Vakhsh
Vakhsh is a city in southwestern Tajikistan. It is the capital of Vakhsh District. The population of the town is 14,900. It is about 100 km from the capital, Dushanbe. It has one of the three Catholic Tajik churches under the Mission sui iuris of Tajikistan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 17,600 residents
- Description: place in Khatlon, Tajikistan
- Also known as: “Vakhsh, Tajikistan”, “Vakhshstroi”, and “Vakhshstroy”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Somoniyon.
Somoniyon
Town
Somoniyon is a town and jamoat in the Khatlon Region of Tajikistan. It is the capital of Kushoniyon District. The population of the town is 8,500. Somoniyon is situated 6 km northwest of Vakhsh.
Vakhsh
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Khatlon, Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.71628° or 37° 42′ 59″ northLongitude
68.83726° or 68° 50′ 14″ eastPopulation
17,600Elevation
431 metres (1,414 feet)Open location code
8J9CPR8P+GWOpenStreetMap ID
node 2503241199OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
1220219Wikidata ID
Q2064329
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Vakhsh” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فخش”
- Arabic: “وخش”
- Belarusian: “Вахш”
- Bulgarian: “Вахш”
- Cebuano: “Vakhsh (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Vakhsh”
- Chinese: “瓦赫什”
- Danish: “Vakhsh”
- Dutch: “Vachsj”
- Dutch: “Vakash”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فخش”
- Esperanto: “Vaĥŝ”
- Estonian: “Vahš”
- Finnish: “Vaxš (taajama)”
- Finnish: “Vaxš”
- French: “Vakhsh”
- French: “Wakhsh”
- German: “Vakhsh”
- German: “Wachsch”
- German: “Wachschstroi”
- Hindi: “वख़्श”
- Irish: “Vakhsh”
- Italian: “Vakhsh”
- Japanese: “ヴァフシュ”
- Kazakh: “Вахш (Тәжікстан)”
- Kazakh: “Вахш”
- Macedonian: “Вахш”
- Persian: “وخش”
- Polish: “Wachsz”
- Pushto: “وخش”
- Russian: “Вахш”
- Russian: “Вахшстрой”
- Swedish: “Vachsj”
- Tajik: “Вахш”
- Urdu: “وخش، تاجکستان”
- Uzbek: “Vaxsh (qishloq)”
- Uzbek: “Vaxsh”
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