Five coordination zones
Logistics in all 34 provinces. Closer than you think.
Five regional operating zones coordinated from Kabul, Jalalabad, Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar and Herat, reaching all 34 provinces and 250+ districts.
Find your province.
Choose a zone to see its provinces, point at any province to see where it is coordinated from, or search for a province or city.
Central zone
- Headquarters
- Regional coordination
- Selected zone
- Main road
- Projects delivered
Coordination zones
Central zone · Headquarters
Headquarters, project leadership, finance and national coordination.
9 provinces
Every province
The road to each one, from where it is coordinated.
Each of the 34 provinces belongs to one of five zones, coordinated from Kabul, Jalalabad, Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar or Herat. Its row runs from that city to the provincial capital by the main roads, with the height the team will be working at and whether winter can close the way, and the field network reaches more than 250 districts beyond the capitals. Choose a province to see it on the map.
- By main road from where the zone is coordinated to the capital, approximate
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- The province’s average elevation
- Winter can close its roads or limit them to light trucks
- Projects delivered there
Central zone
Coordinated from Kabul. Headquarters, project leadership, finance and national coordination.
9 provinces
Eastern zone
Coordinated from Jalalabad. Regional coordination for the eastern corridor and its border districts.
7 provinces
Northern zone
Coordinated from Mazar-e-Sharif. Regional coordination across the northern plains and the north-east.
9 provinces
Southern zone
Coordinated from Kandahar. Regional coordination for the south and south-west, including remote districts.
5 provinces
Western zone
Coordinated from Herat. Regional coordination for the west and the central highlands approach.
4 provinces
Distances follow Natural Earth’s main roads by the shortest way and are rounded; they illustrate the reach, not a planned journey. Elevations are each province’s average, from NOAA’s ETOPO1 relief model. Winter roads as the Logistics Cluster’s road network assessment (opens in a new tab) records them: a prompt to check, since snow arrives at different times each year. “Projects delivered” marks provinces named in contracts and completion records supplied by Zhikal; the coverage itself is nationwide.
Remote areas
Reaching the last kilometres.
Provincial capitals are the easy part. What decides whether a distribution happens on the agreed day is the district road, the season, the access window and whether there is someone in the region who has driven that route before. Regional coordinators and field teams are recruited and based where they work, which is what makes remote-area deployment a plan rather than an aspiration.
Plan back from the snow
Purchase
Inspection
Dispatch from the warehouse
Trunk movement
Transfer to smaller vehicles
Handover
Snow
Late summerLast safe delivery
Early winter
At national scale
All 34 provinces on one assignment.
A single assignment deployed and coordinated a rental fleet across all 34 provinces for more than seven months, supporting a survey across 33 provincial warehouses, 354 district warehouses and 4,537 school stocks. Warehouse management has been run across ten provinces under one 12-month contract, and food distribution across five provinces in a single agreement.
See the survey, drawn to scale