Gharmayn (, ''Garmen'', Yaghnobi: Ғармен ''Gharmen'') is a village in

Sughd Region Sughd Province, also referred to as the Sogdia Region, and Leninabad before 2001, is one of the four administrative divisions and one of the three provinces that make up Tajikistan. Centered in the historical Sogdiana, it is located in the north ...

, northwestern

Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...

. It is part of the

jamoat The jamoats of Tajikistan (; , "village communes") are the third-level administrative divisions, similar to communes or municipalities, in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan. As of January 2020, there are 368 rural jamoats, 65 towns and 18 ci ...

Anzob Anzob ( Tajik: Анзоб) is a village and jamoat in north-west Tajikistan. It is located in Ayni District in Sughd Region, in the Zarafshan Range, about north of Dushanbe. The jamoat has a total population of 8,238 (2015).

in the

Ayni District Ayni District, also ''Aini District'' (; , ''Nohiyayi Aynī''), is a Districts of Tajikistan, district in the southern part of Sughd Region, Tajikistan, straddling the middle course of the river Zeravshan (river), Zeravshan. Its capital is the tow ...

. Its population was 47 in 2017, down slightly from 49 in 2007. It is sometimes divided into a lower part (''Domani Gharmen'') and an upper part (''Sari Gharmen''). The village consisted of several dwellings, that typically of Yaghnobi villages are constructed of dry stone walls and flat roofs. The village is connected by a road and possesses a water mill. The main crops are potatoes which are grown on the steep slope that the village sits on. There is no terracing.

Toponymy

The village's name is Yaghnobi for "mountain village". The first part of its name "ғар", the Yaghnobi word for mountain, derives from the Sogdian "ꙋr", also meaning mountain.

Geography

Gharmayn is situated at an altitude of approximately above sea level. The village is located from the center of the

, and from the center of the

Demographics

Its population was 47 people as of 2017, slightly down from 49 in 2007.

References

Populated places in Sughd Region Yaghnob {{Sughd-geo-stub