Afghanistan

the land of the Afghans, a country in Asia, bounded on the E, mainly by India, S. by Balu chi stan, W. by Persia, and N. by the Ru ian Trans cas pian territory, Bokhara and the Ru ian Pamir territory; length about 560, breadth about 450 miles; area about 225,000 square miles; pop. about 5,000,000. The inhabitants belong to different races, but the Afghans proper form the great ma of the people. These call themselves Pushtaneh or Puktaneh, Afghans being the Persian name.