Gorno-Badakhshan
Gorno-Badakhshan, officially the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in eastern Tajikistan, in the Pamir Mountains. It makes up nearly forty-five percent of the country's land area but only two percent of its population.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: region of Tajikistan with 227,000 residents
- Description: autonomous region of Tajikistan
- Also known as: “Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region”, “GBAO”, “Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region”, “Gorno-Badakhshanskaya AO”, “Gorno-Badakhshanskaya Avtonomnaya Oblast’”, “Kuhistani Badakhshan Autonomous Region”, “Kŭhistoni Badakhshon”, “Viloyati Avtonomii Badakhshoni Kŭhy”, and “Кӯҳистони Бадахшон”
- Neighbors: Khatlon and Xinjiang
Gorno-Badakhshan
- Location: Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Gorno-Badakhshan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جورنو”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة بدخشان الجبلية ذاتية الحكم”
- Arabic: “ولاية بدخشان الجبلية ذاتية الحكم”
- Armenian: “Լեռնային Բադախշանի ինքնավար մարզ”
- Azerbaijani: “Dağlıq Bədəxşan Muxtar Vilayəti”
- Basque: “Badakhxan Garaiko Probintzia Autonomoa”
- Belarusian: “Горна-Бадахшанская аўтаномная вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Горна-Бадахшанская аўтаномная вобласьць”
- Belarusian: “Горна-Бадахшанская вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Горны Бадахшан”
- Bengali: “গর্নো-বাদাখশন স্বায়ত্তশাসিত প্রদেশ”
- Breton: “OE Gorno-Badac’hchan”
- Bulgarian: “Горни Бадахшан”
- Bulgarian: “Горнобадахшанска автономна област”
- Bulgarian: “Планински Бадахшан”
- Catalan: “Gorno-Badakhshan”
- Catalan: “Gorno-Badakhxan”
- Catalan: “Regió Autònoma de Gorno-Badakhshan”
- Cebuano: “Viloyati Mukhtori Kŭhistoni Badakhshon”
- Chechen: “Лам-Бадахшанан автономин регион”
- Chinese: “山地巴达赫尚自治州”
- Chinese: “山地巴達赫尚自治州”
- Chinese: “戈尔诺-巴达赫尚自治州”
- Chinese: “戈爾諾-巴達赫尚”
- Chuvash: “Туçи Бадахшан”
- Czech: “Gorno-Badachšán”
- Czech: “Horní Badachšán”
- Czech: “Horský Badachšán”
- Danish: “Gorno-Badakhsjan”
- Dutch: “Gorno-Badachsjan”
- Esperanto: “Monta Badaĥŝano”
- Estonian: “Mägi-Badahšan”
- Finnish: “Vuoristo-Badahšanin autonominen alue”
- Finnish: “Vuoristo-Badakhšanin autonominen alue”
- French: “Gorno-Badakhshan”
- French: “Haut-Badakhchan”
- French: “Haut-Badakhshan”
- Galician: “Provincia Autónoma de Gorno Badaghxán”
- Galician: “Provincia Autónoma do Badaghxán Montañoso”
- Georgian: “მთიანი ბადახშანის ავტონომიური ოლქი”
- German: “Berg-Badachschan”
- German: “TJ-GB”
- Greek: “Αυτόνομη επαρχία Γκόρνο-Μπανταχσάν”
- Gujarati: “ગોર્નો-બડખશન ઔટોનોમસ પ્રાંત”
- Hebrew: “מחוז גורנו-בדחשאן”
- Hindi: “कूहिस्तोनी-बदख़्शान मुख़्तोर विलोयत”
- Hindi: “कूहिस्तोनी-बदख़्शान स्वशासित प्रांत”
- Hindi: “कूहिस्तोनी-बदख़्शान स्वशासित प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “कोहिस्तोनी-बदख़्शान स्वशासित प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “गोर्नो-बदखाशान स्वायत्त प्रांत”
- Hindi: “गोर्नो-बदख़्शान मुख़्तोर विलोयत”
- Indonesian: “Oblast Otonomi Gorno-Badakhshan”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Otonom Gorno-Badakhshan”
- Interlingue: “Gorno-Badakhsan”
- Italian: “Badachšan”
- Italian: “Gorno-Badachšan”
- Italian: “Gorno-Badakhshan”
- Italian: “provincia Autonoma di Gorno-Badachšan”
- Italian: “Provincia Autonoma di Gorno-Badachšan”
- Italian: “Regione Autonoma di Gorno-Badachshan”
- Japanese: “ゴルノ・バダフシャン自治州”
- Japanese: “ゴルノ＝バダフシャン自治州”
- Japanese: “ゴルノバダフシャン自治州”
- Kannada: “ಗೊರ್ನೊ-ಬದ್ಖ್ಶಾನ್ ಸ್ವಾಯತ್ತ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Tawli-Badaxshan avtonom wa’layati”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Tawlı-Badaxshan avtonomiyalıq wálayatı”
- Kazakh: “Бадахшан Таулы Автономиялы облысы”
- Kazakh: “Бадахшан”
- Kazakh: “ГБАО”
- Kazakh: “Горно-Бадахшан”
- Kazakh: “Кухистандық Бадахшан Автономиялы облысы”
- Kazakh: “Таулы Бадахшан автономиялы облысы”
- Kazakh: “Таулы Бадахшан аймағы”
- Kazakh: “Таулы Бадахшан”
- Kirghiz: “Тоолуу-Бадахшан автономиялуу облусу”
- Korean: “고르노바다크샨”
- Korean: “고르노바다흐샨 자치주”
- Latin: “Regio autonoma Badachschania Montana”
- Latvian: “Kalnu Badahšāna”
- Latvian: “Kalnu Badahšānas autonomais vilojats”
- Lithuanian: “Kalnų Badachšanas”
- Lithuanian: “Kalnų Badachšano autonominė provincija”
- Malay: “Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province”
- Malay: “Provinsi Berautonomi Gorno-Badakhshan”
- Marathi: “गोर्नो-बदखशन स्वायत्त प्रांत”
- Mingrelian: “გვალამი ბადახშანიშ ავტონომიური ოლქი”
- Mongolian: “Горно-Бадахшан”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gorno-Badakhshan autonome region”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gorno-Badakhshan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuhistoni Badakhshon autonome provins”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuhistoni Badakhshon”
- Norwegian: “Kuhistoni Badakhshon autonome provins”
- Ossetian: “Хæххон Бадахшаны автономон облæст”
- Persian: “استان خودمختار کوهستان بدخشان”
- Persian: “استان خودمختار کوهستانی بدخشان”
- Persian: “استان کوهستان بدخشان”
- Persian: “منطقه خودمختار بدخشان کوهستانی”
- Persian: “منطقه خودمختار کوهستان بدخشان”
- Persian: “ولایت بدخشان”
- Persian: “ولایت خود مختار کوهستان بدخشان”
- Persian: “ولایت خودمختار بدخشان تاجیکستان”
- Persian: “ولایت خودمختار کوهستان بدخشان”
- Persian: “ولایت مختار کوهستان بدخشان”
- Polish: “Górnobadachszański Okręg Autonomiczny”
- Polish: “Górski Badachszan”
- Polish: “Górskobadachszański Okręg Autonomiczny”
- Polish: “Górskobadachszański Wilajet Autonomiczny”
- Polish: “Obwód górnobadachszański”
- Portuguese: “Gorno-Badakhshan”
- Portuguese: “Gorno-Badaquexão”
- Portuguese: “Província Autônoma de Gorno-Badakhshan”
- Pushto: “بدخشان ګورنو خپلواک ولايت”
- Pushto: “ګورنو بدخشان”
- Romanian: “Gorno-Badahșan”
- Russian: “Бадахшан”
- Russian: “ГБАО”
- Russian: “Горно-Бадахшанская автономная область”
- Russian: “Горно-Бадахшанская АО”
- Russian: “Горно-Бадахшанская область”
- Russian: “Горный Бадахшан”
- Serbian: “Gorno-Badahšan”
- Serbian: “Горно-Бадакшан Аутономни Регион”
- Serbian: “Горно-Бадахшан”
- Serbian: “Горно-Бадахшанска област”
- Sinhala: “ගොර්නෝ බඩක්ශාන් ස්වාධීන පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Gorno-Badahšan”
- Slovenian: “Gorski Badahšan”
- Slovenian: “Kuhistoni-Badakhshon”
- Slovenian: “Regija Gorno-Badahšan”
- Slovenian: “TJ-GB”
- Spanish: “Alto Badajshan”
- Spanish: “Alto Badajshán”
- Spanish: “Gorno Badajshan”
- Spanish: “Gorno Badakhshan”
- Spanish: “Gorno-Badakhshan”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Alto Badajshan”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Alto Badajshán”
- Swedish: “Gorno-Badachsjan”
- Swedish: “Gorno-Badakhshan”
- Tagalog: “Awtonomong Rehiyon ng Gorno-Badakhshan”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Muxtori Kūhistoni Badaxşon”
- Tajik: “Viloyati Mukhtori Kuhistoni Badakhshon”
- Tajik: “Бадахшон”
- Tajik: “Бадахшони Тоҷикистон”
- Tajik: “В.М.К.Б”
- Tajik: “Ванҷ”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Бадахшон”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Бадахшони Тоҷикистон”
- Tajik: “Вилояти мухтори куҳистони Бадахшон”
- Tajik: “Вилояти мухтори Кӯҳистони Бадахшон”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Мухтори Кӯҳистони Бадахшон”
- Tajik: “ВМКБ”
- Tajik: “Кӯҳистони-Бадахшон”
- Tamil: “கோருனோ-பதகுசான் தன்னாட்சி மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “கோர்னோ-படாட்சன் தன்னாட்சி மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Таулы Бәдәхшан автономияле вилаяте”
- Telugu: “గార్నో-బడాక్షన్ అటానమస్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “గార్నో-బడాక్షన్ అటానమస్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “แคว้นปกครองตนเองเคอฮิสทอนีบาดัฆชอน”
- Turkish: “Dağlık Badahşan”
- Turkish: “Dağlık Bedehşan”
- Turkish: “Gorno-Bedehşan”
- Uighur: “تاغلىق باداخشان ئاپتونوم ۋىلايىتى”
- Ukrainian: “Гірський Бадахшан”
- Ukrainian: “Горний Бадахшан”
- Ukrainian: “Горно-Бадахшанська автономна область”
- Ukrainian: “Мухтарний вілоят Кухістані Бадахшан”
- Urdu: “گورنو بدخشاں خود مختار صوبہ”
- Uzbek: “Togʻli-Badaxshon muxtor viloyati”
- Vietnamese: “Gorno-Badakhshan”
- Vietnamese: “Kohistan Badakhshan”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh tự trị Gorno-Badakhshan”
- Western Armenian: “Լեռնային Պատախշանի ինքնավար մարզ”
- Western Panjabi: “کوہستان بدخشان خودمختار صوبہ”
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