Hamadoni District

Hamadoni District
Hamadoni District ; Tajik: Ноҳияи Ҳамадони
	Coordinates: 37°39′24″N 69°37′45″E
Region	Khatlon Region
Capital	Moskovskiy
Area
• Total	500 km2 (200 sq mi)
Population (2020)
• Total	148,800
• Density	300/km2 (770/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+5

Hamadoni District (Tajik: Ноҳияи Ҳамадони, Persian: همدانی‎) is a district in the south-east of Khatlon Region of Tajikistan, located south of Kulob and stretching along a section of the Panj on the border with Afghanistan. Between 1950 and 2004 it was called Moskovskiy District,[1] then renamed in honor of Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, a 14th-century Persia Great Islamic preacher, traveller, poet, and scholar who preached Islam in different parts of world, and is buried in Khatlon.

The district capital is Moskovskiy or Moskva (Tajik: Маскав).[2] The population of the district is 148,800 (January 2020 estimate).[3]

Administrative divisions

The district has an area of about 500 km² (200 sq mi) and is divided administratively into one town and seven jamoats.[4] They are as follows:[5]

Jamoat	Population (Jan. 2015)[5]
Moskovskiy (town)	22,500[6]
Chubek	18,490
Dashtigulo	19,331
Mehnatobod	21,816
Panjob	10,418
Panjrud	13,092
Qahramon	18,294
Turdiev	10,385

References

Moskovskiy district renamed Hamadoni district Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, 2004 (in Russian)
Republic of Tajikistan, map showing administrative division as of January 1, 2004, "Tojikkoinot" Cartographic Press, Dushanbe
"Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2020" (PDF) (in Russian). Statistics office of Tajikistan. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
"Regions of the Republic of Tajikistan 2017" (PDF) (in Russian). Statistics office of Tajikistan. pp. 15–21. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
Jamoat-level basic indicators, United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 9 October 2020
"Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2015" (PDF) (in Russian). Statistics office of Tajikistan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2015.

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[1] Moskovskiy district renamed Hamadoni district Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, 2004 (in Russian)

[map-2] Republic of Tajikistan, map showing administrative division as of January 1, 2004, "Tojikkoinot" Cartographic Press, Dushanbe

[pop2020-3] "Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2020" (PDF) (in Russian). Statistics office of Tajikistan. Retrieved 9 October 2020.

[4] "Regions of the Republic of Tajikistan 2017" (PDF) (in Russian). Statistics office of Tajikistan. pp. 15–21. Retrieved 12 October 2020.

[jambi-5] Jamoat-level basic indicators, United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 9 October 2020

[pop2015-6] "Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2015" (PDF) (in Russian). Statistics office of Tajikistan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2015.