Geography : landlocked; the Hindu Kush mountains that run northeast to southwest divide the northern provinces from the rest of the country; the highest peaks are in the northern Vakhan (Wakhan Corridor)
Population : 29,835,392
Current government type : Afghanistan is an Islamic Republic currently with a parliament. But the Taliban have taken over and threaten the government.
Political state : Afganistans political system is republic country. A Republic system, is when not a monarch or other hereditary head of state.
Education and literacy rates : age 15 and over can read and write total population: 28.1% male: 43.1% female: 12.6% (2000 est.)
Languages : Afghan Persian or Dari 50% , Pashto 35% , Turkic languages 11% , 30 minor languages 4% , much bilingualism .
Religions : Sunni Muslim 80% , Shia Muslim 19% , other 1%
Birth rates : 37.83 births/1,000 population
Death rates : 17.39 deaths/1,000 population
Life expectancy : 45.02 years
Ethnic groups : Pashtun 42% , Tajik 27% , Hazara 9% , Uzbek 9% , Aimak 4% , Turkmen 3% , Baloch 2% , other 4% .
Legal system : based on mixed civil and sharia law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction .
Suffrage(voting rights) : 18 years of age; universal .
Unemployment rate : 35%
Population below poverty line : 36%
Industries : small-scale production of textiles, soap, furniture, shoes, fertilizer, apparel, food-products, non-alcoholic beverages, mineral water, cement; handwoven carpets; natural gas, coal, copper .
Communications : The communication in Afghanistan has dramatically increased and modernized with 129,000 telephone main line use.12 million of mobile use. They also communicate through radio, internet, television, and postal service .
Military service : military branches, Afghan Armed Forces: Afghan National Army (ANA, includes Afghan Air Force )AAF). Military service and obligation, 22 years of age; inductees are contracted into service for a 4-year term.
Transnational issues : Pakistan , Afghan, and Coalition military meet periodically to clarify the alignment of the boundary on the ground and on maps; Afghan and Iranian commissioners have discussed boundary monument densification and resurvey; Iran protests Afghanistan's restricting flow of dammed Helmand River tributaries during drought; Pakistan has sent troops across and built fences along some remote tribal areas of its treaty-defined Durand Line border with Afghanistan which serve as bases for foreign terrorists and other illegal activities.
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