Khorugh

Khorugh is a city in the of . It sits in a steep river valley surrounded by the Pamir mountains. The nearby river Panj is the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
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  • Type: City with 30,800 residents
  • Description: city in Tajikistan
  • Also known as: “Horok”, “Jorug”, “Khorog”, “Khorogh”, “Khoroug”, “Khorug”, “Хоруг”, “Хорӯғ”, “חורוג‘”, “خارغ”, “호로그”, “호로크”, and “ホローグ”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shiveh.

Village
is a in in north-eastern .

Khorugh

Latitude
37.4909° or 37° 29′ 27″ north
Longitude
71.5489° or 71° 32′ 56″ east
Population
30,800
Elevation
2,089 metres (6,854 feet)
Open location code
8J9HFGRX+9H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 271687522
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1221328
Wiki­data ID
Q467501
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Khorugh” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኮሮግ”
  • Arabic: “جاروغ”
  • Arabic: “خاروغ”
  • Arabic: “خروغ”
  • Armenian: “Խորոգ”
  • Asturian: “Khorugh”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xoroğ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xoroq”
  • Basque: “Khorog”
  • Belarusian: “Харог”
  • Bengali: “খোরুগ”
  • Bulgarian: “Хорог”
  • Catalan: “Khorog”
  • Cebuano: “Khorugh”
  • Chechen: “Хорог”
  • Chinese: “霍罗格”
  • Chinese: “霍羅格”
  • Czech: “Chorog”
  • Danish: “Khorugh”
  • Dutch: “Choroeg”
  • Dutch: “Choroegh”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جاروج”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥorug”
  • Estonian: “Horug”
  • Finnish: “Horog”
  • Finnish: “Xoruğ”
  • French: “Khorog”
  • Georgian: “ხოროგი”
  • German: “Chorugh”
  • German: “Khorog”
  • Greek: “Χορούγ”
  • Hausa: “Khorog”
  • Hebrew: “חורוג”
  • Hindi: “खा-रूग”
  • Hindi: “खोरुग”
  • Hindi: “ख़ोरूग़​”
  • Hungarian: “Horug”
  • Indonesian: “Khorog”
  • Indonesian: “Khorugh”
  • Italian: “Choruǧ”
  • Japanese: “ホログ”
  • Javanese: “Khorog”
  • Kazakh: “Хорог”
  • Kirghiz: “Хорог”
  • Korean: “호루그”
  • Latvian: “Horuga”
  • Lithuanian: “Chorogas”
  • Malay: “Khorog”
  • Mingrelian: “ხოროღი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Khorugh”
  • Norwegian: “Khorugh”
  • Oromo: “Khorog”
  • Ossetian: “Хорогъ”
  • Panjabi: “ਖੋਰੁਗ”
  • Panjabi: “ਖ਼ੋਰੂਗ​”
  • Persian: “خاروغ”
  • Persian: “خروغ”
  • Polish: “Chorog”
  • Portuguese: “Khorog”
  • Pushto: “خاروغ”
  • Pushto: “خروغ”
  • Romanian: “Horog”
  • Russian: “Хорог”
  • Serbian: “Хорог”
  • Slovenian: “Horug”
  • Slovenian: “Khorog”
  • Somali: “Khorog”
  • Spanish: “Jorog”
  • Spanish: “Khorog”
  • Spanish: “Khorugh”
  • Swahili: “Khorog”
  • Swedish: “Chorug”
  • Tajik: “Khorugh”
  • Tajik: “Xoruƣ”
  • Tajik: “Хоруғ”
  • Tatar: “Харуг”
  • Tatar: “Хорог”
  • Tumbuka: “Khorog”
  • Turkish: “Horog”
  • Turkish: “Khorog”
  • Uighur: “قورۇق”
  • Ukrainian: “Хорог”
  • Ukrainian: “Хороґ”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Chorug”
  • Urdu: “خاروغ”
  • Urdu: “خروغ”
  • Uzbek: “Xorog”
  • Uzbek: “Xorugʻ”
  • Western Panjabi: “خاروغ”

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