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This is a list of the extreme points of Afghanistan.

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Cardinal directions

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| North

| class="fn org" | in the Panj River on the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border

| Maimay District (formerly part of Darwaz District), Badakhshan Province,{{cite web|url=https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/results-data/success-stories/kabul-badakhshan-12-hours-or-less|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114223022/https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/results-data/success-stories/kabul-badakhshan-12-hours-or-less|archive-date=14 November 2020|url-status=dead|quote=A bus trip between Kabul and Fayzabad in Badakhshan, Afghanistan’s northernmost province, used to take at least two days.|title=KABUL TO BADAKHSHAN IN 12 HOURS OR LESS|date=6 March 2010|access-date=14 November 2020|website=United States Agency for International Development}} Afghanistan

| Darvoz District, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Tajikistan

| {{Coord|38.49091037795163|70.98910900954883}}

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| South

| class="fn org" | on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border

| Afghanistan

| Pakistan

| {{Coord|29.377053840714115|64.11498849911357}}

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| East

| class="fn org" | Afghanistan-China-Tajikistan tripoint on Povalo-Shveikovskogo Peak{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OsllDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA92|title=Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan|author=Kamoludin Abdullaev|edition=3|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|date=2018|isbn=9781538102527|page=92|quote=CHINA-TAJIK BORDER.{...}This mountainous boundary runs along the Sarikol mountain range in eastern Tajikistan, reaching in Pamir the Afghan border at the Povalo-Shveikovskogo peak (5,543 meters above sea level).|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|location=Washington, D. C.|url=http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/imw/txu-oclc-6654394-nj-43-5th-ed.jpg|language=en|title=NJ 43 Su-fu [U.S.S.R., China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, State of Jammu and Kashmir] Series 1301, Edition 5-AMS|date=March 1967|via=Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection|publisher=Army Map Service|quote=Pik Povalo-Shveikovskogo}} ({{zh|s=波万洛什维科夫斯基峰{{cite web|url=https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/中华人民共和国和阿富汗王国边界条约|script-title=zh:中华人民共和国和阿富汗王国边界条约|quote={{lang|zh-hans|到高程为5698米的克克拉去考勒峰（阿方图称波万洛什维科夫斯基峰）。}}|language=zh |date=22 November 1963|via=Wikisource}}|p=Bōwànluò Shíwéikēfūsījī Fēng}}) / Kokrash Kol Peak (Kekelaqukaole Peak; {{zh|c={{linktext|克克拉去考勒|峰}}{{cite web|url=http://www.seac.gov.cn/gjmw/mzjj/2004-07-06/1168929053886200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204115722/http://www.seac.gov.cn/gjmw/mzjj/2004-07-06/1168929053886200.htm|archive-date=4 December 2008|date=6 July 2004|language=zh-hans|script-title=zh:阿富汗|publisher=State Ethnic Affairs Commission|quote={{lang|zh-hans|中阿边界{...}南起中、巴、阿3国交界处的5587山峰，沿穆斯塔格山脉分水岭北行至克克拉去考勒峰。}}}}|p=Kèkèlāqùkǎolè Fēng}}){{cite web|url=https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a356057.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111103014/https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a356057.pdf|url-status=live|archive-date=January 11, 2020|title=China Report Political, Sociological and Military Affairs No. 363|date=18 November 1982|access-date=11 January 2020|page=1|publisher=United States Joint Publications Research Service|via=Defense Technical Information Center|quote=If we open up the Atlas of the People's Republic of China we will find that the region of the Pamir, the western extremity of Xinjiang, from the Wuzibieli [Uzbel] Pass1 to the south down to the Kekelaqukaole Peak (which the Soviet Russians call "Pavel Shveikovsky Peak") is designated as a not limited area.}}

| Wakhan District, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan

| Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China and
Murghob District, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Tajikistan

| {{Coord|37.23531938299142|74.89018923839505}}

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| West

| class="fn org" | on the Afghanistan-Iran border

| Afghanistan

| Iran

| {{Coord|33.12961099465783|60.582111332020865}}

Elevation

Noshaq (7492 m above sea level) is the highest point in Afghanistan.{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/af.html|title=AFGHANISTAN|website=The World Factbook|access-date=31 January 2020|quote=Elevation:{...} lowest point: Amu Darya 258 m highest point: Noshak 7,492 m}}

Lowest point in Afghanistan (about 255 m above sea level): The area in the northern end of Khamyab District where the Amu Darya flows into Turkmenistan.

See also

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Notes

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References

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