Editing Mazar-i-Sharif (section)

===Transportation===
{{Further|Transport in Afghanistan}}

====Rail====
[[File:Hairatan to Mazar-e-Sharif Railway Project in Afghanistan.jpg|thumb|Railway terminal]]
It became the first city in Afghanistan to connect itself by rail with a neighboring country. [[Rail transport in Afghanistan|Rail service]] from Mazar-i-Sharif to [[Uzbekistan]] began in December 2011 and cargo on [[freight rail transport|freight trains]] arrive at a station near [[Mazar-i-Sharif Airport]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16287929 |work=BBC News |title=Afghan railway: First train runs on new line in north |date=December 21, 2011}}</ref> where the goods are reloaded onto trucks or airplanes and sent to their last destinations across Afghanistan.

====Air====
As of June 2016 [[Mazar-i-Sharif Airport]] has direct air connections to [[Kabul International Airport|Kabul]], [[Mashhad Airport|Mashad]], [[Tehran]], and [[Istanbul-Atatürk|Istanbul]].

====Road====
Highway [[AH76]] links Mazar-i-Sharif to [[Sheberghan]] in the west, and [[Pul-e Khomri]] and [[Kabul]] to the south-east. Roads to the east link it to [[Kunduz]]. Roads to the north link it to the [[Uzbekistan|Uzbek]] border town [[Termez]], where it becomes highway M39 going north to [[Samarkand]] and [[Tashkent]]. Roads to the south link it to [[Bamiyan Province]] and the mountainous range of central Afghanistan.