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Kunduz

city in northern Afghanistan
City City Q108155

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
city
Native label
کندز[17]

Location

Country
Afghanistan, Hephthalites[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 36.729°, 68.857°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Kunduz District, Kunduz Province[1][2]

Population and size

Elevation above sea level
+397, +402[18][19]
Population
+356536, +53251[6][7]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 356,536 · 53,251 GeoNames 161,902 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
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Capital of
Hephthalites, Kunduz Province, Kanat de Kunduz, Kunduz District[13][14][15][16]
Described by source
Gujin Tushu Jicheng, History of Ming, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The World Atlas[9][10][11][12]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Afghanistan, WikiProject Cities, WikiProject Central Asia[20][21][22]
Significant event
Siege of Kunduz, 2021 Kunduz mosque bombing[4][5]
Time of earliest written record
329 BC[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Kunduz ar قندوز cs Kundúz cs Kunduz da Kondoz de Kundus de Kunduz el Κουντούζ es Konduz es Kondoz es Qonduz es Qunduz fa قندز fa قندوز fa كندز fa کندوز fi Kondoz fi Konduz fi Kunduz fr Koundouz
🔖 Identifiers · 23
VIAF cluster ID
152543776
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n87929913
GND ID
4799021-1
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Afghan Business School Kunduz.jpg ↗
BBC Things ID
4c5d7350-a977-47ec-b08a-2d6fee0723bb
Freebase ID
/m/01g8_p
GNS Unique Feature ID
-3381731
GeoNames ID
1135689
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Konduz
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID
199
J9U entity ID
987007564968905171
KBpedia ID
Kondoz-ProvinceAfghanistan
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OpenStreetMap node ID
271741224
OpenWeatherMap city ID
1135689
Pleiades ID
971746
Quora topic ID
Kunduz-Afghanistan
SNARC ID
Georg Kreisler
Topic's main category
Category:Kunduz
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10036661
UN/LOCODE
AFUND
Who's on First ID
421168793
Wikimapia ID
657196
Yale LUX ID
place/c79b3e31-a492-4e5d-9a33-4398c78e6b04

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🔗 Connections
Located in this place 5
2021 Kunduz mosque bombing, 2015 bombing of Médecins Sans Frontières hospital, Battle of Kunduz, 201st Military Base, Siege of Kunduz
People born here 4
Fatima Aziz, Javed Ahmadi, Mirwais Ashraf, Najiba Faiz
Capital of 3
Kunduz Province, Hephthalites, Kunduz District
Described by source 3
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, History of Ming, Gujin Tushu Jicheng
People who died here 3
Jumma Kasimov, Yukuk Shad, Tardush Shad
← Capital 3
Kunduz Province, Hephthalites, Kunduz District
Country 2
Afghanistan, Hephthalites
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Kunduz Province, Kunduz District
Named after 2
Kunduz Airport, Battle of Kunduz
Significant event 2
2021 Kunduz mosque bombing, Siege of Kunduz
Instance of 1
city
Located in time zone 1
UTC+04:30
SNARC ID 1
Georg Kreisler
← FactGrid item ID 1
Brissac-Quincé
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Cultural Significance

Things named for Kunduz include Battle of Kunduz[23], a battle[24], in Afghanistan[25] and Kunduz Airport[26], a commercial traffic aerodrome[27], in Afghanistan[28].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Kunduz include Battle of Kunduz[23], a battle[24], in Afghanistan[25] and Kunduz Airport[26], a commercial traffic aerodrome[27], in Afghanistan[28].

Related Entities

Afghanistan city

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
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  7. [7] ↑ . First Population Census of Afghanistan (1979). wikidata.org.
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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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  1. 15w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by WikiProject → WikiProject Afghanistan, WikiProject Cities, WikiProject Central Asia
    Located in time zone → —
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #43894: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 18w ago · Treisijs · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by WikiProject → WikiProject Afghanistan, WikiProject Cities, WikiProject Central Asia
    "Created claim: Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Afghanistan"
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