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Roads in America cross referenced with Afghanistan on Wikipedia

We take the Afghanistan article on Wikipedia, find the entries that belong to it, and look for roads whose name is the same as one of those entries. A match means the street name equals an entry's Wikipedia title, its Wikidata label, or one of its aliases. It says nothing about why a road has its name.

Roads matched
44
Street names matched
10
Entries tried
298
Entries with a match
10
Names left out
4

Matched street names 10

Each street name below equals the entry shown, once the road type (St, Rd, Ct) is ignored.

Street nameMatchesMatched onRoads
FARAH Farah Province alias "Farah" 15
KANDAHAR Kandahar Wikipedia title "Kandahar" 11
HELMAND Helmand Province alias "Helmand" 4
AFGHAN Afghans alias "Afghan" 3
KABUL Kabul Wikipedia title "Kabul" 3
MARJA Marjah alias "Marja" 3
JALALABAD Jalalabad Wikidata label "Jalalabad" 2
BAGRAM Bagram Wikidata label "Bagram" 1
LAGHMAN Laghman Province alias "Laghman" 1
LOGAR Logar Province alias "Logar" 1

Left out 4

These names were found and then set aside. Nothing on the story page counts them.

NameEntryWhyRoads
(the whole entry) AFN Acronym alias, which never matches
ALEXANDRIA Alexandria Carried by more than 100 roads nationally 831
BALCH Balch Carried by more than 100 roads nationally 107
IRON GATE Iron Gate Carried by more than 100 roads nationally 150

Every Wikipedia entry tried 298

Including the entries that matched no road at all.