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Sughd Region Sughd Province ( tg, Вилояти Суғд, Viloyati Sughd, Sogdia Region , fa, ولایت سغد) is one of the four administrative divisions and one of the three provinces ( tg, вилоятҳо, viloyatho , fa, ولایت) that make up ...

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in the northern part of

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. Its capital is

, a town in the south of the district. The district surrounds, but does not include the cities

Khujand Khujand ( tg, Хуҷанд, Khujand; Uzbek: Хўжанд, romanized: Хo'jand; fa, خجند‌, Khojand), sometimes spelled Khodjent and known as Leninabad (russian: Ленинабад, Leninabad; tg, Ленинобод, Leninobod; fa, لن� ...

(the regional capital),

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(in the north), Buston (formerly ''Chkalovsk'', in the south), and

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(formerly ''Kayrakkum''), also in the south, which gave its name to the adjacent

Kayrakkum Reservoir Kayrakkum Reservoir ( Tajik: Обанбори Қайроққум; Russian: Кайраккумское водохранилище), also spelled variously as Qayroqqum, Qayraqqum, Kayrakum or Kairakum, is a large artificial lake in Ghafurov Distric ...

. The district has a population of 380,500 (as of 2020), with 95% classified as rural. It produced 19,500 tons of raw cotton in 2007, accounting for 16% of total cotton production in Sughd province and nearly 5% of Tajikistan's cotton production.

Administrative divisions

The district has an area of about and is divided administratively into one town and eleven jamoats. They are as follows:Jamoat-level basic indicators
United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 3 October 2020

References

Districts of Tajikistan Sughd Region {{Tajikistan-geo-stub