Vakhsh, Tajikistan
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Vakhsh (, ) is a city in southwestern
Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...
. It is the capital of Vakhsh District. The population of the town is 14,900 (January 2020 estimate). It is about from the capital,
Dushanbe Dushanbe is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely Tajiks, Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as St ...
. It has one of the three Catholic Tajik churches under the Mission sui iuris of Tajikistan.


See also

* Vakhsh Range *
Vakhsh (river) The Vakhsh ( ; Tajik and ), also known as the Surkhob () in north-central Tajikistan and as the Kyzyl-Suu () in Kyrgyzstan, is a Central Asian river and one of the main rivers of Tajikistan. It is a tributary of the Amu Darya river.Populated places in Khatlon Region {{Khatlon-geo-stub