Panji Poyon ( tg, Панҷи Поён), also known since the times of the

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"Remote Tajik outpost on front line of drugs war"
/ref> as Nizhny Panj (from russian: Нижний Пяндж, Nizhniy Pyandzh) is a border checkpoint on the Tajik side of the

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border. Both Tajik and Russian names mean literally "Lower Panj". It is the place of an Afghanistan-Tajikistan Bridge across the

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. At the opposite side of the river lies the Sherkhan Bandar of

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. It is the last point on the

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. The outpost witnesses the increase of drug traffic. Within the framework of international cooperation, in 2008 the new customs facility was built with the help of the

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at the outpost. Panji Poyon has recorded the highest temperature ever recorded in Tajikistan: .

References

{{reflist Geography of Tajikistan Afghanistan–Tajikistan border crossings