62. The country has 23 million inhabitants The capital is Kabul The Taliban belong to the main ethnic group of Pashtun people The peoples spent two decades destroying each other They suffered a Russian invasion that lasted a decade The Pashtun people is the largest ethnic group in the Muslim world Death penalty for anyone converting to another religion There are 48,000 mosques and no visible Christian church Millions of Afghan refugees face starvation and death The strategic land has been disputed by rival foreign empires for 3000 years Curiosities End