Afghanistan

Bamyan Province

Band-e Amir National Park is located in the central Bamyan Province of Afghanistan. It was established on 22 May 2009 as Afghanistan's first national park to promote and protect the natural beauty of a series of intensely blue lakes created by natural dams high in the Hindu Kush.

Badakhshan Province

The Wakhan Corridor is a protruding strip of territory that is part of the Wakhan District in the Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan. It begins in Afghanistan's northeastern corner and stretches eastward, connecting the country to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region within China.

Northeast Afghanistan

The Hindu Kush is an 800-kilometre-long (500 mi) mountain range in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas. It stretches from central and eastern Afghanistan into northwestern Pakistan and far southeastern Tajikistan.

Northern border

The Amu Darya, historically known as the Oxus, is a major river in Central Asia which flows through Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Rising in the Pamir Mountains, north of the Hindu Kush, the Amu Darya is formed by the confluence of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers, in the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve on the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, and flows from there north-westwards into the southern remnants of the Aral Sea.

Hindu Kush

Noshaq, also called Noshakh or Nowshakh, is a 7,492 m (24,580 ft) high peak in the Hindu Kush mountain range lying on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is the highest mountain in Afghanistan, the second highest in the Hindu Kush after Tirich Mir, and the 52nd highest in the world.