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Murghob District

District in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Tajikistan

Murghob District Tajik: Ноҳияи Мурғоб
District
Ноҳияи Мурғоб

Location of Murghob District in Tajikistan
Coordinates: Russian (Interethnic) Tajik (State)^[2]

Murghob District (Tajik: Ноҳияи Мурғоб) is a district in Tajikistan, occupying the eastern two-thirds of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO). The area of Murghob District is 37,300 km², covering 26 percent of Tajikistan's soil, but only 0.17% of its population.^[3] Murghob District borders on Kyrgyzstan to the north, China to the east, and Afghanistan to the south.^[4] The population of Murghob District is 15,900 (1 January 2020 estimate).^[1] Its administrative capital is the village Murghob (also known as Murghab).

Demographics

The estimated population of the district is around 15,900 as of 2020.^[1] According to 2015 data, the majority of the population are Kyrgyz (around 80%) while a minority are Pamiris (estimated at 20% of the population).^[5]

Administrative divisions

The district is divided administratively into six jamoats.^[3] They are as follows:^[6]

Jamoat	Population (Jan. 2015)^[6]
Alichur	2,242
Gozho Berdiboev	1,368
Karakul	757
Murghob	7,468
Qizilrabot	1,675
Rangkul	1,569

Geography

It borders Afghanistan to the south, China's Xinjiang region to the east, and Kyrgyzstan to the north. Within Tajikistan it is bordered to the west by four other GBAO districts and the Region of Republican Subordination.^[7]

The land is mostly a desolate plateau with scattered mountains, especially toward the east and south. The highest mountains are around the Fedchenko Glacier in the northwest and along the Pamir River in the south. The population consists of around 65% Kyrgyz who migrated to the Pamirs in the late XIII century, and the rest are Pamiris who are indigenous people of the Tajik and Chinese Pamir Region. Formerly the highlands was used by both ethnicities mostly as summer pasture. The Pamir Highway curves from the southwest to the northeast. The four major lakes are Karakul in the northeast and three river lakes: Sarez Lake on the river Bartang, Yashil Kul on the river Gunt, and Zorkul on the Pamir River.

The district's eastern border shares the Sarikol Range with China.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2020" (PDF) (in Russian). Statistics office of Tajikistan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
^ "КОНСТИТУЦИЯ РЕСПУБЛИКИ ТАДЖИКИСТАН". prokuratura.tj. Parliament of Tajikistan. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Regions of the Republic of Tajikistan 2017" (PDF) (in Russian). Statistics office of Tajikistan. pp. 15–21. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
^ Borjian, Habib, “Morḡāb” , Encyclopaedia Iranica. Online 2013. [1].
^ Mostowlansky, Till (2017). Azan on the Moon: Entangling Modernity along Tajikistan's Pamir Highway. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-8229-8240-1.
^ ^a ^b Jamoat-level basic indicators, United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 7 October 2020
^ Republic of Tajikistan, map showing administrative division as of January 1, 2004, "Tojikkoinot" Cartographic Press, Dushanbe