Talk:List of cities in Afghanistan

Discussion from Cleanup/December

 * List of cities in Afghanistan - someone put a cleanup template on this, but it doesn't seem to have been reported here. I did some, but it needs alphabetising, dab'ing... how can a country of 16 million have so many "cities"? Grutness|hello? [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]] 09:50, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree - looks like someone has taken an atlas of the country and copied every settlement on the list!!! I have Googled and used two or three of the appropriate sites; plus I also used my own encyclopaedia (1966 version but what the heck!) and come up with some dozen names of cities (altho some of them are arguably so - I suppose local information might upgrade some towns.
 * I see that some on the huge list are already cross-referenced, so I will check back on those. The first two are no-nos however: Ahmadabad is in India, and Balkh is called a "small town" in its article!
 * I have reached the letter K and am going to give up!! This was a quite ridiculous exercise, must have taken hours to produce, and it is obviously a gazatteer of Afghanistan. What is more, once produced there was no attempt to do the exercise I have been doing, so many of the cross refs have nothing whatsoever to do with Afghanistan. Dalak is a Danish word; Divali is a well-known festival; Garmin is a US group of companies; Husayn is another spelling of Hussain; Jura are French mountains - and as for Islam ... words fail.
 * I don't want to scrap it, after all that work, but it really isn't a Wikipedia article, is it?Peter Shearan 16:28, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Then I suggest that the whole lot is scrapped and the considered list substituted Peter Shearan 11:26, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I may have broken all the rules, but have reduced the sheer volume of this article somewhat. I took out the first list -"the top ten" cities, which I found from a Googled website were out-of- date anyway - and produced a new article with a slightly altered title List: Cities in Afghanistan where there are now 32 large "places". Some of those on the original list are drastically changed - one is 11X as big! I have then re-titled the original article Places in Afghanistan and simply announced it as a gazetteer. I still think it is out of place here, but would appreciate another POV on that Peter Shearan 15:15, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I picked up on this... it looks consistent now. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93;   15:17, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * List of cities in Afghanistan I've started VFD because of the articles sheer volume. Please take another look at it and vote if you were involved in the page. --Banana04131 01:07, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Incorrect figures and list-order
World Gaztteer is not a reliable source that the contents of this article are based on. It is a private unit and not a formal or recognized research unit.

According to the Central Statistics Office of Afghanistan, the presented demographic figures in this article/list are not accurate and the list is in disorder.

Here are the figures according to CSA:


 * Kabul - 2,536,300 (and not 3,120,963 because it seems to be the population of Kabul Province. The total population of Kabul province according to CSA is 3,138,100)
 * Kandahar - 450,300
 * Herat - 349,000
 * Mazari Sharif - 300,600
 * Kunduz - 264,100
 * Taloqan (center of Takhar province) - 196,400
 * Puli Khumri (center of Baghlan province) - 180,0
 * Jalalabad - 168,600
 * Charikar (Parvan Province) - 153,500
 * Sheberghan (Jowzjan Province) - 143,900
 * Ghazni - 141,000
 * Sari Pul - 136,000

All these figures compromise both the Urban and Metropolitan populations. The figures are as of 2006 estimation.

According to CSA, Bamiyan and Balkh cities have respectively 73,200 and 105,300 populations, so the figures of World Gazetteer are completely inaccurate. I suggest to choose the reports of Central Statistics Office of Afghanistan as the reference. Ariana310 19:58, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Internal Contradictions
There is no doubt that the collection of accurate data is difficult for this subject. Nevertheless, even by WP′s highly uneven standards, this is a pretty unreliable article.

Look at the pictures on the right and you will see that Kandahar is the #3 city: the table on the left, however, states otherwise. Now place your cursor over Mazari Sharif and you will see, without even leaving the page, that that is also #3 city. Now put the cursor over Herat and you get yet another #3 city. Call it the Rule of Threes. 3 options - choose you own.

This article, and those of the cities themselves, purport to be supervised by two separate projects: Cities; and Afghanistan. Can neither come to a conclusion as to which source might be the more reliable, and why, and make sense of this? Protozoon (talk) 20:22, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

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