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How about education in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan implements 12 compulsory education. Education in Afghanistan has been severely damaged by the war, with backward education level, weak teachers and lack of basic education facilities and funds. By the end of 2003, there were 7,029 primary schools in Afghanistan, of which only 48% had water supply and sanitation facilities. With the great assistance of the international community, education in Afghanistan has gradually made progress. There are 6 million school-age children, of whom 38% are girls. It is reported that since 2005, hundreds of thousands of students have been forced to leave school due to the threat and destruction of the Taliban remnants. ?

As of 20 14, there are more than ten institutions of higher learning in Afghanistan. Kabul University, the highest institution of learning in China, was founded in 1946. Herat University is the educational center in western Afghanistan. It resumed in August 2002, with more than 365,438,000 students, including more than 700 girls.

Afghanistan is a landlocked country in south-central Asia, located in the center of Asia. The location of Afghanistan has different definitions, sometimes it is considered to be in Central Asia or South Asia, and even classified as the Middle East (West Asia). Afghanistan is closely related to most of its neighbors in religion, language and geography. Afghanistan borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, Jammu and Kashmir controlled by China and Pakistan in the east, Pakistan in the south and Iran in the west.

The name Afghan means "the place of Pashtuns" in Pashtun, and Pashtuns are also the most populous ethnic group in China at present.

Three fifths of the territory of Afghanistan is inaccessible. Agriculture is the main economic pillar, but the arable land is less than 2/3 of the agricultural land. With a population of over 30 million, it is one of the poorest countries in the world.