List of splits and creations of districts in Afghanistan

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This list identifies the province and district splits and reassignments made by the Afghan government in revising and remapping its administrative divisions in the early 2000s. In June 2005, the Afghan government issued a map of the 34 provinces and 398 districts of Afghanistan. [1] [2] This list compares that 398 district set to an earlier one produced by UNDP's AIMS in 1998, which had recognized 32 provinces and 329 districts. [3] The 2005 version included the new provinces of Daikundi and Panjsher, and seventy new districts. Yet more districts have been decreed since 2005. [4] Those newer splits are not recorded here.

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Northern Mainland Afghanistan

North Eastern Afghanistan

Badakhshan Province

Baghlan Province

Kunduz Province

  • There weren't any changes within Kunduz Province.

Takhar Province

North Western Afghanistan

Balkh Province

  • Feroz Nakhchir District was split-off from Khulmi District, later it would be transferred to Samangan Province.
  • Zari District was split-off from Kishindih District.

Faryab Province

Jowzjan Province

Samangan Province

Sare Pol Province

Central Mainland Afghanistan

Central Afghanistan

Kabul Province

Kapisa Province

Logar Province

Panjshir Province

Note - All former districts were shifted from Parwan Province.

Parwan Province

Wardak Province

  • Jaghatu District was shifted from Ghazni Province.

Eastern Afghanistan

Kunar Province

Laghman Province

  • There weren't any changes within Laghman Province.

Nangarhar Province

Nuristan Province

Western Afghanistan

Badghis Province

  • There weren't any changes within Badghis Province.

Bamyan Province

  • Sayghan District was split-off from Kahmard District, formerly from Baghlan Province.

Farah Province

  • There weren't any changes within Farah Province.

Ghor Province

Herat Province

  • There weren't any changes within Herat Province.

Southern Mainland Afghanistan

South Eastern Afghanistan

Ghazni Province

Khost Province

  • Shamal District was shifted from Paktia Province.

Paktia Province

  • Ahmadabad District was split-off from Sayed Karam District.
  • Azra District was transferred to Logar Province.
  • Shamal District was transferred to Khost Province.

Paktika Province

South Western Afghanistan

Daykundi Province

Note - All former districts were shifted from Orūzgān Province.

Helmand Province

  • There weren't any changes within Helmand Province.

Kandahar Province

Nimruz Province

  • There weren't any changes within Nimruz Province.

Orūzgān Province

  • Gizab District was transferred to Daykundi Province; later returned in 2006.
  • Daykundi District was transferred to Daykundi Province.
  • Kajran District was transferred to Daykundi Province.
  • Shahristan District was transferred to Daykundi Province.
  • Naish District was transferred to Kandahar Province.

Zabul Province

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References

  1. (1) Afghanistan - Estimated Population 2016/2017, UN OCHA Afghanistan, 8/11/16 The population report, an Excel file, is essentially the 34 province, 398 district set, but with the addition of Sharak-e-Hayratan in Balkh. The 398 set was originally issued in 6/05 by the Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Head Office (AGCHO). No link available.
  2. (2) The 399 district set, was republished by AGCHO with improved boundaries in 2012. The link is to a digital shapefile posted by UN OCHA to its HDX website.
  3. (3) The 329 district set by AIMS (Afghanistan Information Management Services) of 1998, as a digital shapefile from Princeton's Empirical Studies of Conflict site, accessed 6/01/18. AIMS itself is now defunct.
  4. (4) Afghanistan District Maps reviews subsequent district sets. Accessed 2/15/19.