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Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

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/ref> * Ab-i Istada, Ab-i-Estada Nature Reserve, Ghazni Province * Ajar Valley Nature Reserve, Bamyan Province * Bamiyan National Heritage Park, Bamyan Province *

Bamiyan Plateau Protected Landscape Bamyan or Bamyan Valley (); ( prs, بامیان) also spelled Bamiyan or Bamian is the capital of Bamyan Province in central Afghanistan. Its population of approximately 70,000 people makes it the largest city in Hazarajat. Bamyan is at an alti ...

, Bamyan Province *

Band-e Amir National Park __NOTOC__ Band-e Amir National Park ( fa, بند امیر) Afghanistan established its first national park on April 22, 2009, to promote and protect the natural beauty of a series of intensely blue lakes created by natural dams high in the Hindu ...

, Bamyan Province * Darqad (Takhar) Wildlife Reserve, Takhar Province * Dasht-i-Nawar Waterfowl Sanctuary, Ghazni Province * Hamun-i-Puzak Waterfowl Sanctuary, Farah and Nimroz provinces *

Imam Sahib (Kunduz) Wildlife Reserve Imām Ṣāhib (Pashto/ fa, امام صاحب) is a town in the Kunduz Province of Afghanistan, center of the Imam Sahib District. It is sometimes called Khwaja or Hazrat.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Geonames database entry.search Acc ...

, Kunduz Province * Khulm Landmark Protected Area, Balkh Province * Koh-e Baba (Shah Foladi) Protected Landscape, Bamyan province * Kol-i-Hashmat Khan Waterfowl Sanctuary, Kabul Province *

Northwest Afghanistan Game Managed Reserve The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each se ...

, Herat Province *

Nuristan National Park and Wildlife Reserve Nuristan, also spelled as Nurestan or Nooristan (Dari: ; Kamkata-vari: ), is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. It is divided into seven districts and is Afghanistan's least populous province, w ...

, Nuristan Province * Pamir-i-Buzurg Wildlife Reserve, Badakhshan Province * Registan Desert Wildlife Managed Reserve, Kandahar Province *

Wakhan National Park __NOTOC__ Wakhan National Park is a national park in Afghanistan. Established in 2014, the park comprises the entire district of Wakhan, extending along the Wakhan Corridor between the Pamir mountains and the Hindu Kush, bordering Tajikistan t ...

, Badakhshan Province * Zadran National Reserve, Paktia Province

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