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Qalat
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kalat, Qalati Ghilji, Qalāti Ghilzay, Qalāti Zābul, Qalāti Khaljī, Qalāt, Kelat-I-Ghilzai
capital of Zabul, Afghanistan
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Place details
- Locality
- قلات
- Region
- زابل ولايت
- Country
- افغانستان
- Population
- 12,191
- Timezone
- Asia/Kabul
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Afghanistan
- Province
- Zabul Province
- District
- Qalat
- Type
- Municipality
- Elevation
- 5,090 ft (1,550 m)
- Urban
- 49,158
- Metro
- 9,900
- Time zone
- UTC+04:30 ( Afghanistan Time )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Afghanistan
- Located in
- Qalat District
- Elevation
- 1550
- Body of water
- Tarnak River
- Capital of
- Qalat District
- Image
- Environmental work decreases impact on Afghanistan's natural and cultural resources 100515-A-CE099-001.jpg
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- Qalat, Zabul
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Encyclopedic overview
Qalat (Pashto, Dari: قلات), also known as Kalat, and historically referred to as Qalāti Khaljī, and Qalat-i Ghilzai, is a city in southern Afghanistan that serves as the capital of Zabul Province. It is linked by Highway 1 with Kandahar to the southwest and Ghazni to the northeast. The city had 5,462 dwellings in 2014, with an estimated population of approximately 49,158 people. Qalat is divided by at least 4 police districts (nahias) with land area of 4,820 hectares.
Barren land is the dominant land use classification 59% of total land. While built-up land use only accounts for 19% of total land use, within that classification there is a large proportion of institutional land (33%). Qalat also has two distinct industrial areas in Districts 2 and 3.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qalat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.