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Eastern Afghanistan is a Growing Region: a named cultivation region above Growing Areas. It covers the part of the surveys' Eastern region (Kapisa, Kunar, Laghman, Nangarhar and Nuristan) that lies outside the Hindu Kush growing region: Nangarhar, Laghman's Qarghayi district and Kapisa's Kohistan, Kohband and Mahmud Raqi districts. Nangarhar is its growing area.
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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 Nangarhar in 2009, 2010 and 2011 and in Kapisa in 2011 (2010, Table 1; 2011, Table 1). Kunar, Laghman and Nuristan lay outside the area the surveys covered for cannabis in those years.
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 five provinces (OpenStreetMap province relations, fetched 19 October 2026).
- Nuristan and Kunar, Laghman's Alingar, Alishing, Dawlat Shah and Mihtarlam districts and Kapisa's Nijrab, Alasay and Tagab districts lie in the Hindu Kush and belong to that growing region. What is left is in two pieces: Nangarhar with Qarghayi, and the Kapisa districts at the edge of the Kabul basin.
- 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 8,900 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.
Tirah: Tirah, on the Pakistani side of the Spin Ghar across from southern Nangarhar, is not part of this region. The surveys cover Afghanistan only, and no source read groups Tirah with Nangarhar.
Accessions inside the border
- HCG-AFG-NAN-0120250001 is filed under the region through the Nangarhar growing area.
- No herbarium sheet recorded on the wiki lies inside the border.
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.