tg, Ноҳияи Хуросон
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Region
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Khatlon Region
Khatlon Region ( tg, Вилояти Хатлон, ''Viloyati Xatlon''), one of the four provinces of Tajikistan ( tg, вилоят, ''Viloyat''), is the most populous of the four first level administrative regions. It is situated in the southwest ...
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Obikiik
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Khuroson District (russian: Хуросонский район; tg, Ноҳияи Хуросон, 1991-2004: ''Ghozimalik District'', before 1991: ''Kuybyshev District'') is a
district
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in
Khatlon Region
Khatlon Region ( tg, Вилояти Хатлон, ''Viloyati Xatlon''), one of the four provinces of Tajikistan ( tg, вилоят, ''Viloyat''), is the most populous of the four first level administrative regions. It is situated in the southwest ...
of
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
. It extends south from national capital
Dushanbe
Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (r ...
toward the regional capital
Bokhtar
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. Its capital is the town
Obikiik (former name: ''Pravda''). The population of the district is 116,500 (January 2020 estimate).
Administrative divisions
The district has an area of about and is divided administratively into one town and five
jamoats.
They are as follows:
[Jamoat-level basic indicators]
United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 9 October 2020
References
Districts of Khatlon Region
Districts of Tajikistan
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