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Kandahar or Qandahar (, Persian :  , , known in older literature as Candahar ) is the second - largest city in ___MASK56___ , with a population of about 491 , 500 . Formerly called Alexandria Arachosia , the city is named after Alexander the Great , who founded it in 329 BC around a small ancient Arachosian town . Kandahar is the capital of Kandahar Province , located in the south of the country at an altitude of 1 , 010 m above sea level . The Arghandab River runs along the west of the city . The city of Kandahar has a population of 557 , 118 . It has 15 districts and a total land area of 27 , 337 hectares . The total number of dwellings in Kandahar is 61 , 902 . Farid Ahmadi ( born 6 February 1988 ) is an Afghan football player . He plays as a Midfielder and has played football with Kandahar Aryan since 2005 . Kandahar Aryan Football Club is an association football club based in Kandahar , ___MASK56___ . In September 2005 , it played a friendly match against Shaheed Azizullah , a team from the Balochistan region of Pakistan . ___MASK56___ ( Pashto / Dari : , " Afnistn "), officially the Islamic Republic of ___MASK56___ , is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia . It has a population of approximately 32 million , making it the 42nd most populous country in the world . It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east ; Iran in the west ; Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan , and Tajikistan in the north ; and China in the far northeast . Its territory covers , making it the 41st largest country in the world . ___MASK63___ ( or ), officially the Islamic Republic of ___MASK63___ , is a federal parliamentary republic in South Asia on crossroads of Central Asia and Western Asia . It is the sixth - most populous country with a population exceeding 200 million people . It is the 36th largest country in the world in terms of area with an area covering . ___MASK63___ has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of ___MASK79___ in the south and is bordered by India to the east , ___MASK56___ to the west , Iran to the southwest and China in the far northeast respectively . It is separated from Tajikistan by ___MASK56___ ' s narrow Wakhan Corridor in the north , and also shares a maritime border with ___MASK79___ .