Hisor
Hisor is a city in Tajikistan, 15 km west of Dushanbe. It is noted for a historical fortress. It is well worth a short day-trip from Dushanbe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 24,000 residents
- Description: city in Tajikistan
- Also known as: “Hisar”, “Khisor”, and “Staryy Gissar”
Hisor
- Category: city
- Location: Region of Republican Subordination, Karategin, Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
38.5254° or 38° 31′ 31″ northLongitude
68.5526° or 68° 33′ 9″ eastPopulation
24,000Elevation
800 metres (2,625 feet)Open location code
8JCCGHG3+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 252854134
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Hisor” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حصار”
- Armenian: “Հիսար (Տաջիկստան)”
- Armenian: “Հիսար”
- Asturian: “Hisar”
- Azerbaijani: “Hissar”
- Bulgarian: “Хисар”
- Catalan: “Darwaz”
- Catalan: “Derwaz”
- Catalan: “Hişar”
- Catalan: “Hisor”
- Catalan: “Hissor”
- Catalan: “Khurgan”
- Catalan: “Kolab”
- Catalan: “Kulab”
- Catalan: “Roixan”
- Catalan: “Roshan”
- Catalan: “Shuman”
- Catalan: “Wattan”
- Catalan: “Xuman”
- Cebuano: “Hisor”
- Central Kurdish: “حیسار، تاجیکستان”
- Chinese: “吉薩爾”
- Chinese: “希薩爾”
- Czech: “Chisor”
- Dutch: “Hisor”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصار”
- Esperanto: “Gisaro”
- Esperanto: “Hisoro”
- Estonian: “Hisor”
- Finnish: “Hisor”
- French: “Hisor”
- German: “Chisor”
- German: “Hissor”
- Hungarian: “Hiszor”
- Italian: “Hisor”
- Japanese: “ギッサール”
- Korean: “히소르”
- Lithuanian: “Gisaras”
- Mingrelian: “ჰისარი”
- Ossetian: “Гиссар”
- Persian: “حصار”
- Polish: “Hisar”
- Pushto: “حصار، تاجکستان”
- Russian: “Гиссар”
- Slovenian: “Hisar, Tadžikistan”
- Spanish: “Hisor”
- Tajik: “Ҳисор”
- Tatar: “Хисар”
- Ukrainian: “Гісар”
- Upper Sorbian: “Chisor”
- Upper Sorbian: “Gissar”
- Urdu: “حصار، تاجکستان”
- Uzbek: “Hisor (Tojikiston)”
- Uzbek: “Hisor”
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