The Kofarnihon (, ) is one of the major tributaries of the
Amu Darya
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(together with
Vakhsh and
Panj) in Tajikistan. The river is long and has a basin area of .
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It rises on the southern slopes of
Gissar Range in
Vahdat district, formerly Kofarnihon district, and flows in the general south-western direction past the cities of
Vahdat
Vahdat () is a city in western Tajikistan, on the bank of the Kofarnihon River, 21 km east of Dushanbe. It was previously called Yangi-Bozor (1927–1936), Orjonikidzeobod (1936–1993, after Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze) and Kofarnihon (1993–200 ...
and
Dushanbe
Dushanbe is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely Tajiks, Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as St ...
, where it turns south and runs through
Khatlon Province toward the
border with Afghanistan. It falls into Amudarya some 40 km west of the confluence point of Vakhsh and Panj rivers. The Kofarnihon is an important source of drinking water, and yet it is highly polluted by irrigation runoff and inadequately cleaned recycled water around the cities of Dushanbe and Vahdat.
For part of its course, it forms the
border between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Its main tributaries are the
Varzob and
Khanaka from the right, and the
Elok from the right.
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Kafirnigan River
Rivers of Tajikistan
Rivers of Uzbekistan
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