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Pul-i-Alam
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Pul-i-Alam
Total population
108,000
Demographic figures from National Statistics and Information Authority (Afghanistan). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Overview
Pul-i-Alam, also written as Puli Alam, Pul-e Alam or Pul-e-Alam, is a city in eastern Afghanistan, serving as the capital of Logar Province. It is within the jurisdiction of Puli Alam District and has an estimated population of 130,793 people. They are mostly ethnic Pashtuns and Tajiks. The city had 2,546 dwellings in 2015.
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History
During the recent US-led war in Afghanistan, a provincial reconstruction team, PRT Logar of the Czech Republic, was based in Puli Alam. After the Americans and their allies fled from Afghanistan in August 2021, Pul-i-Alam was seized by Taliban fighters as part of the wider 2021 Taliban offensive.
Geography
Pul-i-Alam is an urban village in eastern Afghanistan. Agriculture is the dominant land use, accounting for 49% of total land. Only 19% of land is classified as built-up, and 48% of this area is described as vacant plots. In Districts 1–3, the majority of the dwellings are regular houses. The city has 4 districts and a total land area of or .
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Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
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Wildlife & biodiversity
Earthquake history
Most recent
- M 4.2 — 2025-05-1926 km NW of Paghmān, Afghanistan
- M 4.2 — 2024-11-1014 km SSE of Ḩukūmatī Azrah, Afghanistan
- M 4.3 — 2024-04-0523 km W of Ḩukūmatī Azrah, Afghanistan
- M 4.1 — 2024-02-0913 km SSW of Tagāb, Afghanistan
- M 4.6 — 2023-08-3123 km SSW of Tagāb, Afghanistan
- M 4.5 — 2023-06-2532 km ESE of Kabul, Afghanistan
Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).
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Notable people from here
People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • USGS Earthquake Catalog (global feed)
- • GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API