Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming part of South Asia, Central Asia, and Greater Middle East, it is also considered to be part of a broader West Asia. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of 647,500 km2 (250,001 sq mi), making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world. It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and the east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast.

Afghanistan plays a large role in the revamped origin of the comic book superhero, Iron Man. As per the fourth volume of his own ongoing series, Iron Man, who is in reality billionaire industrialist Tony Stark, was in Afghanistan on a business trip in the early 1990s at the onset of the Persian Gulf War. Tony's company, Stark Industries, had developed seedpod "cluster" bombs that were being used against Al Qaeda rebels. It was during an inspection tour that one of Stark's own bombs detonated, sending a piece of shrapnel into his chest, nearly killing him. This incident prompted Tony to build the Mark I power armor, which contained a magnetic field generator that kept the shrapnel in a static position so that it would not pierce his heart.

Comics that take place in

 * Iron Man, Volume 4
 * Iron Man, Volume 4 #1