Kunduz (province)

Kunduz
Basic data
Country	Afghanistan
Capital	Kunduz
surface	8039 km²
Residents	950,813 (calculation 2012)
density	118 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	AF-KDZ
politics
governor	Mohammad Omar Safi
Districts in Kunduz Province (as of 2005)

Coordinates: 36 ° 42 '  N , 69 ° 0'  E

Kunduz (also Kunduz and Qunduz ; Dari (Persian) and Pashtunکندوز, DMG Kundūz ) is a province in northeast Afghanistan .

The capital of the province is the city of the same name, Kunduz, with over 268,000 inhabitants.

Infrastructure

The region's infrastructure has been severely damaged by the Taliban rule and the Afghan war . Road construction and drinking water supply are among the most urgent tasks. The city of Kunduz is supplied with electricity from Tajikistan . In large parts of the province, however, there is no electricity.

Kunduz Province has an airport.

history

The province's population came mainly in the late 19th century under the Pashtun Khan and Governor Kunduz ' Shir Khan Nashir , who founded the Spinzar Cotton Company, which became the most profitable company in Afghanistan and eventually opened its own hospitals, cinemas and hotels across the country. Spinzar made Kunduz the richest province in Afghanistan until the Soviet invasion . After an interruption, it has currently resumed its (greatly reduced) operation. Today cotton , rice , corn , wheat and melons are grown around Kunduz . Opium poppies , from which opium is extracted, are also to be grown in the province .

In order to help stabilize the country and secure the reconstruction after the NATO mission in Afghanistan due to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , the Bundeswehr had its own field camp in Kunduz from October 25, 2003 to October 19, 2013.

On October 8, 2010, the governor of the province, Mohammad Omar , was killed in a bomb attack on a mosque in the city of Talukan in the neighboring province of Tachar . He was succeeded by Mohammad Jegdalek . Mohammad Omar Safi is currently the governor of Kunduz Province.

In mid-July 2012, the German Armed Forces handed over responsibility for security for most of Kunduz Province to the Afghan National Army . Only the Chanabad district was left out . The handover ceremony took place on July 11th in the presence of the commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in northern Afghanistan, Bundeswehr General Erich Pfeffer , and the Afghan Interior Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi in an Afghan army camp on the outskirts of Kunduz.

Administrative division

The province of Kunduz is divided into the following districts:

• Aliabad
• Archi
• Chanabad
• Char Darah
• Imam Sahib
• Kunduz
• Qala-i-zal

Web links

Commons : Kunduz Province  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kunduz Provincial Profile (PDF file), October 29, 2007, on the website of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development
• AIMS Afghanistan Provincial Maps: Kunduz Province (PDF, 315 kB, 01 Dec 2003)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Gezatteer Population Data 2012 ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Thomas J. Barfield: The Central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan: Pastoral Nomadism in Transition . Thomas Barfield, 1981, ISBN 978-0-292-71066-5 ( google.de [accessed June 28, 2020]).
3. ^ Governor of Kunduz killed in attack. In: ORF . October 8, 2010, accessed October 8, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Damir Fras: Officially in the unofficial war. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . January 10, 2011, accessed January 10, 2011 . 
5. ↑ http://www.khaama.com/mohammad-omar-safi-appointed-new-governor-of-kunduz-9083
6. ↑ Afghans take responsibility in Kunduz. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 11, 2012, accessed July 13, 2012 .