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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 41,200 residents
- Description: city in Tajikistan
- Also known as: “Panjikant”, “Panjkent”, “Pendshikent”, “Pendzhakent”, and “Pendzhikent”
- Postal code: 735500
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ancient Panjakent.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ozodagon.
Ozodagon
Hamlet
Ozodagon is a village in Sughd Region, northern Tajikistan. It is part of the jamoat Khurmi in the city of Panjakent.
Panjakent
- Category: locality
- Location: Sughd Region, Zeravshan Valley, Tajikistan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.4962° or 39° 29′ 46″ northLongitude
67.6141° or 67° 36′ 51″ eastPopulation
41,200Elevation
998 metres (3,274 feet)United Nations Location Code
TJ PJKOpen location code
8JF9FJW7+FMOpenStreetMap ID
node 271664614OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Chinese: “潘加肯特”
- Czech: “Pandžakent”
- Danish: “Panjakent”
- Dutch: “Pandzjakent”
- Dutch: “Panjakent”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بنجكنت”
- Estonian: “Pandžakent”
- Finnish: “Pandžakent”
- Finnish: “Pendžikent”
- French: “Pendjikent”
- Galician: “Panjakent”
- Galician: “Panxaquent”
- Georgian: “ფანჯაკენტი”
- German: “Pandschakent”
- German: “Pendschikent”
- Greek: “Πεντζακέντ”
- Hebrew: “פנג’אקנט”
- Hindi: “पंजकंद”
- Hindi: “पंजाकॅन्त”
- Hungarian: “Pandzsakent”
- Indonesian: “Panjakent”
- Italian: “Panjakant”
- Italian: “Panjakent”
- Italian: “Pendzikent”
- Japanese: “パンジケント”
- Kazakh: “Пенджикент”
- Kazakh: “Пенжакент”
- Kirghiz: “Пенжикент шаары”
- Kirghiz: “Пенжикент”
- Korean: “판자켄트”
- Korean: “펜지켄트”
- Lithuanian: “Pandžakentas”
- Lithuanian: “Pendžikentas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pendzjikent”
- Norwegian: “Pendzjikent”
- Ossetian: “Пенджикент”
- Panjabi: “ਪੰਜਾਕੰਤ”
- Persian: “بومجکث”
- Persian: “پنج کند”
- Persian: “پنجکنت”
- Persian: “پنجکند”
- Persian: “پنجهکند”
- Persian: “پنجیکت”
- Persian: “پنجیکث”
- Persian: “پنجیکنت”
- Persian: “پنجیکند”
- Polish: “Pandżakent”
- Polish: “Pendżykent”
- Portuguese: “Panjakent”
- Portuguese: “Panjaquente”
- Pushto: “پنجکنت”
- Romanian: “Panjakent”
- Russian: “Панджакент”
- Russian: “Пенджекент”
- Russian: “Пенджикент”
- Spanish: “Panjakent”
- Spanish: “Panjankent”
- Spanish: “Panjikand”
- Spanish: “Panyakent”
- Swedish: “Panjakent”
- Swedish: “Panjekent”
- Swedish: “Pendjikent”
- Swedish: “Pendzjikent”
- Swedish: “Penjikent”
- Tajik: “Pançakent”
- Tajik: “Панҷакент”
- Tajik: “Панҷиканд”
- Tatar: “Пәнҗәкәнт”
- Turkish: “Pencikent”
- Ukrainian: “Панджакент”
- Ukrainian: “Пенджикент”
- Upper Sorbian: “Pandźakent”
- Upper Sorbian: “Pendžikent”
- Urdu: “پنجکنت”
- Uzbek: “Panjakent”
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