Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region
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Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAR) is a mountainous province (region) of Tajikistan. It makes up 40% of the land area of the country.
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Geography
The highest mountains in the Pamirs and 3 of the 5 7000m summits in Soviet Central Asia are located here, with Lenin Peak (7134m, on the border with Kyrgyzstan), Communism Peak (Ismail Samani) (7495m) and Peak Korzhenievski (7105m).
Demographics
The region is populated mostly by ethnic [shughnani, rushani, ishkashimi, vakhani], with a minority of Kyrgyz living mostly in the Murgab area. Shughnani, rushani, vakhani peoples have their own language, ehich differ from tajik. (C) PaMirX
Transportation
Only two easily navigable roads connect GBAR to the outside world, Khorog-Osh and Khorog-Dushanbe. A third road from Khorog to Tashkurgan in China is very rough. Gorno-Badakhshan is separated from Pakistan by the narrow, but nearly impassable, Wakhan Corridor. Another road leads from Khorog into the Wakhan and across the Afghan border.
External link
- State agency on antiexclusive politics and support of business at Government of Republic of Tadjikistan (http://www.apmp.tojikiston.com/info12.htm)
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