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Last update: August 12, 2023

Summary table

ISO 3166-1 codes

Alpha 2: AF, Alpha 3: AFG, Numeric: 004

Administrative units

Provinces, districts.

Agricultural seasons

Winter (May - June) and Spring (March - July)

Major crops

Wheat, barley, sorghum

Country food security context

Statistical reporting units

Afghanistan usually uses administrative units as their statistical reporting units.

Info

Administrative (admin) units are the geographical areas into which a country is divided. FEWS NET uses the following terminology: National boundary = admin 0, First sub-national division = admin 1 (e.g., states in the United States), Second sub-national division = admin 2 (e.g., counties in the United States), and so on.

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