Murghab
Murghab is a town in the Pamirs of Tajikistan. It is on the Pamir Highway, 311 km from Khorog and 417 km from Osh. Murghab is a very remote and fairly hard-to-access town in eastern Tajikistan, deep inside a mountainous area.
- Type: Town with 7,710 residents
- Description: town in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan
- Also known as: “Margab”, “Murghāb”, “Murghābi”, “Murghob”, “Pāmir Post”, “Pamīrski Post”, “Post Pamirskiy”, “Мургаб”, and “Мурғоб”
Murghab
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Gorno-Badakhshan, Pamirs, Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
38.171° or 38° 10′ 15″ north
Longitude
73.9669° or 73° 58′ 1″ east
Population
7,710
Elevation
3,607 metres (11,834 feet)
Open location code
8JCM5XC8+9Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Uzbek—“Murghab” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Murghob”
- Cebuano: “Murghob (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Murghob”
- Central Kurdish: “مورغاب، تاجیکستان”
- Chinese: “穆尔加布”
- Dutch: “Moergab”
- Dutch: “Moerghob”
- Dutch: “Murghab”
- Dutch: “Pamirsky Post”
- Finnish: “Murghab”
- Finnish: “Murğob”
- French: “Murghab”
- German: “Murgab”
- German: “Murghab”
- German: “Murghob”
- Hungarian: “Murghab”
- Hungarian: “Murgob”
- Irish: “Murghab”
- Italian: “Murghab”
- Italian: “Murghob”
- Italian: “Мургаб”
- Italian: “Мурғоб”
- Japanese: “ムルガブ”
- Kazakh: “Мұрғаб”
- Kirghiz: “Мургап”
- Korean: “무르가프”
- Korean: “무르고프”
- Lithuanian: “Murgabas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Murghob”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Murgab”
- Norwegian: “Murghob”
- Ossetian: “Мургъаб”
- Persian: “جماعت مرغاب”
- Persian: “مرغاب”
- Polish: “Moskowski”
- Polish: “Murgob”
- Romanian: “Murghob, Tadjikistan”
- Romanian: “Murghob”
- Russian: “Мургаб”
- Russian: “Мургоб”
- Slovenian: “Murgab”
- Slovenian: “Murghab”
- Spanish: “Murghob”
- Tajik: “Murƣob”
- Tajik: “Мурғоб”
- Turkish: “Murghob”
- Ukrainian: “Мургаб (село)”
- Ukrainian: “Мургаб”
- Urdu: “مرغاب، تاجکستان”
- Uzbek: “Murgʻob (shaharcha)”
- Uzbek: “Murgʻob”
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