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Provincial capital in Kunar, Afghanistan

Asadābād

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

Asadābād
Asadābād · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Said 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 → Asadābād
    185 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · $19–26
  • Mazar-i-Sharif → Asadābād
    417 km · quickest by road, 11h 9m · $50–70
  • Kandahar → Asadābād
    622 km · quickest by road, 13h 55m · $60–80
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Karimabad (Hunza)PK

    9 ways of moving, 35 sources

    357 km
  2. 02
    LehIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    594 km
  3. 03
    Panjakent and the Fann MountainsTJ

    11 ways of moving, 16 sources

    602 km
  4. 04
    KhujandTJ

    9 ways of moving, 27 sources

    616 km
  5. 05
    Tirthan ValleyIN

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    685 km

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Around it

Next door to Asadābād

  • Marawarahuman settlement in Afghanistan3.2 km