List of splits and creations of districts in Afghanistan

This list identifies the province and district splits and reassignments made by the Afghan government in revising and remapping its administrative divisions in the early 2000s. In June 2005, the Afghan government issued a map of the 34 provinces and 398 districts of Afghanistan.^[1]^[2] This list compares that 398 district set to an earlier one produced by UNDP's AIMS in 1998, which had recognized 32 provinces and 329 districts.^[3] The 2005 version included the new provinces of Daikundi and Panjsher, and seventy new districts. Yet more districts have been decreed since 2005.^[4] Those newer splits are not recorded here.

Northern Mainland Afghanistan

North Eastern Afghanistan

Badakhshan Province

Kohistan, Shuhada, Wurduj and Yamgan Districts were split-off from Baharak District.
Darwazi Bala District was split-off from Darwaz
District.

Shiki, Tagab and Yaftali Sufla Districts were split-off from Fayzabad
District.

Khash District was split-off from Jurm District.
Kuf Ab District was split-off from Khwahan District.
Tishkan District was split-off from Kishim District.
Ragh
District.

Baghlan Province

Dih Salah, Khwaja Hijran and Puli Hisar Districts were split-off from Andarab District.
Fering and Gharu Districts were split-off from Khost wa Fereng District.
Baghlan District was absorbed into Baghlani Jadid District.
Kahmard District was transferred into Bamiyan Province.

Kunduz Province

There weren't any changes within Kunduz Province.

Takhar Province

Dashti Qala District was split-off from Khwaja Ghar District.
Baharak, Hazar Sumuch and Namak Ab Districts were split-off from Taluqan District
Khwaja Baha Wuddin District was split-off from Yangi Qala
District.

North Western Afghanistan

Balkh Province

Khulmi
District, later it would be transferred to Samangan Province.
Zari District was split-off from Kishindih District.

Faryab Province

Qurghan District was split-off from Andkhoy District.
Gurziwan District was split-off from Bilchiragh District.

Jowzjan Province

Khaniqa District was split-off from Aqcha District.
Qush Tepa District was split-off from Shibirghan District.

Samangan Province

Dara-I-Sufi Payan
Districts.
Khulmi
District, later it would be shifted from Balkh Province.

Sare Pol Province

Gosfandi District was split-off from Sayyad District.

Central Mainland Afghanistan

Central Afghanistan

Kabul Province

Farza District was split-off from Mir Bacha Kot District.

Kapisa Province

Kohistan District was dissolved to split and create Hesa Awal Kohistan and Hesa Duwum Kohistan Districts.

Logar Province

Azra District was shifted from Paktia Province.
Baraki Barak
Kharwar District was split-off from Charkh District.

Panjshir Province

Note - All former districts were shifted from Parwan Province.

Hisa Awal Panjsher District District was dissolved to split and create Khenj and Paryan Districts.
The remaining part of Hisa Duwum Panjsher District District was dissolved to split and create Darah District.
The remaining part of Panjsher District was dissolved to split and create Anaba, Bazarak and Shotul Districts.
Rokha District was created parts of the former Hisa Duwum Panjsher and Panjsher Districts.

Parwan Province

Sayed Khel District was split-off from Jabal Saraj District.

Wardak Province

Jaghatu
District was shifted from Ghazni Province.

Eastern Afghanistan

Kunar Province

Wata Pur District was split-off from Asadabad
District.

Shaygal Wa Shiltan District was split-off from Chapa Dara
District.

Ghaziabad District was split-off from Nurgal
District.

Laghman Province

There weren't any changes within Laghman Province.

Nangarhar Province

Jalalabad
District.
Kot District was split-off from Rodat District.

Nuristan Province

Du Ab and Nurgaram Districts were split-off from Kamdesh District.

Western Afghanistan

Badghis Province

There weren't any changes within Badghis Province.

Bamyan Province

Sayghan District was split-off from Kahmard District, formerly from Baghlan Province.

Farah Province

There weren't any changes within Farah Province.

Ghor Province

Charsada, Dawlat Yar and Du Layna Districts were split-off from Chaghcharan
District.

Herat Province

There weren't any changes within Herat Province.

Southern Mainland Afghanistan

South Eastern Afghanistan

Ghazni Province

Waghaz District was split-off from Muqur District.
Jeghatoo (Waeez Shahid)
District.
Ghazni City
Districts.
Jaghatu
District was transferred to Wardak Province.

Khost Province

Shamal District was shifted from Paktia Province.

Paktia Province

Sayed Karam
District.
Azra District was transferred to Logar Province.
Shamal District was transferred to Khost Province.

Paktika Province

Waza Khwa
District.
Zarghun Shahr
District.

South Western Afghanistan

Daykundi Province

Note - All former districts were shifted from Orūzgān Province.

Gizab District was shifted from Orūzgān Province; but returned to Orūzgān in 2006.
Daykundi District was dissolved to split and create Ishtarlay, Khadir, Nili and Sangtakht Districts.
Kiti District was split-off from Kajran District.
Miramor District was split-off from Shahristan District.

Helmand Province

There weren't any changes within Helmand Province.

Kandahar Province

Miyan Nasheen District was split-off from Shah Wali Kot
District.

Panjwaye

Districts.

Naish

District was shifted from Orūzgān Province.

Nimruz Province

There weren't any changes within Nimruz Province.

Orūzgān Province

Gizab District was transferred to Daykundi Province; later returned in 2006.
Daykundi District was transferred to Daykundi Province.
Kajran District was transferred to Daykundi Province.
Shahristan District was transferred to Daykundi Province.
Naish
District was transferred to Kandahar Province.

Zabul Province

Argahandab
District.
Naw Bahar District was created from parts of Shamulzayi and Shinkay Districts.

References

^ (1) Afghanistan - Estimated Population 2016/2017, UN OCHA Afghanistan, 8/11/16 The population report, an Excel file, is essentially the 34 province, 398 district set, but with the addition of Sharak-e-Hayratan in Balkh. The 398 set was originally issued in 6/05 by the Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Head Office (AGCHO). No link available.
^ (2) The 399 district set, was republished by AGCHO with improved boundaries in 2012. The link is to a digital shapefile posted by UN OCHA to its HDX website.
^ (3) The 329 district set by AIMS (Afghanistan Information Management Services) of 1998, as a digital shapefile from Princeton's Empirical Studies of Conflict site, accessed 6/01/18. AIMS itself is now defunct.
^ (4) Afghanistan District Maps reviews subsequent district sets. Accessed 2/15/19.

[1] (1) Afghanistan - Estimated Population 2016/2017, UN OCHA Afghanistan, 8/11/16 The population report, an Excel file, is essentially the 34 province, 398 district set, but with the addition of Sharak-e-Hayratan in Balkh. The 398 set was originally issued in 6/05 by the Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Head Office (AGCHO). No link available.

[2] (2) The 399 district set, was republished by AGCHO with improved boundaries in 2012. The link is to a digital shapefile posted by UN OCHA to its HDX website.

[3] (3) The 329 district set by AIMS (Afghanistan Information Management Services) of 1998, as a digital shapefile from Princeton's Empirical Studies of Conflict site, accessed 6/01/18. AIMS itself is now defunct.

[4] (4) Afghanistan District Maps reviews subsequent district sets. Accessed 2/15/19.

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