Ishkoshim,_Tajikistan

Ishkoshim, Tajikistan

Ishkoshim, Tajikistan

Place in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Tajikistan

This article is about the border town in Tajikistan. For the adjacent border town in Afghanistan, see Ishkashim, Afghanistan.

Ishkoshim (Tajik: Ишкошим), also Ishkashim (Russian: Ишкашим), is a village and a jamoat in south-east Tajikistan.[3] It is the seat of Ishkoshim District in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region. The jamoat has a total population of 7,673 (2015).[1] It lies on the river Panj, at the point where its direction turns sharply north. Ishkoshim lies opposite a town of the same name in neighboring Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan, although the name of the Afghan town is normally transliterated Ishkashim. A bridge opened in 2006 links the two towns.[4] There are plans to reconstruct the 100-km highway connecting Ishkoshim to the regional capital Khorugh, which has been damaged by snow avalanches.[5]

The Ishkoshim border bridge
Near the bridge
Locals in the town
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References

  1. [1]
    Jamoat-level basic indicators, United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 7 October 2020
  2. [2]
    "КОНСТИТУЦИЯ РЕСПУБЛИКИ ТАДЖИКИСТАН". prokuratura.tj. Parliament of Tajikistan. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  3. [3]
    Location of Ishkoshim on maplandia.com. Retrieved on 8 May 2009
  4. [4]
    "News: Aga Khan and President Rahmonov inaugurate reconstructed bridge in Ishkashim". Asia-Plus. 2006-10-31. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
  5. [5]
    Restoration of Khorugh-Ishkoshim highway Archived 2009-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, President's speech, 18 July 2008. Retrieved on 8 May 2009
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