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loginBalkh province is situated in the northern part of Afghanistan, bordering Uzbekistan in the North, Tajikistan in the North-East, Kunduz province in the East, Samangan province in the South-East, Sar-e-Pul province in the South-West and Jauzjan province in the West.The capital city of the province is Mazar-e-Sharif, one of the biggest commercial and financial centres of Afghanistan.The province covers an area of 16,840 km2. Nearly half of the province is mountainous or semi mountainous terrain (48.7%) while half of the area (50.2%) is made up of flat land, as the following table shows