AF — Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a landlocked country in South-Central Asia, situated at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Kabul, the capital, is the largest city and economic center. The country has a complex geopolitical history and diverse ethnic composition including Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, and Uzbek communities. The Afghan Afghani (AFN) uses the ؋ symbol, an Arabic-script currency sign. For developers, the AF country code maps to ps-AF for Pashto and fa-AF for Dari (Afghan Persian), both using Arabic script with RTL text direction. The .af domain and +93 calling code serve Afghan telecommunications. Afghanistan's dual official languages both use Arabic script but with different character sets and conventions. The country's ISO code AF is the first alphabetically in ISO 3166-1, making it frequently the first country in dropdown lists — a UX concern since many users accidentally select it. Applications handling Afghan data must support Arabic script rendering with proper RTL layout for both Pashto and Dari languages.