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AfghánistáN is a country of Asia lying between parallels 29° and 38° 35' of north latitude, and 60° 50' and 71° 50' of east longitude, with along narrow strip extending to 75° east longitude (Wakhan). For the boundaries, see This Statesman’s Year-Book, 1925, pp. 654–55; for the treaty of November, 1921, see The Statesman’s Year-Book, 1928, p. 642; and for earlier British relations with Afghánistán, which began in 1809, see The Statesman’S Year-Book, 1916, pp. 662–63. A new boundary agreement with the Soviet Union was signed in Moscow in June, 1946; a joint commission completed the demarcation in Sept., 1948.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1955). Afghanistan. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman's Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270848_34
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