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Afghanistan, [d] officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, [e] is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.Referred to as the Heart of Asia, [26] it is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, [f] Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east.
Geography of Afghanistan. / 33.000°N 65.000°E / 33.000; 65.000. 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. Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, located in ...
Global Peace Index ( GPI) is a report produced by the Australia-based NGO Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. [ 2] The GPI ranks 163 independent states and territories (collectively accounting for 99.7 per cent of the world's population) according to their levels of ...
The Human Development Report includes data for all 193 member states of the United Nations, [ 16] as well as Hong Kong SAR and the State of Palestine. However, the Human Development Index is not calculated for two UN member states: DPR Korea (North Korea) and Monaco, only some components of the index are calculated for these two countries.
Geography of Iraq. Coordinates: 33°00′N 44°00′E. Overview map of Iraq. Topography of Iraq. The geography of Iraq is diverse and falls into five main regions: the desert (west of the Euphrates ), Upper Mesopotamia (between the upper Tigris and Euphrates rivers), the northern highlands of Iraq, Lower Mesopotamia, and the alluvial plain ...
In 2023, according to the Fragile States Index, Iraq was the world's 31th most politically unstable country. [234] Transparency International ranks Iraq's government as the 23rd most corrupt government in the world. [235] Under Saddam Hussein, the government employeed 1 million employees, but this increased to around 7 million in 2016.
The Taliban ( / ˈtælɪbæn, ˈtɑːlɪbɑːn /; Pashto: طَالِبَانْ, romanized: ṭālibān, lit. 'students'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, [ 78][ 79][ a] is an Afghan political and militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi ...
The 15 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year. [2] Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.