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Sar E Pol
Provincial capital in Sar-e Pol, Afghanistan

Sar E Pol

Sar-e-Pol, also written as Sar-i-Pul, and historically known as Anbar, is a city in northern Afghanistan, serving as the capital of Sar-e-Pol Province.

The city is within the jurisdiction of Sar-e-Pol District and has an estimated population of 134,809 people (2025). Qari Abdul Vakil Moaz serves as the mayor of the city.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: U.S. Geological Survey from Reston, VA, USA (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.