Shughnon Range or Shugnan Range () is a mountain range in

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 ...

, part of the Pamir Mountain System. Administratively it is located in

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Geography

The Shughnon Range stretches between the river valleys of the

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 .Shakhdara The Shakhdara (, ) is a left tributary of the Gunt River in southeastern Tajikistan. The Shakhdara has its source in the eastern part of the Shakhdara Range, not far from the Matz Pass and the Afghan border, in the extreme south of the Pamir ...

in the south. Its slopes are covered in alpine meadows and

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. There are glaciated areas in the range.Glaciers of Shugnan Range
/ref> Its highest summit is 5,704 m high

Pik Skalisty Pik Skalisty () is the highest peak in the Shughnon Range, Pamir. It is located in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province Gorno-Badakhshan, officially the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in eastern Taji ...

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Mountain ranges of Tajikistan Districts of Republican Subordination Pamir Mountains {{tajikistan-geo-stub

Geography

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