1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Afghanistan
Compare this sourced profile of Kabul, Afghanistan before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Kabul—4,434,550, Asia/Kabul, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital and the largest city of Afghanistan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kabul is GeoNames ID 1138958. Its recorded administrative path is Kabul → Afghanistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Kabul occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2024-11-12; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Kabul ranks 72 by recorded population. Inside the 4 selected Afghanistan entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 47. Its 4,434,550 population value is 8.08 times the 548,800 median for the country cohort and 4.40 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kabul is rank 1 among the 4 selected Afghanistan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Kabul's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kabul's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bannu at 216.675 km with 1,357,890 recorded people; Peshawar at 228.541 km with 4,758,762 recorded people; Mazār-e Sharīf at 305.81 km with 523,300 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 89.135 km. Compared with Bannu, Kabul's recorded population is 3.27 times as large. Against Kabul, Bannu follows Bannu District → Khyber Pakhtunkhwa → Pakistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Pakistan cohort rather than Afghanistan, uses Asia/Karachi instead of Asia/Kabul, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kabul's. Against Kabul, Peshawar follows Peshawar District → Khyber Pakhtunkhwa → Pakistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Pakistan cohort rather than Afghanistan, uses Asia/Karachi instead of Asia/Kabul, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Kabul's. Against Kabul, Mazār-e Sharīf follows Mazar-e Sharif → Balkh → Afghanistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Afghanistan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Kabul identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kabul's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,028 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kabul's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1138958, the coordinate pair 34.5281 / 69.1723, country rank 1 of 4, and neighbor GeoNames 1183460 at 216.675 km bind Kabul to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kabul's reference point is 34.5281° north and 69.1723° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Kabul is shared by 4 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Kabul's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kabul's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kabul's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kabul, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Kabul's closest other entries in this atlas are Bannu (216.675 km), Peshawar (228.541 km), Mazār-e Sharīf (305.81 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-11-12; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.