Afghanistan is located in Southern Asia, north and west of Pakistan and east of Iran. Its northern neighbors include the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. It covers an area slightly smaller than Texas. The climate is arid to semiarid, with cold winters and hot summers. The terrain is mostly rugged mountains, and plains in the north and southwest. Natural resources include natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, lead, iron ore, salt, precious and semiprecious stones. Soil degradation, overgrazing, deforestation (much of the remaining forests are being cut down for fuel and building materials), and desertification are some current environmental issues. Damaging earthquakes occur in the Hindu Kush mountains.

Afghanistan is an extremely poor, landlocked country, highly dependent on farming and raising sheep and goats. Economic considerations have played second fiddle to political and military upheavals during two decades of war, including the nearly 10-year Soviet military occupation. The civil war that broke out after the 1992 fall of the Communist regime, the policies of the Taliban, and the military action taken against the Taliban by allied forces after the terrorist attack of 11 September 2001, have decimated the economic structures and the infrastructure of the country. Afghanistan's economic outlook has improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 due to the over $8 billion in international assistance. Agriculture and the service sector have recovered and grown as have the market institutions. However, Afghanistan will most likely see the end of the decade before significant improvements are made in the Afghani standard of living.

Afghanistan has around 50,000 Telephone lines and 25,000 Internet users

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