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Vakhsh District

place in Khatlon Region, Tajikistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ2565367 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vakhsh District (Tajik: Ноҳияи Вахш Nohiya-i Vakhsh) is a district in Khatlon Region, Tajikistan. Its capital is Vakhsh. It is located in the southern part of Khatlon and of the country. The population of the district is 199,300 (January 2020 estimate).

Administrative divisions

The district has an area of about 1,000 km2 (400 sq mi) and is divided administratively into two towns and five jamoats.

Editorial summary

“Vakhsh District” enters the record as place in Khatlon Region, Tajikistan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vakhsh, District and place can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Vakhsh, District and place.
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“Vakhsh District” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Vakhsh, District and place provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2565367. Authority coordinates are 37.711, 68.831. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vakhsh District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.