Bartang
The Bartang is a river of Central Asia, and is a tributary to the Panj which itself is a tributary to the Amu Darya. In its middle and upper reaches, it is respectively known as the Murghab and Aksu; it flows through the Wakhan in Afghanistan, then through the Rushon District of the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region, Tajikistan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river
- Also known as: “Aksu River”, “Bartang River”, and “Murghab River”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rushon.
Rushon
Town
Rushon is a town and the seat of Rushon District of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in southeastern Tajikistan. The town with aglomeration has a total population of 6,577. Rushon is situated 3 km northwest of Bartang.
Bartang
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bartang” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر برتنغ”
- Armenian: “Բարտանգ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Bartang”
- Azerbaijani: “Bartanq çayı”
- Bulgarian: “Бартанг”
- Catalan: “Bartang”
- Catalan: “Murghab”
- Catalan: “Rius Aksu (Tadjikistan)”
- Cebuano: “Bartang”
- Cebuano: “Murghob”
- Chinese: “巴爾坦格河”
- Chinese: “穆尔加布河”
- Croatian: “Bartang”
- Czech: “Bartang”
- Czech: “Oksu”
- Dutch: “Bartang River”
- Dutch: “Bartang”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر بارتانچ”
- Estonian: “Bartang”
- Estonian: “Bartangi jõgi”
- Estonian: “Murgabi jõgi”
- Estonian: “Oksu jõgi”
- Estonian: “Oksu”
- Finnish: “Bartang”
- French: “Bartang”
- Georgian: “ბართანგი”
- German: “Bartang”
- Greek: “Μπαρτάνγκ”
- Irish: “Abhainn Bartang”
- Italian: “Bartang”
- Italian: “Fiume Murghab”
- Japanese: “バルタング川”
- Japanese: “バルタン川”
- Japanese: “ムルガーブ川 (タジキスタン)”
- Lithuanian: “Bartangas”
- Lithuanian: “Oksu”
- Malayalam: “ബർതാങ് നദി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aksu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bartang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Murghab”
- Norwegian: “Bartang”
- Ossetian: “Бартанг”
- Persian: “رود برتنگ”
- Russian: “Аксу”
- Russian: “Бартанг”
- Russian: “Мургаб”
- Russian: “Оксу”
- Spanish: “Bartang”
- Spanish: “Rio Bartang”
- Spanish: “Río Bartang”
- Tajik: “Bartang”
- Tajik: “Бартанг”
- Ukrainian: “Бартанг”
- Ukrainian: “Мургаб (притока П’янджу)”
- Ukrainian: “Мургаб (річка в Таджикистані)”
- Uzbek: “Bartang”
- Welsh: “Afon Bartang”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bartang”. Photo: Hausibek, CC BY-SA 3.0.