Gorno-Badakhshan
38°0′N 73°0′E / 38.000°N 73.000°E
Gorno-Badakhshan | |
|---|---|
| Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region | |
| Name transcription(s) | |
| • Tajik | Вилояти Мухтори Кӯҳистони Бадахшон |
| • Russian | Горно-Бадахшанская автономная область |
Gorno-Badakhshan in Tajikistan | |
| Country | Tajikistan |
| Capital | Khorog |
| Government | |
| • Chairman | Alisher Khudoyberdi |
| Area | |
• Total | 64,200 km2 (24,800 sq mi) |
| Population (2019) | |
• Total | 226,900 |
| • Density | 3.5/km2 (9.2/sq mi) |
| ISO 3166 code | TJ-GB |
| HDI (2017) | 0.671 medium |
| Official languages | |
| Indigenous minority languages | Aimaqi; Bartangi; Bukhori; Ishkashimi; Khufi; Kyrgyz; Oroshani; Parya; Rushani; Sanglechi; Shughni; Uzbek; Uyghur; Wakhi; Yaghnobi; Yazgulyam |
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Gorno-Badakhshan, officially the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in eastern Tajikistan, in the Pamir Mountains. It makes up nearly forty-five percent of the country's land area but only two percent of its population.