Levakant (russian: Левакант; tg, Левакант, Kalininabad (Калилининобод) until February 1996, Sarband (Сарбанд) until January 2018), is a city in south-west
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 is part of
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 ...
, located just east of the regional capital
Bokhtar
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and about 120 km south of the 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 ...
. The
Golovnaya Dam
The Golovnaya Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Vakhsh River just east of Sarband in Khatlon Province, Tajikistan. It serves to provide water to a system of irrigation canals and generate hydroelectric power. The first generator was comm ...
on the river
Vakhsh lies directly to its east.
Its population is estimated at 17,700 for the city proper and 48,300 for the city with the outlying communities (2020).
Levakant is home to Tajikistan's only fertilizer manufacturing plant, ''Tajik Azot''.
Climate
Levakant has a
hot-summer Mediterranean climate
A Mediterranean climate (also called a dry summer temperate climate ''Cs'') is a temperate climate sub-type, generally characterized by warm, dry summers and mild, fairly wet winters; these weather conditions are typically experienced in the ...
(
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...
''Csa'').
Subdivisions
Before ca. 2018, Levakant was the seat of
Sarband District
Sarband District or Nohiya-i Sarband ( tg, Ноҳияи Сарбанд) is a former district in Khatlon Region, Tajikistan. Its capital was Levakant
Levakant (russian: Левакант; tg, Левакант, Kalininabad (Калилинино ...
, which covered the present city of Levakant.
The city of Levakant covers Levakant proper and two
jamoats. These are as follows:
[Jamoat-level basic indicators]
United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 8 October 2020
See also
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List of cities in Tajikistan
This is a list of cities in Tajikistan.
The largest metropolitan area in Tajikistan is that of the capital Dushanbe, with 863,400 inhabitants (2020 est.). Thirteen percent of the population of the country lives in the region of the capital.
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References
{{Khatlon
Populated places in Khatlon Region