Panjakent
Panjakent, also spelled Penjikent, is a city in Tajikistan. It lies at the entrance to Zeravshan Valley, one of Tajikstan's main tourist attractions. Around the modern town and in its museum you will find remains of one of the great cities of the pre-Islamic Sogdian peoples.
- Type: City with 42,600 residents
- Description: city in Tajikistan
- Also known as: “Pandžakentas”, “Panjakant”, “Panjankent”, “Panjekent”, “Panjikand”, “Panjikant”, “Panjkent”, “Panyakent”, “Pendschikent”, “Pendshikent”, “Pendzhakent”, “Pendzhikent”, “Pendzikent”, “Pendžikent”, “Pendžikenta”, “Pendżykent”, “Penjikent”, “Панҷиканд”, “Пенджекент”, “بومجکث”, “پنج کند”, “پنجکند”, “پنجیکت”, “پنجیکث”, “پنجیکنت”, “پنجیکند”, “펜지켄트”, and “潘加肯特”
- Postal code: 735500
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ozodagon.
Panjakent
- Category: locality
- Location: Sughd, Zeravshan Valley, Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.4962° or 39° 29′ 46″ north
Longitude
67.6141° or 67° 36′ 51″ east
Population
42,600
Elevation
998 metres (3,274 feet)
UN/LOCODE
TJ PJK
Open location code
8JF9FJW7+FM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Uzbek—“Panjakent” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Panjikent”
- Arabic: “بنجكنت”
- Asturian: “Panjakent”
- Basque: “Panjakent”
- Belarusian: “Пенджыкент”
- Bengali: “পাঞ্জাকেন্ত”
- Bulgarian: “Пенджикент”
- Catalan: “Panjakent”
- Cebuano: “Panjakent”
- Chinese: “彭吉肯特”
- Czech: “Pandžakent”
- Danish: “Panjakent”
- Dutch: “Pandzjakent”
- Dutch: “Panjakent”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بنجكنت”
- Estonian: “Pandžakent”
- Finnish: “Pandžakent”
- French: “Pendjikent”
- Galician: “Panxaquent”
- Georgian: “ფანჯაკენტი”
- German: “Pandschakent”
- Greek: “Πεντζακέντ”
- Hebrew: “פנג’אקנט”
- Hindi: “पंजकंद”
- Hindi: “पंजाकॅन्त”
- Hungarian: “Pandzsakent”
- Indonesian: “Panjakent”
- Italian: “Panjakent”
- Japanese: “パンジケント”
- Kazakh: “Пенджикент”
- Kazakh: “Пенжакент”
- Kirghiz: “Пенжикент шаары”
- Kirghiz: “Пенжикент”
- Korean: “판자켄트”
- Latvian: “Pandžakenta”
- Lithuanian: “Pendžikentas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pendzjikent”
- Norwegian: “Pendzjikent”
- Ossetian: “Пенджикент”
- Panjabi: “ਪੰਜਾਕੰਤ”
- Persian: “پنجکنت”
- Persian: “پنجهکند”
- Polish: “Pandżakent”
- Portuguese: “Panjakent”
- Portuguese: “Panjaquente”
- Pushto: “پنجکنت”
- Romanian: “Panjakent”
- Russian: “Пенджикент”
- Slovenian: “Pandžakent”
- Spanish: “Panjakent”
- Swedish: “Pendzjikent”
- Tajik: “Pançakent”
- Tajik: “Панҷакент”
- Tatar: “Пәнҗәкәнт”
- Turkish: “Pencikent”
- Ukrainian: “Панджакент”
- Ukrainian: “Пенджикент”
- Upper Sorbian: “Pandźakent”
- Urdu: “پنجکنت”
- Uzbek: “Panjakent”
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