AFGHANISTAN
The New
Year in Afghanistan, called Nawroz, is
celebrated on 21
March which is the first day of spring.
Afghanistan
is also rich in natural resources with the main ones being natural gas and oil.
Afghanistan's
main source of income comes from agriculture. They
produce large amounts of crops that are enough to provide for the people and
export as well.
National
game is Buzkashi, or in
other words, goat-grabbing. It's a sport where the players in two teams try to
catch a goat while riding on a horse. It has been played for centuries and it
even got sponsors for it nowadays.
The
country is rich in the vibrant blue stone, lapis lazuli, which was used to
decorate the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamun.
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| Buzkashi |
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| A Blue Mosque at Mazar - Sharif, Afghanisthan |
Afghans
take pride in making and flying their own kites. They even have kite fights and
use wire or glass in their kites to cut the kite strings of rival kite flyers.
Afghanistan
celebrates its independence on August
19th from Britain.
British and
Afghans fought in three wars in the 19th and 20th centuries, but the Afghans
finally defeated the British in 1919 and formed an independent monarchy in 1921.
The
Soviet Union invaded in 1979 . In 1996, Soviet troops left
Afghanistan and the Taliban took
control of the capital Kabul.
After the
September
11, 2001 attacks, the United States began searching for Osama bin Laden in
Afghanistan and invaded Afghanistan, along with an international coalition to
remove the Taliban.
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| A cliff gap - once Buddha statue stood |
A Loya Jirga wrote a
new constitution in 2004 and the people elected their first president, Hamid Karzai.
Tea is the favourite Afghan
drink and a popular meal is palau, made
from rice, sheep and goat meats, and fruit.
Official name: Republic Of
Afghanistan
Capital: Kabul
People: Afghans
Currency: Afghani
Official Launguage :Dari
and Pashto
Climate : Arid to semi arid, hot summers and cold winters.
Size:251,827 square miles; slightly smaller than Texas
Land Boundaries : North -Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan
Northeast- China
South and East- Pakistan
West- Iran
