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Afghanistan

Capital: Kabul

  • Band-e-Amir is Afghanistan's first national park, established in 2009, with six lakes separated by white travertine dams.
  • The Minaret of Jam is about 65 m tall, built around 1190 in the Ghurid era, and inscribed as a UNESCO site in 2002.
  • Afghanistan is the world's third-largest producer of saffron, and it is also known for lapis lazuli mined in Badakhshan.
  • Herat's Friday Mosque was built in 1201 under Ghiyasuddin Ghori, and the city was a centre of the Timurid Renaissance in art and learning.

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