Asadābād
Asadabad, historically called Chighansarai, is a city in eastern Afghanistan, serving as the capital of Kunar Province.

Asadabad, historically called Chighansarai, is a city in eastern Afghanistan, serving as the capital of Kunar Province. It is within the jurisdiction of Asadabad District and has an estimated population of 42,396 people. Mullah Nazar Mohammad Attiq is the current mayor of the city.
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Worth seeing in and around Asadābād
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Said Jamaluddin Afghani University
The Sayed Jamaluddin Afghani University or Kunar University is a public university in Asadabad, which is the capital of Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan. It was established in 2010.
2 km · University in Asadabad, Kunar Afghanistan · Wikipedia
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Getting to Asadābād
- Airports
- Bacha Khan (PEW), 103 km · Kabul (KBL), 181 km · Islamabad (ISB), 213 km
- Kabul → Asadābād185 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · $19–26
- Mazar-i-Sharif → Asadābād417 km · quickest by road, 11h 9m · $50–70
- Kandahar → Asadābād622 km · quickest by road, 13h 55m · $60–80
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No local-transport research exists yet for Asadābād
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Asadābād. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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- Marawarahuman settlement in Afghanistan3.2 km