Puli Alam ( prs, پل علم), also spelled Pul-i-Alam or Pol-e Alam, is the provincial capital of
Logar Province,
Afghanistan as well as of
Puli Alam District
Puli Alam, also spelled Pul-i-Alam or Pol-e Alam, is a district of Logar Province, Afghanistan.
The population of Puli Alam is estimated at around 108,000, which is composed of Pashtuns, Tajiks and a few others. The capital of the district is Pu ...
. The population of the district is estimated to be around 108,000, and is composed of ethnic
Pashtuns
Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically re ...
and
Tajiks.
The city of Puli Alam itself had a population of 22,914 in 2015. it has 4 districts and a total land area of 3,752
hectares. The total number of dwellings in the city is 2,546.
In August 2021, Puli Alam was seized by
Taliban fighters as part of the wider
2021 Taliban offensive
A military offensive by the Taliban insurgent group and other allied militants led to the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan based in Kabul and marked the end of the nearly 20-year-old War in Afghanistan, that had begun following the ...
.
History
Puli Alam underwent a lot of reconstruction work after the fall of the
Taliban government.
A
provincial reconstruction team,
PRT Logar of the
Czech Republic, was based in Puli Alam.
Climate
Puli Alam is at high altitude. It features a
hot-summer humid continental climate (''Dsa'') under the
Köppen climate classification. It has hot, dry summers and cold, snowy winters. The average temperature in Puli Alam is 11.0 °C, while the annual precipitation averages 291 mm.
July is the hottest month of the year with an average temperature of 24.7 °C. The coldest month, January, has an average temperature of -6.8 °C.
Land use
Puli Alam is an urban village in eastern Afghanistan. Agriculture is the dominant land use, accounting for 49% of total land. Only 19% of land is classified as
built-up, and 48% of this area is described as vacant plots. In Districts 1–3, the majority of the dwellings are regular houses.
Notable people
*
Mohammad Nabi
*
Gulbadin Naib
References
External links
AIMS District Map
Logar Province
Populated places in Logar Province
Provincial capitals in Afghanistan
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