Ghazni facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Ghazni غزنی
City
The Old City of Ghazni
Ghazni Location in Afghanistan
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

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  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)

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  Timurid conqueror Babur at Ghazni

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  People by the city gate, 1939

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  Artwork by James Rattray showing the Citadel of Ghazni and other historical sites, during the First Anglo-Afghan War

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  U.S. Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan Anthony Wayne and Ghazni's Governor Musa Khan Ahmadzai are talking to students who use Afghanistan's newest Lincoln Learning Center

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  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.

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  Jahan Maleeka School is an all-girls school which has over 5,000 students and 150 teachers.

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  Newly constructed gates in Ghazni