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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Top destinations: Khorugh and Karakul.

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is a city in the Pamirs of .

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is a small village on the Pamir Highway surrounded by a large crater lake.

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is a town in the Pamirs of .

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Ishkashim and Ali Chur.

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Ishkoshim, also , is a village and a jamoat in south-east .

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Alichur is a jamoat and village in , Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, .

Pamirs

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

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