Norak
Norak is a city in the Khatlon Region of Tajikistan. It is situated on the river Vakhsh, 885 m above sea level, and is 70 km southeast of Dushanbe, the capital.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 18,100 residents
- Description: town in Tajikistan
- Also known as: “Nurak” and “Nurek”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nurek Dam.
Nurek Dam
Dam
Photo: Ibrahimjon, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Nurek Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan. Its primary purpose is hydroelectric power generation and its power station has an installed capacity of 3,015 MW. Nurek Dam is situated 3 km southeast of Norak.
Norak
- Categories: city, residential area, and locality
- Location: Khatlon, Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.39119° or 38° 23′ 28″ northLongitude
69.32389° or 69° 19′ 26″ eastPopulation
18,100Elevation
660 metres (2,165 feet)United Nations Location Code
TJ NUKOpen location code
8JCF98RF+FHOpenStreetMap ID
way 242857780OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1220905Wikidata ID
Q1018201
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Norak” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نارك”
- Armenian: “Նուրեկ”
- Asturian: “Norak”
- Azerbaijani: “Nurek”
- Belarusian: “Нурэк”
- Bulgarian: “Нурек”
- Cebuano: “Norak”
- Chinese: “努雷克”
- Chinese: “諾拉克”
- Czech: “Norak”
- Dutch: “Nurak”
- Esperanto: “Norak”
- Esperanto: “Norek”
- Estonian: “Norak”
- Estonian: “Nurek”
- Finnish: “Norak”
- Finnish: “Nurak”
- Finnish: “Nurek”
- French: “Nourek”
- German: “Norak”
- German: “Nurek”
- Hungarian: “Norak”
- Hungarian: “Nurek”
- Italian: “Norak”
- Italian: “Nurak”
- Japanese: “ヌレーク”
- Japanese: “ヌレク”
- Japanese: “ノラーク”
- Kazakh: “Нұрек”
- Kirghiz: “Нурек”
- Korean: “누레크”
- Lithuanian: “Nurekas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nurak”
- Norwegian: “Nurak”
- Ossetian: “Нурек”
- Persian: “نارک”
- Persian: “نارَک”
- Polish: “Norak”
- Polish: “Nurek”
- Pushto: “نورک”
- Russian: “Нурек”
- Slovak: “Norak”
- Tajik: “Norak”
- Tajik: “Норак”
- Tatar: “Нарәк”
- Tatar: “Нурәк”
- Ukrainian: “Нурек”
- Upper Sorbian: “Norak”
- Upper Sorbian: “Nurek”
- Urdu: “نورک”
- Uzbek: “Norak”
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