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'''Daykundi Province''' (also transliterated ''Daikundi''), in central [[Afghanistan]], was split from [[Uruzgan Province]] in 2004, to make its majority [[Hazara]] while Uruzgan was [[Pashtun]]. District-level adjustments followed. Uruzgan forms its southern edge. It has a small southwest border with [[Helmand Province]], with [[Ghor Province]] on the west and north. [[Bamyan Province]] is on the northwest and [[Ghazni Province]] on its west.
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'''Daykundi Province''' (also transliterated ''Daikundi''), in central Afghanistan, was split from [[Uruzgan Province]] in 2004, to make its majority [[Hazara]] while Uruzgan was [[Pashtun]]. District-level adjustments followed. Uruzgan forms its southern border. Daykundi's other borders are with Helmand south west; Ghor west and north; Bamyan north west; and Ghazni west. Daykundi is in the [[Hindu Kush]] mountains; its capital is Nili, also written Dili.   
Its capital is [[Nili]], also written Dili, or is called Khadir.  There is little representation by the [[Afghan National Army]] or [[International Security Assistance Force]]; it is under ISAF Regional Command East. The capital is snowbound three months out of the year; there is no airport in the province. <ref name=Aus>{{citation
|title = Hope among the rubble | journal = The Australian
| author = Sally Neighbour | date = August 21, 2008
| url = http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24213361-25837,00.html}}</ref>
 
In 2007,  floods and  drought destroyed most of the wheat harvest and almost all the almond trees of the province; these are its two main crops. Approximately 40,000 families are believed in need of food, but no [[nongovernmental organization]] considers any road there to be safe. <ref name=Aus /> There have been continuing problems in food convoys reaching the province, having been attacked by insurgents from Helmand. A [[World Food Programme]] convoy was blocked in late 2007, and WFP stopped operations on the ring road in that region.<ref name=IRIN>{{citation|  title = AFGHANISTAN: Insecurity stops food aid to a Daykundi district
| date = November 14, 2007
| url = http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/ffb5c606d621a5afcf511e3a79ce93bc.htm
| author = IRIN}}</ref>


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Daykundi Province (also transliterated Daikundi), in central Afghanistan, was split from Uruzgan Province in 2004, to make its majority Hazara while Uruzgan was Pashtun. District-level adjustments followed. Uruzgan forms its southern border. Daykundi's other borders are with Helmand south west; Ghor west and north; Bamyan north west; and Ghazni west. Daykundi is in the Hindu Kush mountains; its capital is Nili, also written Dili.

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