Local short name form

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International telephone access code

ISO 3166 country codes

Car nationality plate code

Internet country code

GRC Country Code

   Note: This section last updated 17th March 2021

   1,234.45

(where , indicates the decimal separator and . the thousands separator)

   ۱٫۲۳۴٬۴۵

(where ٬ indicates the decimal separator and ٫ the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 17th March 2021

   yyyy/mm/dd

   14:32

The official languages are Dari (Farsi) , with some 5.6 million speakers; and Northern and Southern Pashto with some 8 million speakers. Dari is used for business and government transactions. Both use Arabic script. 47 other languages are spoken, the main ones being Hazaragi (1.4 millions speakers); Turkmen (0.5 million speakers) and Southern Uzbek (1.4 million speakers).

Afghans traditionally have no family names. If they do, they are written after the given name, and women traditionally take their husband’s upon marriage.

   Tables of names can be acquired: given names , surnames/family names , family name prefixes , forms of address , job titles 

   Note: This section last updated 23rd March 2020

BBC news story (29th September 2011) about the difficulties of delivering post in Kabul, where fews streets have names or buildings numbers.

Where there’s a will, there’s a delivery - delivery post in Kabul where most streets are unnamed and most buildings unnumbered. Gulf Times, 25th February 2015

Many areas, particularly outside cities, have no street names or numbered buildings.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

   Note: This section last updated 13th May 2020

Afghani postal codes, introduced on 21st March 2011, have four digits. The first two digits (between 10 and 43) are assigned by province (please see the table below in the Administrative Districts section). Where the final two numbers fall between 01 and 50 delivery is to a city and delivery zone. For those ending between 51 and 99 delivery is to districts and delivery zones outside the urban areas.

The code is written on its own on the last line of the address block.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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   Note: This section last updated 20th August 2014

Refer to Exonyms in Afghanistan for full lists of place names in Afghanistan in other languages.

   Note: This section last updated 22nd March 2020

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   Note: This section last updated 26th April 2017

Afghan area codes have 2 digits when called from abroad, and subscriber numbers have 7 digits.

Mobile numbers have the area codes 70-79.