Kunduz Province of Afghanistan

Kunduz is one of the provinces of Afghanistan, centered on the city of Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, with an area of 8,040 km square, and a population of about 820,000.

The Kunduz River valley dominates the Kunduz Province. The river flows from south to north into the Amu Darya or Oxus river which forms the border between Kunduz province and Tajikistan. A newly constructed bridge crosses the Amu Darya at Sher Khan Bandar. The river, its tributaries and derivative canals provide irrigation to the irrigated fields that dominate land usage in the province. There are also rain-fed fields and open rangeland.

Pashtuns and Tajiks are the major ethnic groups in Kunduz followed by a minority of Uzbeks, Hazara, Turkmen, and other.

Afghanistan War;

Germany has 4000 soldiers stationed in the NATO-ISAF Kunduz province Provincial Reconstruction Team, along with Regional Command North. The province was largely peaceful until Taliban militants started infiltrating the area in 2009.

Main article: Kunduz Province Campaign

On 4 September 2009 the German commander called in an American jetfighter, which attacked two NATO fuel trucks, which had been captured by insurgents. More than 90 people died, among them at least 40 civilians, who had gathered to collect fuel.

Main article: Kunduz airstrike

It was reported that on 21 November 2009 a bomb going off along the Takhar Kunduz highway killed a child and injured two others.

The governor, Mohammad Omar, was killed by a bomb on October 8, 2010.

On 10 February 2011, a suicide bomber killed a district governor and six other people in the district of Chardara in Kunduz Province, where the insurgency is well entrenched

District	Population
Ali Abad	45,851
Archi	99,000
Chahar Dara	69251
Imam Sahib	250,000
Khan Abad	110,000
Kunduz	259,497
Qalay-I-Zal	120,000

Capital;

Kunduz

Area ;

8,040 km2 (3,104.3 sq mi)

Population;

 820,000

Main languages;  

Dari Persian

Pashto

Uzbek