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ID: 7016973
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016973
Record Type:
administrative
Khorugh (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 32 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.5333
decimal degrees
Long: 071 32 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 71.5333
decimal degrees
Note:
Khorog is located in south-central Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan, on the Gunt River. The city was once two separate villages, and industrialization has brought factories and a hydroelectric station.
Names:
Khorugh
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
preferred local spelling of the place since 1999
Khorog
(
C
,
V
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Chorog
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Tojikiston
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kǔhistoni Badakhshon
(autonomous province) (
P
)
................
Khorugh
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Chorog..........
[
VP
]
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-36
Khorog..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 841
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 16 August 2004
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
plate 43
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
100
Khorugh..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Britannica Book of the Year (1999)
720
.................
CIA, World Fact Book (1996)
accessed 03/18/99
.................
Russia, National Geographic (1993)
map supplement
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1999)
720
..................
CIA, World Fact Book (1996)
accessed 03/18/99
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 841
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 16 August 2004
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-36
..................
Russia, National Geographic (1993)
map supplement
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
plate 43
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
100
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 16 August 2004
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