Khaki Jabbar District is a mountainous district situated in the southeastern part of Kabul Province

Kabul Province

Kābul , situated in the east of the country, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. The capital of the province is Kabul City, which is also Afghanistan's capital. The population of Kabul province is 3.5 million people as of 2009, of which almost 80 percent live in the urban areas...

, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

. The district headquarter is Khak-i Jabbar

Khak-i Jabbar

Khak-i Jabbar is a village and the center of Khaki Jabbar District, Kabul Province, Afghanistan. It is located at at 2,287 m altitude....

 village, which is located in the central part of the district.

Demographics

Like in the rest of Afghanistan, no exact population numbers are available. The Afghan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation & Development (MRRD) along with UNHCR estimates the population of the district to be around 7,461. According to AIMS and UNHCR, the overwhelmingly majority of the population are Pashtuns (at 95%), while the remaining 5% are ethnic Tajiks.

Geography

Khaki Jabbar district borders Logar Province and Mussahi District

Mussahi District

Mussahi District is a district of Kabul province, Afghanistan.Location: is situated in the southern part of Kabul Province, Afghanistan. Mussai district borders Char Asiab District to the west, Bagrami District to the north, Khaki Jabbar District to the east and Logar Province to the south...

 to the west, Bagrami

Bagrami District

Bagrami District is located in the central part of Kabul Province in Afghanistan. It is approximately 30 minutes drive east from the capital city, Kabul...

 and Surobi

Surobi District

This article is about the Surobi District of Kabul Province. For the district in Paktika, see Sarobi, Paktika.Surobi, Sarobi or Sarubi District is a district of Kabul Province, Afghanistan. Its capital, Surobi, lies about 60 kilometres east of Kabul along the A01 highway, although much of the...

 districts to the north, and Nangarhar Province

Nangarhar Province

Nangarhar is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan in the east of the country. Its capital is the city of Jalalabad. The population of the province is 1,334,000, which consists mainly of ethnic Pashtuns with a sizable community of Arabs and Pashais....

 to the east.

Among the major villages in the district are Chakari

Chakari, Afghanistan

Chakari was a village in Khaki Jabbar District, Kabul Province, Afghanistan. In the 1990s during the Afghan Civil War large portions of it were destroyed, and many people left. As of 2002 many of the former inhabitants had not returned.A Buddhist pillar, known as the "Minaret of Chakari" was...

, Malang, Khurd Kabul, and Karo Khail.