# Tell Me About Afghanistan

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-afghanistan/86374>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 9, 2001, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-afghanistan/86374 "2001-10-09T18:08:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2001, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-afghanistan/86374/1 "2001-10-09T18:08:02Z")

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I know about the Taliban and the horrible things they do to their people. But I’d like to know about the country in general - for example, what kind of industry does it have? What’s the geography like? How about a little of the country’s history? What was their culture like pre-Taliban?

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**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2001, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-afghanistan/86374/2 "2001-10-09T18:18:25Z")

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[http://www.icarp.org/afghan.html](http://www.icarp.org/afghan.html) is a good collection of links explaining things about Afghanistan.

I’d relate some information, but I couldn’t hope to do the topic justice, so rather than do a poor job, I’ll cop out and let someone else do the job.