Shughnon Range or Shugnan Range (russian: Шугнанский хребет) is a mountain range in

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

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

's Region of Republican Subordination. Google Earth

Geography

The Shughnon Range stretches between the river valleys of the

Gunt The Gunt (russian: Гунт, tg, Ғунд ''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 .< ...

in the north and its tributary the Shakhdara in the south. Its slopes are covered in alpine meadows and

steppe In physical geography, a steppe () is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes. Steppe biomes may include: * the montane grasslands and shrublands biome * the temperate grasslan ...

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

References

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

Geography

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