1. Afghanistan’s Geography
By Steven Huang
Kaleb Hoskins
Max strizhenko

2. Where It is Located Location: Southern Asia/Middle East
Coordinates N , E

3. Area Total: 652,230 sq km Land: 652,230 sq km Water: 0 km (landlocked)
Country comparison to the World: 41st

4. Did you know that?
Afghanistan is slightly smaller than Texas!

5. Climate, Terrain, Elevation
Climate: Arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers.
Terrain: mostly rugged mountains, plains in north and southwest
Highest Point: Noshak 7,485 meters
Lowest Point: Amu Darya 258 meters

6. Natural Resources
Afghanistan has many natural resources such as natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semiprecious stones.

7. Land Use Arable land: 12.13% Permanent crops: 0.21%
Other: 87.65% (Recorded in 2005)
Irrigated land: 31,990 sq. km (Recorded in 2008)

8. Water Statistics Total renewable water resources: 65 cu km (1997)
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
Total: cu km/yr (2%/0%/98%)
Per capita: 779 cu m/yr (Recorded in 2000)

9. Natural Hazards
Damaging earthquakes occur in Hindu Kush mountains, flooding, and droughts!

10. Enviroment
Current Issues: limited natural freshwater resources, inadequate supplies of portable water, soil degradation, overgrazing; deforestation (much of the remaining forests are being cut down for fuel and building materials) desertification, air and water pollution.

11. Afghanistan's Geography
It is obviously drier then most places in the world because of the Middle East.