tg, Ноҳияи Панҷ
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Khatlon Region
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Panj
Panj () is a city in southern Tajikistan which is situated on the Afghan border, some south of the capital Dushanbe. It is located along the north bank of the river Panj, from which it derives its name. The population of the town is 12,500 (Jan ...
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Panj District (russian: Пянджский район; tg, Ноҳияи Панҷ ''Nohiyai Panj'') is a
district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...
in
Khatlon Region,
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
. Its capital is
Panj
Panj () is a city in southern Tajikistan which is situated on the Afghan border, some south of the capital Dushanbe. It is located along the north bank of the river Panj, from which it derives its name. The population of the town is 12,500 (Jan ...
. The population of the district is 119,700 (January 2020 estimate).
The district has been an area of ethnic tensions betweek its
Uzbek and
Tajik residents. During the early
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
period the district was officially named Kirovobod District.
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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