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Khatlon Province
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Khatlon Province is a region in the southern part of Tajikistan, a country in Central Asia. It is one of the major administrative divisions of Tajikistan and plays an important role in the country's economy and population distribution.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Tajikistan
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Tajikistan
- Capital
- Bokhtar
- Population
- 3444000
- Area
- 24600
- Time zone
- UTC+05:00
- Shares border with
- Badakhshan Province
- Image
- Obiminob muhala-e shawun - panoramio.jpg
- Dialing code
- 3222
- Licence plate code
- 03РТ
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- different from
- Catalonia
- language used
- Southern Pashto
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Khatlon Region
- Commons category
- Khatlon Province
- topic's main category
- Category:Khatlon Region
- category for people born here
- Q8077767
- inception
- 1988-09-08
- postal code
- 735140
- native label
- Вилояти Хатлон
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Encyclopedic overview
Khatlon Region (Tajik: Вилояти Хатлон, romanized: Viloyati Xatlon), one of the four provinces of Tajikistan, is the most populous of the four first-level administrative regions in the country. It is situated in the southwest of the country, between the Hisor (Gissar) Range in the north and the river Panj in the south and borders on Districts under Republican Subordination in the north, on GBAO in the east, on Afghanistan (Balkh, Kunduz, Takhar and Badakhshan provinces) in the southeast and on Uzbekistan (Surxondaryo region)in the west. During Soviet times, Khatlon was divided into Kurgan-Tyube (Qurghonteppa) Oblast (Western Khatlon) – with the Kofarnihon and Vakhsh river valleys – and Kulob Oblast (Eastern Khatlon) – with the Kyzylsu and Yakhsu river valleys. The two regions were merged in November 1992 into today's Khatlon Region (or viloyat/oblast). The capital city is Bokhtar, formerly known as Qurghonteppa and Kurgan-Tyube.
Khatlon has an area of 24,700 square kilometres and consists of 21 districts and 4 district-level cities. The total population of Khatlon in 2020 was 3,348,300, up from 2,677,251 in the 2010 population census. The population in Khatlon is mainly engaged in agriculture.
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