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Zabul Province Zabul (Pashto/Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the south of the country. It has a population of 249,000. Zabul became an independent province from neighbouring Kandahar in 1963. Historically, it was part of the Za ...

, location = Qalat, Afghanistan , elevation-f = 5383 , elevation-m = 1641 , coordinates = , r1-number = 02/20 , r1-length-f = 5047 , r1-length-m = 1538 , r1-surface = Gravel , metric-rwy = y , footnotes = Sources: Google Earth Qalat Airport ( ps, د قلات هوايي ډګر; prs, فرودگاه قلات; ) is located less than 2.5 miles north from the center of Qalat, which is the capital of

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 ...

. It is currently an

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used exclusively by members of the country's

. Security in and around the airport is provided by the

Afghan National Security Forces The Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), also known as the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), were the military and internal security forces of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Structure The Afghan National Security Fo ...

. Qalat Airport is at an approximate elevation of above

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. It has one

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measuring around . It will likely become a regional domestic airport in the future, which will make flying more convenient for the residents of Zabul Province. Presently, they must drive to

Kandahar Kandahar (; Kandahār, , Qandahār) is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population of about 614,118. It is the c ...

in the south to use a public airport or receive travelers.

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Airports in Afghanistan {{Afghanistan-airport-stub

See also

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