Kandahar' or Candahar', a town of considerable commercial and strategical importance in the south of Afghanistan, on the direct route to India, 210 mi. s. w. of Kabul. It lies 3484 feet above the sea, and has a large transit trade in silk and felt, chiefly carried on with British India. The town is said to have been founded by Alexander the Great. Population, estimated between 25,000 and 50,000.