Kandahar topographic map

Name: Kandahar topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Kandahar, Afghanistan (29.52943 64.50248 32.58691 67.79608)

Average elevation: 1,356 m

Minimum elevation: 361 m

Maximum elevation: 3,670 m

Kandahar (/ˈkəndəˌhɑːr/; Pashto: کندهار‎; Dari: قندهار‎; known in older literature as Gandahar) is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of 1,010 m (3,310 ft). It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population of about 614,118. It is the capital of Kandahar Province and also the center of the larger cultural region called Loy Kandahar. In 1709, Mirwais Hotak made the region an independent kingdom and turned Kandahar into the capital of the Hotak dynasty. In 1747, Ahmad Shah Durrani, founder of the Durrani dynasty, made Kandahar the capital of the Afghan Empire.