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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 borde ...

.UNEP-WCMC (2021). Protected Area Profile for Afghanistan from the World Database of Protected Areas. Accessed 15 August 2021

/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 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, Kunduz Province * Khulm Landmark Protected Area, Balkh Province *

Koh-e Baba (Shah Foladi) Protected Landscape The Baba Mountain range ( ps, بابا غر Bâbâ Ǧar; fa, کوه بابا Kōh-i Bābā; or Kūh-e Bābā; ''Kōh'' or ''Kūh'' meaning ′mountain′, ''Bābā'' meaning ′father′) is the western extension of the Hindu Kush, and the ori ...

, 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 sep ...

, 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, wi ...

, Nuristan Province * Pamir-i-Buzurg Wildlife Reserve, Badakhshan Province *

Registan Desert Wildlife Managed Reserve The Registan ( Uzbek: Регистон, Registon) was the heart of the ancient city of Samarkand of the Timurid Empire, now in Uzbekistan. The name ''Rēgistan'' () means "sandy place" or "desert" in Persian. The Registan was a public square, ...

, 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 to ...

, Badakhshan Province *

Zadran National Reserve Zadran may refer to: People * Zadran (Pashtun tribe) * Shapoor Zadran, Afghan cricket player * Noor Zadran, Afghan footballer * Noor Ali Zadran, Afghan cricket player * Dawlat Zadran Dawlat Zadran ( ps, ; born 19 March 1988) is an Afghan cric ...

, Paktia Province

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Protected areas Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...