Subject: af2<br/>
Date: Sep 10, 2003 @ 14:48<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-20960351">preliminary punctoscopy of the major internal tripoints of afghanistan<br/>
aka af2<br/>
from latest cia map<br/>
but not necessarily completely correct or correctly complete yet<br/>
since a few were hard to see<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
32 provinces or velayat producing 129 tripoint vectors in all<br/>
<br/>
bd 2 badakhshan<br/>
bg 2 badghis<br/>
bl 5 baghlan<br/>
bk 3 balkh<br/>
bm 8 bamian<br/>
fh 3 farah<br/>
fb 3 faryab<br/>
gz 7 ghazni<br/>
gr 8 ghowr<br/>
hm 4 helmand<br/>
hr 2 herat<br/>
jw 2 jowzjan<br/>
kb 6 kabul kabol<br/>
kd 2 kandahar<br/>
kp 3 kapisa<br/>
kt 1 khost khowst<br/>
kr 2 konar<br/>
kz 3 konduz kondoz<br/>
la 6 laghman<br/>
lw 5 lowgar<br/>
ng 4 nangarhar<br/>
nm 1 nimruz<br/>
nr 3 nuristan nurestan<br/>
or 6 oruzgan<br/>
pt 4 paktia<br/>
pk 3 paktika<br/>
pr 9 parvan<br/>
sm 5 samangan<br/>
sp 6 sar e pol<br/>
tk 3 takhar<br/>
vr 5 vardak<br/>
zb 3 zabol<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& thus producing 43 triprovincial or trivelayat points<br/>
as follows<br/>
<br/>
bdnrpr aka af2bdnrpr etc etc<br/>
bdprtk<br/>
bgfbgr<br/>
bggrhr<br/>
bkjwsp<br/>
bkkzsm<br/>
bksmsp<br/>
blbmpr<br/>
blbmsm<br/>
blkzsm<br/>
blkztk<br/>
blprtk<br/>
bmgror<br/>
bmgrsp<br/>
bmgzor<br/>
bmgzvr<br/>
bmprvr<br/>
bmsmsp<br/>
fbgrsp<br/>
fbjwsp<br/>
fhgrhr<br/>
fhgrhm<br/>
fhhmnm<br/>
grhmor<br/>
gzlwpt<br/>
gzlwvr<br/>
gzorzb<br/>
gzpkpt<br/>
gzpkzb<br/>
hmkdor<br/>
kbkpla<br/>
kbkppr<br/>
kblang<br/>
kblwng<br/>
kblwvr<br/>
kbprvr<br/>
kdorzb<br/>
kplapr<br/>
ktpkpt<br/>
lakrng<br/>
lakrnr<br/>
lanrpr<br/>
lwngpt<br/>
<br/>
of which only bggrhr & kblang seem pronouncedly mentionable<br/>
with all 43 being most probably unmarked & unfindable<br/>
<br/>
however the addition of any new country to our short list of these is good <br/>
news<br/>
& just puzzling all this out was hugely challenging fun in any case<br/>
<br/>
but dont take my word for it<br/>
<br/>
scope out your favorite country & see for yourself<br/>
<br/>
or if necessary try a simpler one for starters<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
but for a still greater challenge try the next country alphabetically with <br/>
me<br/>
al2 or albania in this case<br/>
whether it is your favorite or not<br/>
<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe/albania_pol00.jpg">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe/albania_pol00.jpg</a><br/>
shows not al2 but the 36 rrethe or districts of al3<br/>
&<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mindspring.com/~gwil/ual.html">http://www.mindspring.com/~gwil/ual.html</a><br/>
distributes these 36 districts into the 12 qarks or regions or prefectures <br/>
of al2<br/>
<br/>
so this will not be easy to sort out<br/>
but at least it looks possible as well as agreeably puzzling<br/>
<br/>
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