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Well, I think that it will be a good idea to start to write about each district of the Tajikistan Republic, maybe, for the next few days. Well, yesterday I wrote about Murghab District which is situated in the eastern part of the Tajikistan Republic near China border, and is included into Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous District of Province. Well, of course, it’s the most underpopulated district of the whole Tajikistan Republic, and its population is only about 18 000 people. As you remember, the administrative centre of Murghab District is a town with the same name, so, it is Murghab town with population of only 5 000 residents, situated very near to Chinese border. But, maybe, it’s also necessary to write about some other districts which are also included in Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Region. As you know, this Province consists of six districts, and maybe it will be quite interesting to write about one district which is situated near Afghanistan border, and it is known as Darvoz district. Well, the area of Darvoz District is about 3 thousand km², this, of course, is not so big area of this district, it may be said that it is very small, well, the population of this district (Davroz district) is about 25 000 residents, but information is from 2008. There is a town, and the location place of this town is near Afghanistan border, this town is called Kalaikhum. So, this town, or, to tell the truth, village is the administrative capital of Darvoz district, and Kalaikhum village has population of about 2 thousand residents. As it also was written in the most of information sources, Pamir Mountains are hanging out over this village; and it is situated at an altitude of 1 thousand 2 hundred meters above sea level. It should be a very high area, as well most of the Tajikistan cities are situated in high mountainous areas, but, of course, elevation of Kalaikhum town above sea level in lower than of Murghab town which is situated at 3 thousand and maybe 5 hundred meters above sea level; so this Murghab town is town with the most high-elevation. But, of course, if you, for example, would like to know more about Kalaikhum village, so the most important that one need to know, is that this administrative town of Davroz district is a connection town between other bigger towns, such as Kulob and, as you already know, Khorugh. So, Kalaikhum village is situated 168 km from Kulob city and 225 km from Khorugh city. But, if, for example, you would like to know, how many km are from Kalaikhum town to the capital of the Tajikistan Republic – Dushanbe city, then the distance is about 365 km. Well, perhaps, it’s not a big number of km, but these roads in Tajikistan, of course, are not of so high and good quality, and quite often most of roads and highways are unpaved. This, of course, means that there is not rather safe to use or drive on those highways, and maybe it would take more time as it had to be. So, perhaps, I don’t know exactly, about what facts I need to write, but it could be very interesting also to know that most of cities situated in district divisions of the Tajikistan Republic have rather small population, and maybe for people living in these areas or villages in very isolated communities it is very difficult to go to other places or towns what can be very problematic, and, maybe, there is no other alternative but only stay in these small towns and just try to believe that something will change in future. For me, it was very interesting and, of course, very sad to see and to read about this town, you know, that Murghab town where only about 5 thousand inhabitants are living, but you know, there are so poor places, if you, perhaps, want to believe it, looking at pictures of this town, I don’t know how can they live in these conditions in such a deep poverty; actually there are not houses, in the literal sense of the word, but only some habitations, not even places, but some constructions in which, to my opinion, it is very hard to live during winter season, and also maybe in summer; it is true, that during the whole year the weather in Murghab is quite cold, may be even extremely cold, and, of course, it is very hard to live in such conditions. So maybe, and as far as possible, the water, for hygiene and the most necessary things for living, is taken from rivers or, maybe, lakes. Well, just for the interest, there was some moments when I wanted to see, what exactly the weather in Murghab town was, and thus, in early morning just about at four o’clock a.m. it was -9° C, that is, nine degrees below zero, and, of course, the temperature was very low, if it was in mid-May. But, of course, this temperature is realistic only for the night time or early mornings, and, perhaps in daytime, so, for example, at three o’clock in the afternoon the temperature is about eight degrees above zero, to be brief, the daytime temperature, at 3 p.m. is about +8° C. So, I guess, that the weather temperature is quite different at night and day.

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Well, today I would like to say some words about population of four main regions of Tajikistan; in Khatlon Region with capital Qurghonteppa live about 2.5 million people according to 2010 census. And in Sughd Region live 2.2 million people; as you know, the main city of the administrative capital of this Region is Khujand city. Well, probably, the third province or velayat in the Tajikistan Republic is Region of Republican Subordination with the capital Dushanbe whose population amounts to 1.7 million residents, while the most underpopulated area in the Tajikistan Republic is Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Region with Khorugh as the capital, well, in this province only 206 000 people are living, according to information of 2010. But, if, for example, you want to know what the population situation in these areas is, for the last year, that is, for 2014, then there is, probably, some growth and rise in all four administrative regions of the Tajikistan Republic. Well, but each velayat or region include also districts division. And the whole territory of area of the Tajikistan Republic consists of four regions (provinces / velayats) and of 58 districts. And, for example, if you love one town very much which is situated near Afghanistan border and is known as Ishkashim, the population of that small city is about 30 000 residents according to 2010.

The Tajikistan Republic:

– Sughd Region

– Region of Republican Subordination

– Khatlon Region

– Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Region

Each Region includes districts, and there are 58 districts in Tajikistan.