Pamir Mountains
The Pamir Mountains are a mountain range in Central Asia at the confluence of the Himalayas with the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, and Hindu Kush ranges.
Articles in Tajikistan ( 125 )
125 Articles of interest in Tajikistan
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The Amu Darya (Persian: آمودریا, Āmūdaryā; Turkmen: Amyderýa; Turkish: Ceyhun; Uzbek: Amudaryo; Tajik: Амударё; Pashto: د آمو سيند, da Āmú Sínd; Ancient Greek: Ὦξος, Oxos; Latin: Oxus), also called Amu River, is a major river in Central Asia. It i…
Khujand
Khujand (Tajik: Хуҷанд, خجند; Russian: Худжанд Khudzhand), formerly Khodjend or Khodzhent until 1936 and Leninabad (Leninobod, Ленинобод, لنینآباد) until 1991, is the second-largest city of Tajikistan and the capital of the northernmost province of…
Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic
The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic (Tajik: Республикаи Советии Социалистии Тоҷикистон, Respuʙlikaji Sovetiji Sotsialistiji Toçikiston; Russian: Таджикская Советская Социалистическая Республика, Tadzhikskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika…
Dushanbe International Airport
Dushanbe International Airport (IATA: DYU, ICAO: UTDD) is an airport in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. Dushanbe Airport is a main hub for Somon Air and Tajik Air. Tajik Air has its head office on the property.
Lenin Peak
Lenin Peak (Kyrgyz: Ленин Чокусу, Russian: Пик Ленина; Tajik: қуллаи Ленин, renamed қуллаи Абӯалӣ ибни Сино in July 2006), rises to 7,134 metres (23,406 ft) in Gorno-Badakhshan (GBAO) on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and is the second-hig…
Ismoil Somoni Peak
Ismoil Somoni Peak (Tajik: Қуллаи Исмоили Сомонӣ, Qullai Ismoili Somonī; Russian: пик Исмаила Самани pik Ismaila Samani) is the highest mountain in Tajikistan and in the former Russian Empire and later in the Soviet Union, named after Ismail Samani,…
Geography of Tajikistan
Tajikistan is nestled between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan to the north and west, China to the east, and Afghanistan to the south. Mountains cover 93 percent of Tajikistan's surface area. The two principal ranges, the Pamir Mountains and the Alay Mount…
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (Tajik: Вилояти Мухтори Кӯҳистони Бадахшон, Viloyati Mukhtori Kūhistoni Badakhshon; Persian: ولایت مختار کوهستان بدخشان; Russian: Горно-Бадахшанская автономная область, Gorno-Badakhšanskaya avtonomnaya oblast’) is…
Alexandria Eschate
Alexandria Eschate (Greek Ἀλεξάνδρεια Ἐσχάτη, Latin: Alexandria Ultima, English meaning "Alexandria the Farthest") or Alexandria Eskhata was founded by Alexander the Great in August 329 BCE as his most northerly base in Central Asia. It was establis…
Karakul (Tajikistan)
Karakul/Qarokul or more accurately, Siob (Tajik for "black lake" or "black water"), is a 25 km (16 mi) diameter lake in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan.
Oxus Treasure
The Oxus treasure is a collection of about 180 surviving pieces of metalwork in gold and silver, the majority rather small, plus perhaps about 200 coins, from the Achaemenid Persian period which were found by the Oxus river about 1877-1880. The exac…
Khorugh
The town of Khorugh (Tajik: Хоруғ, Persian: خاروغ ), also transliterated as Horog, Khoroq, Khorogh, Khorog, or Xoroq is the capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan (Tajik: Kuhistoni Badakhshon, "Badakhshan Mountainous Region") Autonomous Province (GBAO) in…
Mount Imeon
Mount Imeon /ˈɪmiən/ is an ancient name for the Central Asian complex of mountain ranges comprising the present Hindu Kush, Pamir and Tian Shan, extending from the Zagros Mountains in the southwest to the Altay Mountains in the northeast, and linked…
Kulob
Kulob (Tajik: Кӯлоб / Persian: کولاب, meaning lake water, the prior an Uzbek word and latter Tajik), also Kulab or Kulyab (Russian: Куляб), is a city in Kulob district, Khatlon Province, Tajikistan. Located 203 km south-east of the capital Dushanbe…
Vakhsh River
The Vakhsh River (Tajik: Вахш), also known as the Surkhob (in north-central Tajikistan) and the Kyzyl-Suu (in Kyrgyzstan), is a Central Asian river, and one of the main rivers of the nation of Tajikistan.
Usoi Dam
The Usoi Dam is a natural landslide dam along the Murghab River in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan. At 567 metres (1,860 ft) high, it is the tallest dam in the world, either natural or man-made.
Qurghonteppa
Qurghonteppa or Kurganteppa (Tajik: Қурғонтеппа), formerly known as Kurgan-Tyube (Russian: Курган-Тюбе, Persian: قرغانتپه, Uzbek: Qo’rg’ontepa), is a city in southwestern Tajikistan. It is the capital of the Khatlon region and it is located 100 km…
Sarez Lake
Sarez Lake is a lake in Rushon District of Gorno-Badakhshan province, Tajikistan. Length about 75.8 km, depth few hundred meters, water surface elevation about 3,263 m over sea level and volume of water is more than 16 km³.
Panjakent
Panjakent (Tajik: Панҷакент; Persian: پنجکنت; Russian: Пенджикент), also spelled Panjikent, Panjekent, Panjikant or Penjikent, is a city in the Sughd province of Tajikistan on the Zeravshan River, with a population of 33,000 (2000 census). It was o…
Sarazm
Sarazm is an ancient town and also a jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It dates back to the 4th millennium BCE and is today a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Khujand Airport
Khudjand International Airport (IATA: LBD, ICAO: UTDL) is an airport serving Khujand, the second-largest city in Tajikistan.
Zeravshan River
Zarafshan River (also Zaravshan or Zarafshon, Tajik: Дарёи ЗарафшонDaryai Zarafshon, Uzbek: Zeravshon, from the Persian word zar-afshān, زرافشان, meaning "the spreader of gold") is a river in Central Asia. Its name, "spreader of gold" in Persian, re…
Fedchenko Glacier
The Fedchenko Glacier (Russian Федченко) is a large glacier in the Pamir Mountains of north-central Gorno-Badakhshan province, Tajikistan. The glacier is long and narrow, currently extending for 77 kilometres (48 mi) and covering over 700 square kil…
Sughd Region
Sughd Region (Tajik: Вилояти Суғд Viloyati Sughd; Persian: ولایت سغد, transliterated as Sogdia Province) is one of the four administrative divisions and one of the three provinces (Tajik: вилоятҳо, viloyatho) that make up Tajikistan. Centered in th…
Murghab, Tajikistan
Murghab (Tajik Мурғоб; Russian Мургаб, from the Persian word مرغاب (margh-ab) meaning "prairie river") is the capital of Murghob District in the Pamir Mountains of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Tajikistan. With a population 4,000, Murghab is a…
Fann Mountains
Fann Mountains (also known as the Fanns) are part of the western Pamir-Alay mountain system and are located in Tajikistan's Sughd Province between the Zarafshan Range to the north and the Gissar Range to the south (see map of Fann Mountains).
Districts of Republican Subordination
Districts of Republican Subordination (Tajik: Ноҳияҳои тобеи ҷумҳурӣ, Nohiyahoi tobei jumhurī; Persian: ناحیه های تابع جمهوری; Russian: Районы республиканского подчинения, Rayonî respublikanskogo podchineniya) is a region in Tajikistan, consisting …
Khatlon Region
Khatlon Region (Tajik: Хатлон/Persian: ختلان), sometimes misspelt Khatlan, one of the three provinces of Tajikistan (Tajik: вилоят, viloyat) and is the most populous of the four first level administrative regions. It is situated in the southwest of…
Isfara
Isfara (Tajik: Исфара, Persian: اسفره) is a city in Sughd Province in northern Tajikistan, situated on the border with Kyrgyzstan. It has a population of 40,600 (2008 est.).
Zorkul
Zorkul (or Sir-i-kol) is a lake in the Pamir Mountains that runs along the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It extends east to west for about 25 km. The Afghan-Tajik border runs along the lake from east to west, turning south towards Conco…
Istaravshan
Istaravshan is a city in Sughd Province in Tajikistan. Located in the northern foothills of the Turkistan mountain range, 78 kilometers southwest of Khujand, Istaravshan is one of the oldest cities in Tajikistan, having existed for more than 2500 ye…
Qurghonteppa International Airport
Qurghonteppa International Airport is an airport in Kurgan Tyube, Tajikistan (IATA: KQT, ICAO: UTDT).
Khazret Sultan
Khazret Sultan (in Uzbek Hazrati Sulton choʻqqisi) is a mountain and the highest point of Uzbekistan, with an elevation of 4,643 metres (15,233 ft). It is located on the border between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, in Surkhandarya Province, in the Uzbe…
Peak Korzhenevskaya
Korzhenevskaya Peak is the third highest peak in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. It is one of the five "Snow Leopard Peaks" in the territory of the former Soviet Union. It is named after Evgenia Korzhenevskaya, the wife of Russian geographer Niko…
Iskanderkul
Iskanderkul is a mountain lake of glacial origin in Tajikistan's Sughd Province. It lies at an altitude of 2,195 metres (7,201 ft) on the northern slopes of the Gissar Range in the Fann Mountains. Triangular in shape, it has a surface area of 3.4 sq…