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Murghob District
Murghob District () is a district in Tajikistan, occupying the eastern two-thirds of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO). The area of Murghob District is 37,300 km2, covering 26 percent of Tajikistan's soil, but only 0.17% of its population. Murghob District borders on Kyrgyzstan to the north, China to the east, and Afghanistan to the south. The population of Murghob District is 15,900 (1 January 2020 estimate). Its administrative capital is the village Murghob (also known as Murghab). Demographics The estimated population of the district is around 15,900 as of 2020. According to 2015 data, the majority of the population are Kyrgyz people, Kyrgyz (around 80%) while a minority are Pamiris (estimated at 20% of the population). Administrative divisions The district is divided administratively into six jamoats of Tajikistan, jamoats. They are as follows: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Tajikistan
, the regions of Tajikistan Administratively, Tajikistan is divided into: * one autonomous region (; ) * two regions (, ), sing. , , ) * the districts under republic subordination * the capital city, Dushanbe. List of regions ;Notes: Administrative divisions Eac ... are subdivided into 47 districts (, ''nohiya'' or , ''rayon''), not including 4 districts belonging to the capital city Dushanbe, and 18 cities of regional subordination (including Dushanbe, an extraregional capital city). Before ca. 2017, there were 58 districts.''Socio-Economic Atlas of Tajikistan'' World Bank (2005)''Republic of Tajikistan'', map showing administrative division as of January 1, 2004, "Tojjikoinot" Cartographic Press, Dushanbe The districts are further subdivided into municipal uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunt
The Gunt (, ''Ghund'' or Аличур ''Alichur'', historically in English also ''Ghund'') is a river in the south of Tajikistan, north of the Shughnon Range. It is long and has a basin area of .Гунт Its source, Lake Yashilkul, is situated at the edge of the Alichur Pamir, a high plateau or ''pamir'' at an elevation of 3,720 m. The city of |
Yashil Kul
Yashil () is a village in Bakrabad Rural District of the Central District in Varzaqan County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort .... Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 218 in 53 households. The following census in 2011 counted 197 people in 58 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 231 people in 74 households. See also Notes References Populated places in Varzaqan County {{Varzaqan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartang
The Bartang (Russian and Tajik: Бартанг, Persian: برتنگ) is a river of Central Asia, and is a tributary to the Panj which itself is a tributary to the Amu Darya. In its middle and upper reaches, it is respectively known as the Murghab and Aksu; it flows through the Wakhan in Afghanistan, then through the Rushon District of the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region, Tajikistan. The river is long (133 km excluding Aksu and Murghab) and has a basin area of .Бартанг Course The river rises in Chaqmaqtin Lake in the |
Sarez Lake
Sarez Lake ( ) is a lake in Rushon District of Gorno-Badakhshan province, Tajikistan. Its length is about , its depth about a few hundred meters, its water surface elevation about above sea level, and volume of water over . The mountains around it rise over above the lake level. The lake formed in 1911, after a great earthquake, when the Murghab River (Tajikistan), Murghab River was blocked by a big landslide. Scientists believe that the landslide dam formed by the earthquake, known as the Usoi Dam, is unstable given local seismicity, and that the terrain below the lake is in danger of catastrophic flood if the dam were to fail during a future earthquake. The Usoi Dam wall survived a localised 7.2 magnitude earthquake, the 2015 Tajikistan earthquake, on the 7th December 2015 with no visible signs of deterioration. Shadau Lake is a small water body southwest of the Usoi Dam and west of Sarez Lake. Formation The formation of Sarez Lake is described in the book by Middleton and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karakul (Tajikistan)
Karakul or Qarokul ( Kyrgyz for "black lake", replacing the older Tajik name Siob; ; ; , ; ) is an endorheic lake, in diameter, located within a impact crater. It is located in the Tajik National Park in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan. Impact crater Karakul lies within a circular depression, which has been interpreted as an impact crater with a rim diameter of . Some estimates say the impact is relatively recent. A preliminary estimate dated it to between 25 Ma and 23 Ma. However, it may be from the recent Pliocene epoch (5.3 to 2.6 Ma). The Earth Impact Database (EID) also lists it as younger than 5 Ma. It is larger than the Eltanin impact (2.5 Ma), which has already been suggested as a contributor to the cooling and ice cap formation in the Northern Hemisphere during the late Pliocene. The Karakul impact structure was first identified around 1987 through studies of imagery taken from space. Lake description The lake/crater lies at an elevation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamir Highway
The M41, known informally and more commonly as the Pamir Highway (), is a road traversing the Pamir Mountains through Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan with a length of over 1,200 km. It is the only continuous route through the difficult terrain of the mountains and is the main supply route to Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region. The route has been in use for millennia, as there are a limited number of viable routes through the high Pamir Mountains. The road formed one link of the ancient Silk Road trade route. M41 is the Soviet road number, but it only remains as an official designation in post-Soviet Uzbekistan, as confirmed by official decree.Decree of the Republic of Uzbekistan Cabinet. Approval of the List of Public Roads of the Republic of Uzbekistan. 5 August 2010https://lex.uz/docs/-1664887/ref> KyrgyzstanProcedure. Classification and numbering of public highways in the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic. 18 August 2017http://cbd.minjust.gov.kg/a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamir River
The Pamir River is a shared river located in the Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan and in the Gorno-Badakhshan in Tajikistan. It is a tributary of the Panj River, and forms the northern boundary of Afghanistan's Wakhan District. The river has its sources in the Pamir Mountains The Pamir Mountains are a Mountain range, range of mountains between Central Asia and South Asia. They are located at a junction with other notable mountains, namely the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun Mountains, Kunlun, Hindu Kush and the Himalaya ... in the far eastern part of Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. It flows between the Alichur mountain range in the north and the Wakhan District in the south. It starts from the Lake Zorkul, at a height of 4,130 meters, and then flows west, and later southwest. Near the town of Langar, at 2,799 m, its confluences with the Wakhan River forms the Panj River. The Pamir forms the boundary between Afghanistan and Tajikistan along its entire length. Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fedchenko Glacier
The Fedchenko Glacier () or the Vanch-Yakh Glacier () is a large glacier in the Yazgulem Range, Pamir Mountains, of north-central Gorno-Badakhshan province, Tajikistan. The glacier is long and narrow, currently extending for and covering over . It is the longest glacier in the world outside of the polar regions. The maximum thickness of the glacier is , and the volume of the glacier and its dozens of tributaries is estimated at —about a third of the volume of Lake Erie. Path and location The glacier follows a generally northward path to the east of the Garmo Peak. The glacier begins at an elevation of and eventually melts and empties into the Balandkiik River near the border with Kyrgyzstan at an elevation of . Its waters eventually feed down the Muksu, Surkhob, Vakhsh, and Amu Darya rivers into the Aral Sea. To the west is the Academy of Sciences Range, Mount Garmo, Ismoil Somoni Peak, Peak Korzhenevskaya, the headwaters of the Vanj River, and Yazgulyam Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Region Of Republican Subordination
Districts under Tajikistan Central Government Jurisdiction, also translated as Districts of Republican Subordination or Districts under Republic(an) Subordination (; , Latin Tajik alphabet: ), is a region in Tajikistan, consisting of 9 districts and 4 district-level cities that are directly under central administration. Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, is surrounded by the Districts under Central Government Jurisdiction, but not part of it. The region shares a border with Dushanbe, Sughd, GBAO, Khatlon, Kyrgyzstan (Batken and Osh regions) and Uzbekistan ( Surxondaryo). The region covers an area of 28,500 square kilometres, and has a total population of 2,165,900 (2020). The Districts' ethnic composition in 2010 was 85% Tajik and 11.7% Uzbek. History After the dissolution of Stalinabad Oblast in 1951, the territories of the former province became directly subordinate to the government of the Tajik SSR, which is how the name came about. In 1955, the Gharm Oblast was dissolved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains, Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Kyrgyzstan, largest city. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the Kazakhstan–Kyrgyzstan border, north, Uzbekistan to the Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan border, west, Tajikistan to the Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border, south, and China to the China–Kyrgyzstan border, east and southeast. Ethnic Kyrgyz people, Kyrgyz make up the majority of the country's over 7 million people, followed by significant minorities of Uzbeks and Russians. Kyrgyzstan's history spans a variety of cultures and empires. Although geographically isolated by its highly mountainous terrain, Kyrgyzstan has been at the crossroads of several great civilizations as part of the Silk Road along with other commercial routes. Inhabited by a succession of tribes and clans, Kyrgyzstan has periodically fallen unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
