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Central Afghanistan is a Growing Region: a named cultivation region above Growing Areas. It covers the part of the surveys' Central region (Kabul, Khost, Logar, Paktya, Panjshir, Parwan, Wardak, Ghazni and Paktika) that lies outside the Hindu Kush growing region. It has no growing area yet.
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Why the region is on the map
- The cannabis surveys of the Afghan Ministry of Counter Narcotics and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2009 to 2012) report cultivation by province and gather the provinces into six regions: Central, Eastern, North-eastern, Northern, Southern and Western (2010 survey, Table 1, p. 13; the same grouping in 2011, Table 1, p. 13).
- Cannabis was found in Logar and Paktya in every year from 2009 to 2012, in Khost in 2010, in Kabul in 2011 and 2012, and in Paktika in 2011 (2012 survey, Table 1, p. 12).
Growing status
The status is Active: the surveys found cannabis grown in the region's provinces from 2009 to 2011. No source read says that growing in the region has ended.
How the border is drawn
- The border is a proxy drawn on administrative units: the nine provinces (OpenStreetMap province relations, fetched 19 October 2026).
- All of Panjshir and Parwan's Salang, Shinwari, Sheikh Ali, Surkhi Parsa and Ghorband districts lie in the Hindu Kush and belong to that growing region.
- The region takes in the existing border of each of its growing areas where that border and the province line differ by a few square kilometres.
- The union is about 71,300 km², the figure in the infobox.
- The grouping of provinces is the surveys' own, used for their regional figures; it is not a physical region, and the article says whose grouping it is.
- The border is not drawn from accession or news points.
Accessions inside the border
- No accession is filed under the region. Several herbarium sheets lie inside the border: Johnston s.n., Logar (1879), Neubauer 294 (1949) and Rechinger 35587 (1967) (Khost), Volk 1068 (1950) and Volk 71/151 (1971) (Khost) and Vavilov s.n., Gui-Akhen (1924) (Ghazni). None of their labels says the plant was cultivated; Volk 1068 records ditch edges and wet fields.
Sources
- The surveys of 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012: the provincial tables (Table 1 of the 2010 and 2011 reports) and the regional passages cited in the article.