Tajik Tajik, Tadjik, Tadzhik or Tajikistani may refer to: * Someone or something related to Tajikistan * Tajiks, an ethnic group in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan * Tajik language, the official language of Tajikistan * Tajik (surname) * Tajik cu ...

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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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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 the village Shuroobod. Shuroobod District was renamed

Shamsiddin Shohin Shamsiddin Mohammed Shohin ( tg, Шамсиддини Шоҳи) was a Tajik poet born around 1865-1866 in Bukhara Bukhara (Uzbek language, Uzbek: /, ; tg, Бухоро, ) is the List of cities in Uzbekistan, seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan, ...

in memory of this Tajik poet.

Administrative divisions

The district has an area of about and is divided administratively into seven jamoats. They are as follows:Jamoat-level basic indicators
United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 11 October 2020

Geography

Shamsiddin Shohin District is bordered in the north by

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and Khovaling District, in the west by Mu'minobod District and

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, all in

. In the east and south, across the river

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 (Janu ...

, it borders Afghanistan. It is located in the foothills of the Hazrati Shoh mountains.

References

Districts of Khatlon Region Districts of Tajikistan {{Tajikistan-geo-stub