Guliston
Guliston is a city in north-western Tajikistan. It is located in Sughd Region, at the western tip of the Kayrakkum Reservoir. Guliston is a city of regional subordination, and is not part of a district.- Type: City with 16,700 residents
- Description: human settlement in Tajikistan
- Also known as: “Gulistan”, “Guliston, Sughd”, “Kaikak Kum”, “Kayrakum”, “Khodzhent”, “Qayraqqum”, and “Қайроққум”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kairakkum hydro power plant.
Kairakkum hydro power plant
Power station
Photo: Шухрат Саъдиев, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Kayrakkum Dam, also spelt variously as Kayrakum, Kairakum, Qayraqqum or Qayroqqum, is an embankment dam on the Syr Darya River near the town of Kayrakkum in Sughd Province, Tajikistan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Isfisor and Ghafurov.
Isfisor
Village
Isfisor is a village and jamoat in north-west Tajikistan. It is located in Ghafurov District in Sughd Region. The jamoat has a total population of 39,590. It consists of 6 villages, including Isfisor and Dashti Amin.
Ghafurov
Town
Ghafurov is a town in Ghafurov district, Sughd Region, Tajikistan. It has a population of 20,600, up from 18,900 in the 1989 census. The town was created in 1965, and until 1978 had the name Sovietabad. Ghafurov is situated 8 km southwest of Guliston.
Undzhi
Village
Undzhi or Unji is a village and jamoat in north-west Tajikistan. It is located in Ghafurov District in Sughd Region. The jamoat has a total population of 45,230. Undzhi is situated 8 km west of Guliston.
Guliston
- Categories: human settlement, city or town, and locality
- Location: Sughd Region, Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
40.26701° or 40° 16′ 1″ northLongitude
69.79806° or 69° 47′ 53″ eastPopulation
16,700Elevation
362 metres (1,188 feet)Open location code
8JGF7Q8X+R6OpenStreetMap ID
node 2381990033OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1514883Wikidata ID
Q615274
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Guliston” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جوليستون، صغد”
- Arabic: “جوليستون”
- Bulgarian: “Гулистон”
- Bulgarian: “Кайраккум”
- Cebuano: “Guliston”
- Cebuano: “Qayroqqum”
- Chinese: “古利斯通”
- Czech: “Guliston”
- Czech: “Kajrakkum”
- Dutch: “Qayraqqum”
- Estonian: “Guliston”
- Estonian: “Hodžent”
- Estonian: “Kayrakkum”
- Estonian: “Qayroqqum”
- Finnish: “Guliston”
- French: “Guliston”
- French: “Kaïrakkoum”
- German: “Guliston”
- German: “Kairakkum”
- Greek: “Γκουλιστάν, Σουγντ”
- Greek: “Καϋρακκούμ”
- Irish: “Guliston”
- Japanese: “グリストン”
- Kazakh: “Гүлістан (Тәжікстан)”
- Kazakh: “Гүлістан”
- Lithuanian: “Gulistonas”
- Lithuanian: “Kairakumas”
- Mingrelian: “გულისტანი”
- Ossetian: “Гулистон”
- Persian: “قیراقوم”
- Persian: “گلستان”
- Polish: “Guliston”
- Polish: “Kajrakkum”
- Pushto: “قيراقوم”
- Russian: “Гулистан”
- Russian: “Гулистон”
- Tajik: “Гулистон”
- Tatar: “Гөлстан”
- Ukrainian: “Ґулістон”
- Ukrainian: “Кайраккум”
- Upper Sorbian: “Guliston”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kajrakkum”
- Urdu: “قیراقوم”
- Uzbek: “Guliston”
- Uzbek: “Qayroqqum”
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