Southern Afghanistan

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region of Afghanistan

Southern Afghanistan is a predominantly Pashto-speaking region of Afghanistan that includes provinces such as Kandahar and Helmand and is known as a cultural and political heartland of the Pashtun people.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
southern Afghanistan	3
Helmand Province, Afghanistan	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	region of Afghanistan ⓘ
borderedByCountry	Iran ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ
borderedByRegion	Central Afghanistan ⓘ Eastern Afghanistan ⓘ Northern Afghanistan ⓘ Western Afghanistan ⓘ
climate	arid ⓘ semi-arid ⓘ
country	Afghanistan ⓘ
culturalHeartlandOf	Pashtuns ⓘ
dominantIslamicSchool	Hanafi school ⓘ surface form: Hanafi
dominantReligion	Sunni Islam ⓘ
hasTerrain	desert ⓘ mountains ⓘ semi-arid plains ⓘ
historicalCenter	Kandahar ⓘ surface form: Kandahar city
historicallySignificantFor	Afghan state formation ⓘ Afghan conflicts ⓘ surface form: Taliban insurgency
includesProvince	Daikundi Province ⓘ Farah Province ⓘ Ghazni Province ⓘ Helmand Province, Afghanistan ⓘ surface form: Helmand Province Kandahar Province ⓘ Nimruz Province ⓘ Paktika Province ⓘ Uruzgan Province ⓘ Zabul Province ⓘ
knownFor	Pashtun tribal culture ⓘ Pashtunwali code of conduct ⓘ long-running armed conflict ⓘ poppy cultivation ⓘ
locatedIn	Afghanistan ⓘ
locatedInContinent	Asia ⓘ
locatedInRegion	Central Asia ⓘ South Asia ⓘ
majorCity	Farah city ⓘ Kandahar ⓘ surface form: Kandahar city Lashkargah ⓘ Qalat ⓘ Tarin Kowt ⓘ Zaranj ⓘ
majorEthnicGroup	Pashtuns ⓘ
partOf	Afghanistan ⓘ
politicalHeartlandOf	Pashtuns ⓘ
predominantLanguage	Pashto language ⓘ surface form: Pashto
traversedByRiver	Helmand River ⓘ surface form: Arghandab River Helmand River ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kandahar → locatedInRegion → Southern Afghanistan ⓘ

this entity surface form: southern Afghanistan

Light Dragoons → notableDeployment → Southern Afghanistan ⓘ

this entity surface form: Helmand Province, Afghanistan

Pashtuns → primaryRegions → Southern Afghanistan ⓘ

this entity surface form: southern Afghanistan

Harakat-i Inqilab-i Islami → regionOfActivity → Southern Afghanistan ⓘ

this entity surface form: southern Afghanistan

Pashto language → spokenIn → Southern Afghanistan ⓘ