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Sughd Province
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province of Tajikistan
Sughd Province is a region in northern Tajikistan that serves as the country's main industrial and economic center. It matters because it contains significant population, agricultural land, and manufacturing activity that are important to Tajikistan's overall economy.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region of Tajikistan
- Named after
- Sogdia
- Official name
- Вилояти Суғд
- Country
- Tajikistan
- Located in
- Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic
- Capital
- Khujand
- Population
- 2823900
- Area
- 25400
- Time zone
- UTC+05:00
- Shares border with
- Surxondaryo Region
- Image
- Historical Museum of Sughd.jpg
- Dialing code
- 3422
- Licence plate code
- 02РТ
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- topic's main category
- Category:Sughd Region
- category for people born here
- Q8073394
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Sughd Region
- Commons category
- Sughd province
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- office held by head of government
- governor
- inception
- 1939-10-27
- postal code
- 735700
- native label
- Вилояти Суғд
- language used
- Tajik
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Encyclopedic overview
Sughd Province, also referred to as the Sogdia Region, and Leninabad before 2001, is one of the four administrative divisions and one of the three provinces that make up Tajikistan. Centered in historical Sogdiana, it is located in the northwest of the country, with an area of some 25,400 square kilometers and a population of 2,707,300 (2020 estimate), up from 2,233,550 according to the 2010 census and 1,871,979 in 2000. The capital is Khujand. The Province's ethnic composition in 2010 was 84% Tajik, 14.8% Uzbek, 0.6% Kyrgyz, 0.4% Russian and 0.1% Tatar.
The province shares a border with Uzbekistan (Surxondaryo, Qashqadaryo, Jizzakh, Sirdaryo, Namangan, Samarkand, Tashkent and Fergana regions), Kyrgyzstan (Osh and Batken regions) and Districts of Republican Subordination. The Syr Darya river flows through it. It contains the Akash Massif and Mogoltau Massif Important Bird Areas. Sughd is separated from the rest of Tajikistan by the Gissar Range (passes may be closed in winter). The southern part of the region is the east-west valley of the upper Zarafshan River. North, over the Turkestan Range, is the Ferghana Valley. The region has 29% of Tajikistan's population and one-third of its arable land. It produces two-thirds of the country's GDP.
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