Kabul

American  

[kah-bool, -buhl, kuh-bool] / ˈkɑ bʊl, -bəl, kəˈbul /

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Afghanistan, in the NE part.

2. a river flowing E from NE Afghanistan to the Indus River in Pakistan. 360 miles (580 km) long.

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Kabul British  

/ ˈkɑːbəl, kəˈbʊl /

noun

1. the capital of Afghanistan, in the northeast of the country at an altitude of 1800 m (5900 ft) on the Kabul River : over 3000 years old, with a strategic position commanding passes through the Hindu Kush and main routes to the Khyber Pass; destroyed and rebuilt many times; capital of the Mogul Empire from 1504 until 1738 and of Afghanistan from 1773; university (1932). Pop: 3 288 000 (2005 est)

2. a river in Afghanistan and Pakistan, rising in the Hindu Kush and flowing east into the Indus at Attock, Pakistan. Length: 700 km (435 miles)

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Kabul Cultural  

1. Capital of Afghanistan and largest city in the country, located in eastern Afghanistan.

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Strategically situated in a high, narrow valley wedged between two mountain ranges, it is near the main approaches to the Khyber Pass, an old trade and invasion route.

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Kabul

The final planes leave Kabul on Aug. 30, carrying more than 124,000 people out of Afghanistan—but thousands of Afghan allies remain behind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

"I know all the roads and streets very well… we had all the information we needed about Kabul and its alleys," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

The Taliban government sits in Kabul, but Mujahid spends a lot of time in the southern city of Kandahar, the Taliban's heartland, which some now consider the de facto capital.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Driving through the heavy traffic and noisy roads of Kabul, Roeen said he has "become 10 times more interested in music" since the ban.

From Barron's

“He is a friend of a business acquaintance of your father’s. He’s a Pashtun, from Kandahar originally, but he lives in Kabul, in the Deh-Mazang district, in a two-story house that he owns.”

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

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