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Extreme points of Afghanistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ85760133 ↗
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This is a list of the extreme points of Afghanistan.

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Elevation

Noshaq (7492 m above sea level) is the highest point in Afghanistan.

Lowest point in Afghanistan (about 255 m above sea level): The area in the northern end of Khamyab District where the Amu Darya flows into Turkmenistan.

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This entry incorporates text from “Extreme points of Afghanistan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.