Kandahar
Facts
18 properties- Country
- Afghanistan[3]
- Official website
- kandahar.gov.af[9]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 31.621°, 65.716°
- Capital of
- Kandahar Province, Durrani Empire, Hotak dynasty, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Principality of Qandahar[27][28]
- Area
- +800[35]
- Demonym
- کندهاریان[31]
- Described by source
- Otto's encyclopedia, Sytin Military Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5, Pauly–Wissowa, The World Atlas[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
- Elevation above sea level
- +1010[34]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Kandahar Province[2]
- Native label
- کندهار[32]
- Replaces
- Alexandria Arachosia[26]
- Significant event
- Siege of Kandahar[8]
- Social media followers
- +17245
- VIAF cluster ID
- 134903120
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n83042981
- GND ID
- 4109990-4
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 15321973q
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Kandahar
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- kandahar
- Facebook username
- Kandahar.mediaoffice
- FactGrid item ID
- Karl Friedrich von Kübeck
- France 24 topic ID (French)
- kandahar
- Freebase ID
- /m/04dj2
- GADM ID
- AFG.15_1
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -3379064
Show all 50 identifiers +38
- GeoNames ID
- 1138336
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 1001493
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- qandahar-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0053473
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Kandahar
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 2041084
- Harper's tag
- kandahar, kandahar-afghanistan
- Hikr waypoint ID
- 65340
- INaturalist place ID
- 13586
- IdRef ID
- 158141245
- Interlingual Index ID
- i82645
- KBpedia ID
- Kandahar-ProvinceAfghanistan
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
- 11414
- Larousse ID
- ville/wd/126510
- Lex ID
- Kandahar
- Museum-digital place ID
- 1804
- MusicBrainz area ID
- a8809616-2bd6-401a-b348-cea47df47697
- NE.se ID
- kandahar
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge307111
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007536659905171
- Numista mint ID
- 5439
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3919779
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 6588481
- Pleiades ID
- 59669
- Quora topic ID
- Kandahar-Afghanistan
- RKD thesaurus ID
- 94695
- SNARC ID
- 1980 Summer Olympics
- TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
- kandehar
- Topic's main category
- Category:Kandahar
- Trismegistos Geo ID
- 37191
- U.S. National Archives Identifier
- 10044392
- UN/LOCODE
- AFKDH
- WOEID
- 1935376
- Who's on First ID
- 421186119
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 08722223-n
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJymwFmRCvDVrrqbwgFHYP
- X (Twitter) username
- KandaharMedia
- Yale LUX ID
- place/db0bc169-3154-4797-9458-1ac642d4d65e
People born here 42
People who died here 19
Located in this place 10
Contained subdivisions 7
← Capital 6
Capital of 5
Described by source 4
← Category combines topics 4
Twinned administrative body 3
← Ancestral home 2
← Place of burial 2
← Twinned administrative body 2
Category for people born here 1
Category for people who died here 1
Category of associated people 1
Country 1
Different from 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Located in time zone 1
Named after 1
Replaces 1
SNARC ID 1
Significant event 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Headquarters location 1
← Location of formation 1
← Narrative location 1
← Official residence 1
← Place served by transport hub 1
← Replaced by 1
← SNARC ID 1
← Work location 1
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Summary
Kandahar is a city[1].
Body
Cultural Significance
Things named for Kandahar include Kandahar International Airport[36], an international airport[37], in Afghanistan[38].
Why It Matters
Entities named for Kandahar include Kandahar International Airport[36], an international airport[37], in Afghanistan[38].
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served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold
evidence “On September 6, just five days before the attack, KSM traveled to Kandahar, Afghanistan, from Karachi, Pakistan, to tell Osama bin Laden face-to-face.” newsweek.com · read source
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evidence “What began as border skirmishes and mutual accusations over the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) escalated in February 2026 into open warfare — Pakistani airstrikes on Kabul, Kandahar and other Afghan provinces, hundreds of civilian casualties, well over a hundred thousand people displaced, and a border that has been substantially closed ever since.” newscentralasia.net · read source