Mazar-i-Sharif

Uncommon card · No. 153408

Mazar-i-Sharif or Mazar-e-Sharif is a city in northern Afghanistan, serving as the capital and largest city of Balkh Province. It has 12 city districts (nahias) and an estimated population of 568,013 people. Hafiz Abdul Rahman Himat is the current mayor of the city. His predecessor was Mohammad Kazim Tariq. Mazar-i-Sharif is home to the Mausoleum of Imam Ali. The city has long been a tourist destination because of its famous shrines as well as the Islamic and Hellenistic archeological sites. The city is also home to the Mawlana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi International Airport and Balkh University. It is linked by a road network with Hairatan to the north, Kunduz to the east, Aybak to the southeast, Bamyan to the south, and Sheberghan to the west. It is about 55 km (34 mi) to the south from the Afghanistan–Uzbekistan border. The ancient city of Balkh is about 25 km (16 mi) slightly to the northwest of Mazar-i-Sharif. The region around Mazar-i-Sharif has been historically part of Greater...

Read on Wikipedia · Image Peretz Partensky from San Francisco, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0