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( tg, Ноҳияи Рӯдакӣ)
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Rudaki District (russian: Район Рудаки; tg, Ноҳияи Рӯдакӣ ''Nohiyai Rudaki'') 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 counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
in
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
, one of the
. It stretches south from
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 ...
, bordering on
Shahrinav District tg, Ноҳияи Шаҳринав
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, the city of
Hisor
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Varzob District tg, Ноҳияи Варзоб
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from the north and northwest, Tajikistan's
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 ...
from the south and the east, and
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...
from the west. Its administrative capital is
Somoniyon, a southern suburb of Dushanbe, called Leninsky in the Soviet period. The population of the district is 518,200 (January 2020 estimate).
A
border guard training center is located here, used by the
Tajik Border Troops
The Border Troops (), also called the Border Service, is the border security force of Tajikistan. Functioning under the State Committee for National Security as part of the Armed Forces, the border guards are trained by the Organization for Se ...
. In October 2013, the
Tajik Interior Ministry opened a new police station in the district.
Administrative divisions
The district has an area of about and is divided administratively into three towns and thirteen
jamoats.
They are as follows:
[Jamoat-level basic indicators]
United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 13 October 2020
References
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Districts of Tajikistan
Districts of Republican Subordination