Kunduz, Kondoz Province, Afghanistan

🇦🇫 Kunduz is a city in northern Afghanistan, which serves as the capital of Kunduz Province. Kunduz is located in the historical Tokharistan region of Bactria. Kunduz is linked by highways with Kabul to the south, Mazar-i-Sharif to the west, and Badakhshan to the east. Kunduz is also linked with Dushanbe in Tajikistan to the north, via the Afghan dry port of Sherkhan Bandar. This city is famous for its watermelon in Afghanistan

As of 2015, the land use of the city (within the municipal boundary) is largely agricultural (65.8% of total area). Residential land comprises nearly half of the 'built-up' land area (48.3%) with 29,877 dwellings. Institutional land comprises 17.9% of built-up land use, given that the airport is within the municipal boundary.

Kunduz is the site of the ancient city of Drapsaka. It was a great centre of Buddhist learning and very prosperous during the 3rd century AD.

The city used to be called Walwalij (or Varvarliz) and the name Kuhandiz began to be used from the Timurid time.

In the 18th and 19th centuries it was the capital of an Uzbek-Tajik khanate which reached its largest extent, from Balkh to the Pamir Mountains, during the reign of Murad Beg (1815-1842). After Murad's death, the khanate declined and was eventually subjugated by Afghanistan in 1859. It was part of The Great Game between the British and Russians. In the early 20th century, between one-hundred and two-hundred thousand Tajiks and Uzbeks fled the conquest of their homeland by Russian Red Army and settled in northern Afghanistan.

Kunduz is strategically situated on the main north–south highway linking Kabul to Tajikistan, and east–west Mazar-i-Sharif to Taloqan and Fayzabad.

Kunduz city is divided into 8 Districts ('Nahias') with a total land area of 11,206 hectares.

Stadiums ◦ Kunduz Cricket Ground ◦ Kunduz Ground.