shapefile from Princeton's Empirical Studies of Conflict site, accessed 6/01/18. AIMS itself is now defunct.
  4. ^ (4) Afghanistan District Maps reviews subsequent district sets. Accessed 2/15/19.
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