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Pamirs

The Pamir mountains, or Pamirs or Pamir Knot, is a large region of high ground at the junction of several other mountain ranges of which the best-known is the .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Khorugh and Karakul.

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is a city in the Pamirs 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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is a small village on the Pamir Highway surrounded by a large crater lake. It sits on a desolate high plain. If you are coming from beware of possible altitude sickness.

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is a town in the Pamirs of . It is on the Pamir Highway, 311 km from Khorog and 417 km from Osh. is a very remote and fairly hard-to-access town in eastern Tajikistan, deep inside a mountainous area.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Ishkashim and Ali Chur.

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Ishkoshim, also , is a village and a jamoat in south-east . It is the seat of in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region.

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Alichur is a jamoat and village in , Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, . The population of the jamoat is 2,422. The name of the village means Ali's curse and is reputed to have been spoken by the prophet's son-in-law Ali on a journey through the area, on account of the harsh climate and penetrating winds there.

Pamirs

Latitude of center
38.9308° or 38° 55′ 51″ north
Longitude of center
72.0339° or 72° 2′ 2″ east
Elevation
4,736 metres (15,538 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2518786431
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­mountain_range
Geo­Names ID
1131187
Wiki­data ID
Q161750
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pamirs” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pamir”
  • Arabic: “جبال بامير”
  • Armenian: “Պամիր”
  • Assamese: “পামিৰ পৰ্বতমালা”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pamir dağları”
  • Balinese: “Pagunungan Pamir”
  • Bashkir: “Памир”
  • Basque: “Pamir mendiak”
  • Basque: “Pamir”
  • Belarusian: “Памір (горная сыстэма)”
  • Belarusian: “Памір”
  • Bengali: “পামির পর্বতমালা”
  • Bosnian: “Pamir”
  • Bosnian: “Pamirske planine”
  • Breton: “Pamir”
  • Bulgarian: “Памир”
  • Catalan: “Muntanyes del Pamir”
  • Catalan: “Muntanyes Pamir”
  • Catalan: “Pamir”
  • Cebuano: “Pamirs”
  • Central Bikol: “Kabukidan kan Pamir”
  • Central Kurdish: “زنجیرەچیای پامیر”
  • Chinese: “帕米尔”
  • Chinese: “帕米尔山脉”
  • Chinese: “帕米尔高原”
  • Chinese: “帕米爾高原”
  • Chinese: “葱岭”
  • Chinese: “蔥嶺”
  • Chuvash: “Памир”
  • Croatian: “Pamir”
  • Czech: “Pamir”
  • Czech: “Pamír”
  • Danish: “Pamir”
  • Dutch: “Pamir”
  • Dutch: “Pamirgebergte”
  • Esperanto: “Pamir”
  • Esperanto: “Pamiraj montoj”
  • Esperanto: “Pamiro”
  • Estonian: “Pamiir”
  • Estonian: “Pamiiri mäestik”
  • Finnish: “Congling”
  • Finnish: “Pamir”
  • French: “Chaîne du Pamir”
  • French: “Massif du Pamir”
  • French: “Pamir”
  • French: “Parapomisus”
  • Georgian: “ევროპული მარშრუტი E60”
  • Georgian: “პამირი”
  • German: “Pamir-Gebirge”
  • German: “Pamir”
  • German: “Pamirgebirge”
  • Greek: “Παμίρ”
  • Hebrew: “הרי פמיר”
  • Hebrew: “פמיר”
  • Hebrew: “רמת פמיר”
  • Hindi: “पामीर की गाँठ”
  • Hindi: “पामीर पर्वत”
  • Hindi: “पामीर पर्वतमाला”
  • Hindi: “पामीर पर्वतों”
  • Hindi: “सिलसिला कोह पामीर”
  • Hindi: “सिलसिला कोहे नमीर”
  • Hindi: “सिलसिला कोहे पामीर”
  • Hungarian: “Pamír”
  • Indonesian: “Pegunungan Pamir”
  • Interlingue: “Pamir”
  • Italian: “Altopiano del Pamir”
  • Italian: “Pamir”
  • Japanese: “パミール山脈”
  • Japanese: “パミール高原”
  • Japanese: “葱嶺”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Pamir”
  • Kazakh: “Pamïr”
  • Kazakh: “Памир”
  • Kazakh: “ПАМИР”
  • Kazakh: “پامىير”
  • Kirghiz: “Памир тоолору”
  • Kirghiz: “Памир”
  • Korean: “빠미르고원”
  • Korean: “파미르 고원”
  • Korean: “파미르”
  • Korean: “파미르고원”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayên Pamîrê”
  • Ladin: “Crëps de Pamir”
  • Ladin: “Pamir”
  • Latin: “Pamir”
  • Latvian: “Pamira kalni”
  • Latvian: “Pamirs”
  • Literary Chinese: “帕米爾高原”
  • Literary Chinese: “蔥嶺”
  • Lithuanian: “Pamyras”
  • Lithuanian: “Pamyro kalnai”
  • Macedonian: “Памир”
  • Malay: “Pergunungan Pamir”
  • Malayalam: “Pamir Mountains”
  • Malayalam: “പാമിർ പർവ്വതനിര”
  • Malayalam: “പാമിർ മലനിരകൾ”
  • Malayalam: “പാമിർ”
  • Malayalam: “പാമീർ പർവതനിരകൾ”
  • Malayalam: “പാമീർ”
  • Mongolian: “Памирын нуруу”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pamir-fjellene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pamir”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pamirfjellene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pamir”
  • Norwegian: “Pamir”
  • Oriya: “ପାମୀର ପର୍ବତମାଳା”
  • Oriya: “ପାମୀର”
  • Ossetian: “Памир”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਾਮੀਰ ਪਹਾੜ”
  • Persian: “پامیر خورد”
  • Persian: “پامیر کلان”
  • Persian: “پامیر”
  • Persian: “فلات پامیر”
  • Persian: “کوه‌های پامیر”
  • Persian: “کوههای پامیر”
  • Polish: “Pamir”
  • Portuguese: “Cordilheira de Pamir”
  • Portuguese: “Cordilheira do Pamir”
  • Portuguese: “Cordilheira Pamir”
  • Portuguese: “Montanhas Pamir”
  • Portuguese: “Montes pamir”
  • Portuguese: “Pamir”
  • Pushto: “پامير”
  • Pushto: “پامیر”
  • Romanian: “Munții Pamir”
  • Romanian: “Pamir”
  • Romanian: “Pamiri”
  • Romanian: “Platoul Pamir”
  • Russian: “Памир”
  • Scots: “Pamir Muntains”
  • Serbian: “Pamir”
  • Serbian: “Памир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pamir”
  • Sindhi: “پامير”
  • Slovak: “Pamír”
  • Slovenian: “Pamir”
  • Spanish: “Cordillera de Pamir”
  • Spanish: “Cordillera del Pamir”
  • Spanish: “Meseta del Pamir”
  • Spanish: “Montanas del Pamir”
  • Spanish: “Montañas del Pamir”
  • Spanish: “Montanas Pamir”
  • Spanish: “Montañas Pamir”
  • Spanish: “Nudo del Pamir”
  • Spanish: “Pamir”
  • Swedish: “Pamir”
  • Tajik: “Pomir”
  • Tajik: “Помир”
  • Tamil: “பாமிர் மலைகள்”
  • Tatar: “Памир”
  • Thai: “เทือกเขาปามีร์”
  • Turkish: “Pamir Dağları”
  • Turkish: “Pamir”
  • Turkish: “Pamirler”
  • Uighur: “پامىر ئېگىزلىكى”
  • Ukrainian: “Памір”
  • Urdu: “پامیر”
  • Urdu: “سلسلہ کوہ پامیر”
  • Uzbek: “Pomir”
  • Venetian: “Pamir”
  • Vietnamese: “Dãy núi Pamir”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kabubkiran Pamir”
  • Welsh: “Mynyddoedd Pamir”
  • Welsh: “Mynyddoedd y Pamir”
  • Welsh: “Pamir”
  • Welsh: “Y Pamir”
  • Western Panjabi: “پامیر پہاڑی سلسلہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “پامیر”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕米尔高原”
  • Wu Chinese: “蔥嶺”
  • Yue Chinese: “帕米爾高原”
  • Yue Chinese: “蔥嶺”

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