Varzob () is a settlement in
Varzob District,
Districts 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 distric ...
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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 ...
, in central Asia. It is the administrative center for the Varzob District.
Geography
Varzob is located on the left (east) bank of the river
Varzob, about 25 km north of
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 ...
. The village of Begar lies about 2.5 km north of Varzob on the right bank of the river, and the village of Varzobkala
[, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency] lies just 0.75 km south of Varzob on the right bank of the river.
There are seven rivers in the area: the Varzob, the
Simiganj, the
Sioma, the
Seer, the
Vakhsh, the
Amoo, and the
Sorhob.
Notes
Populated places in Districts of Republican Subordination
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