Most of those who died were out shopping for food to breakthe daily fast of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The attacks in Nimroz province in the southwest and Kunduzin the north came during a campaign by Taliban insurgents and their allies tostep up attacks as international troops hand over security responsibility toAfghan forces.
NATO plans to withdraw most of its troops by the end of2014.
There were no claims of responsibility for any of theblasts.
At least 25 civilians and 11 police were killed in Nimrozwhen several men wearing suicide bomb vests detonated their explosives indifferent areas of the provincial capital of Zaranj, provincial police chiefMusa Rasouli said.
Not all of the attackers were able to set off their bombs.
Police killed or captured several of them, officials said.
One explosion mid-afternoon Tuesday went off outside ahospital near a busy market packed with people shopping for the feast at theend of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which starts this weekend, officialssaid.
Nimroz Governor Abdul Karim Barawi said there were threeblasts in the city, but accounts by officials differed amid the chaos in theremote area that has had relatively few insurgent attacks in the past year.
At least two attackers wearing suicide bomb vests andcarrying weapons also attacked the governor's compound but were killed bysecurity forces before they could set off their explosives, Rasouli said.
Nimroz deputy police chief Abdul Majid Latifa said 14bombers in all were involved in the plot, while Rasouli put the number at 11.
