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Somoniyon
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Somoniyon (, ) is a town in Tajikistan. It is the administrative capital of Rudaki District, one of the Districts of Republican Subordination, lying 17 km south of the national capital of Dushanbe and just east of the river Kofarnihon. The population of the town is 25,200 (January 2020 estimate).

Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Somoniyon
Settlement.native_name
Сомониён
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Tajikistan
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bottom
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Location in Tajikistan
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Country
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Region
Settlement.subdivision_name
25px Tajikistan
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Districts of Republican Subordination
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District
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Rudaki District
Settlement.population_as_of
January 2020
Settlement.population_total
25200

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Somoniyon (, ) is a town in Tajikistan. It is the administrative capital of Rudaki District, one of the Districts of Republican Subordination, lying 17 km south of the national capital of Dushanbe and just east of the river Kofarnihon. The population of the town is 25,200 (January 2020 estimate).

During the Soviet era, the productive Kaganovich collective farm for cotton was located here, led by and Khalimakhon Suleymanova.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Somoniyon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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