Ghazni facts for kids

Ghazni
Quick facts for kids Ghazni ; غزنی
	City
	The Old City of Ghazni
Country	Afghanistan
Province	Ghazni Province
Elevation	2,219 m (7,280 ft)
Population (2018)
• City	270,000
• Urban	270,000
Time zone	UTC+4:30

Ghazni (Persian/Pashto: غزنی - Ġaznī; historically known as غزنین / Ġaznīn and غزنه / Ġazna) is a city in central-east Afghanistan. It is the capital of Ghazni Province.

Just like other cities of Afghanistan, Ghazni is very old and has seen many military invasions.

Infrastructure

Education

The city has a number of public schools.

Resources

Ghazni City is located in an area of extreme drought. In 2007, one of the gates on a fifty-year-old dam on the Jikhai River broke. This worried the people of Ghazni city about the water supply. The dam serves as a good source of irrigation water to Ghazni City and the surrounding agricultural areas. Nearby rivers have a history of flooding and causing severe damage and death, though efforts have begun to fix this.

Notables from Ghazni

Sadiq Ali Khan Tanoli (sons named Feroz Khan, Sanjay Khan, Akbar Khan (director), Indian film actors,
Hajweri Ghaznawi
Mahmud of Ghazni
Sanai
Hassan Ghaznavi
Faiz Muhammad Katib Hazara
Farrukhi Sistani, Manuchehri Damaghani, Abul-fazl Bayhaqi (royal poets and writers who lived during the Ghaznavids period)

Points of interest

Citadel
Minarets of Ghazni
Palace of Sultan Mas'ud III
Tomb of Sebuktigin
Mausoleum of Sultan Mahmud
Mausoleum of Sanai
Museum of Islamic Art
Tapa Sardar Excavations

Related pages

Ghazni Province

Images for kids

A 19th-century artwork by James Atkinson showing Ghazni's citadel and two minarets, which were built by Bahram-Shah during the Ghaznavid era (963–1187)
Timurid conqueror Babur at Ghazni
People by the city gate, 1939
A young boy and his friends play outside the Danish Centre educational facility in Ghazni City as members of Provincial Reconstruction Team Ghazni unload computers to be donated to the facility.