Skip to content
EntityQ7266788· pop 6· linked from 3 articles

Qareh Bulaq

Sign in to save

Also known as Qarabolaq

Qarabolaq or Qareh Bulaq () is a small settlement in the Great Pamir in Wakhan District, Badakhshan Province, northeastern Afghanistan. It lies at an altitude of 4,139 m on the eastern shore of Zorkul lake, near the Afghan border with Tajikistan but also close to the Afghan borders with Pakistan and China.

In the Vinony graph

The entry is geolocated on the map in AF, across 2 mapped points.

Within Vinony's link graph, Qareh Bulaq is referenced by 3 other articles, and connects out to China, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

It sits within the topics Populated places in Wakhan District, Villages in Afghanistan and Wakhan.

Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.

Weather now

cached 2224h ago
9°overcast clouds
33% 1.9 m/s OpenWeatherMap

7-day forecast

via Open-Meteo

Place details

Region
ولایت بدخشان
Country
افغانستان
Population
0

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Air quality

53US AQIModerate
PM2.5
13.4 µg/m³
PM10
30.7 µg/m³
As of 2026-08-12 09:30 · Open-Meteo

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human settlement
Located in
Wakhan
Elevation
4139
Sources (1)

via Wikidata · CC0

~1 min read

Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • Climate
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Qarabolaq or Qareh Bulaq () is a small settlement in the Great Pamir in Wakhan District, Badakhshan Province, northeastern Afghanistan. It lies at an altitude of 4,139 m on the eastern shore of Zorkul lake, near the Afghan border with Tajikistan but also close to the Afghan borders with Pakistan and China.

==Climate== Qarabolaq has an alpine tundra climate (Köppen: ET). It has brief, cool summers and long, frigid winters. With an annual mean of , Qarabolaq lies in the continuous permafrost zone.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qareh Bulaq” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map

2 mapped locations

Available in 5 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0

Connections

Categories