Langar is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the

Wakhan District Wakhan District is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan. Located between Tajikistan in the north and Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral District in the south, the district separates Tajikistan and Pakistan wh ...

Badakhshan Province Badakhshan Province (Dari: بدخشان) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bordered by Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan in the north and the Pakistani regions of Lower and Upper C ...

, in north-eastern

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. It lies on the river Panj, opposite the larger village of Toqakhona in

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. The place should not be confused with a seasonal settlement called Langar, also in Wakhan, on the upper Wakhan River, some 130 km east.Aga Khan Development Network (2010): ''Wakhan and the Afghan Pamir''
Map on p.5

Geography

The village lies towards the northern edge of the

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mountain range which crosses over into

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and is at an elevation of . Langar is situated away from Romanit, away from Darshai, away from Sar Shkhawr and away from Shkhawr.

Transport

The nearest airport is to the north, at

Khorugh Khorog ( ), also Khorugh ( ) or Kharagh ( ), is the capital of Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. It is also the capital of the Shughnon District of Gorno-Badakhshan. It has a population of 30,500 (2020 ). Khorog is above sea level in the Pamir M ...

in Tajikistan.

References

Populated places in Wakhan District Wakhan {{Badakhshan-geo-stub