This satellite map/print is centered focuses on Afghanistan. This poster/print also covers parts of the following countries: Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan.

Major roads, country boundaries, large cities, and many smaller tows/cities are included in this satellite map/print of Afghanistan. Topographic enhancements also give this satellite poster a 3-D natural look.

Country Background:

Ahmad Shah DURRANI unified the
Pashtun tribes and founded Afghanistan in 1747. The country served as a buffer
between the British and Russian empires until it won independence from notional
British control in 1919. A brief experiment in democracy ended in a 1973 coup
and a 1978 Communist counter-coup. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 to support
the tottering Afghan Communist regime, touching off a long and destructive war.
The USSR withdrew in 1989 under relentless pressure by internationally supported
anti-Communist mujahedin rebels. Subsequently, a series of civil wars saw Kabul
finally fall in 1996 to the Taliban, a hardline Pakistani-sponsored movement
that emerged in 1994 to end the country's civil war and anarchy. Following the
11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, a US, Allied, and anti-Taliban
Northern Alliance military action toppled the Taliban for sheltering Osama BIN
LADIN. The UN-sponsored Bonn Conference in 2001 established a process for
political reconstruction that included the adoption of a new constitution and a
presidential election in 2004, and National Assembly elections in 2005. On 7
December 2004, Hamid KARZAI became the first democratically elected president of
Afghanistan. The National Assembly was inaugurated on 19 December 2005.

Source; The CIA World Factbook