The Wakhan corridor

Wakhan (or Vakhan) is a very mountainous and rugged part of the Pamir region. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 230 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)The Wakhan corridor is a cold place even before winter I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 230 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)The Wakhan corridor is a cold place even before winter I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or... A photograph of Ismail Samani Peak (then known as Peak Communism) taken in 1989. ...

Geography

Вахон , Vakhan is located in and around the extreme north-east of Afghanistan, which is connected to China by a long, narrow strip called the Vakhan Corridor, which separates the Gorno-Badakhshan region of Tajikistan from the North-West Frontier Province and Northern Areas of Pakistan. Wakhan Corridor The Wakhan Corridor or Wakhan Salient (also spelt as Vakhan; Persian: ) is a narrow (in some places less than 10 mi. ... Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAR) is a mountainous province (region) of Tajikistan. ... For the 1959 British film see Northwest Frontier The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) (Urdu: shemaal maghribi sarhadi soobe شمال مغربی سرحدی صوبہ) is the smallest in size of the four provinces of Pakistan and is home to the Pashtuns (Pakhtoons). ... The Northern Areas (Urdu: شمالی علاقے ) or Gilgit-Baltistan is the northernmost region of Pakistani-administered Kashmir. ...

It contains the headwaters of the Amu Darya (Oxus) River, and was an ancient corridor for travellers from the Tarim Basin to Badakshan. Western Wakhan (Xiumi) was conquered in the early part of the 1st century AD by Kujula Kadphises, the first "Great Kushan," and formed one of the five xihou or principalities that formed the nucleus of the original Kushan kingdom.^[1] The Amu Darya (Darya means river) rises in the Pamirs and flows mainly north-west through the Hindu Kush, Uzbekistan to join the Aral Sea in a large delta. ... The Amu Darya (in Persian آمودریا; Darya means river in Persian) rises in the Pamirs and flows mainly north-west through the Hindu Kush, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan to join the Aral Sea in a large river delta. ... Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin. ... Afghanistan and of Tajikistan. ... Tetradrachm of Kujula Kadphises (30-80 CE) in the style of Hermaeus. ... Boundary of the Kushan empire, c. ...

Wakhan District

Wakhan District of Badakhshan
Administration		District council
Population
-	Population	13,000 (22nd of 29)
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Wakhan District is one of the 29 districts of Badakhshan Province in eastern Afghanistan. Total population for the district is about 13,000 residents. Wakhan District is bounded by three international borders: Tajikistan to the north, Pakistan to the south, and Afghanistan's only border with China to the east. After the provinces districts are the second level of administrative subdivisions in Afghanistan. ... Badakhshan (Persian: بدخشان Badakhshān) is one of the provinces of Afghanistan, consisting of 29 districts. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 776 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1056 × 816 pixel, file size: 26 KB, MIME type: image/png) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... After the provinces districts are the second level of administrative subdivisions in Afghanistan. ... Badakhshan (Persian: بدخشان Badakhshān) is one of the provinces of Afghanistan, consisting of 29 districts. ... Border has several different, but related meanings: Generic borders A border can consist of a margin around the edge of something, such as a lawn, garden, photograph, or sheet of paper. ...

Demographics

Vakhan is sparsely populated. Most of its inhabitants speak the Vakhi language (x̌ik zik), and belong to an ethnic group known as Vakhi. Nomadic Kyrgyz herders live at the higher altitudes. The people also inhabit several surrounding areas adjacent to the Wakhan such as in Tajikistan, Pakistan and China. Wakhi is an Iranian language in the subranch of Southeastern Iranian languages (see Pamir languages). ... Inhabitants of Wakhan. ... Languages Kyrgyz Religions Sunni Islam Related ethnic groups other Turkic peoples Kyrgyz (also spelled Kirghiz) are a Turkic ethnic group found primarily in Kyrgyzstan. ...

Bin Ladens Location

Osama Bin Laden is possiblly located here.

Footnotes

1. ^ Hill, John E. 2004. The Western Regions according to the Hou Hanshu. Draft annotated English translation.[1]

References

• Gordon, T. E. 1876. The Roof of the World: Being the Narrative of a Journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the Russian Frontier and the Oxus sources on Pamir. Edinburgh. Edmonston and Douglas. Reprint: Ch’eng Wen Publishing Company. Tapei. 1971.
• Shahrani, M. Nazif. (1979) The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War. University of Washington Press. 1st paperback edition with new preface and epilogue (2002). ISBN 0-295-98262-4.
• Stein, Aurel M. 1921a. Serindia: Detailed report of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China, 5 vols. London & Oxford. Clarendon Press. Reprint: Delhi. Motilal Banarsidass. 1980. [2]
• Stein Aurel M. 1921. “A Chinese expedition across the Pamirs and Hindukush, A.D. 747.” Indian Antiquary 1923. From: www.pears2.lib.ohio-state.edu/ FULLTEXT/TR-ENG/aurel.htm. Last modified 24 June, 1997. Accessed 13 January, 1999.
• Stein Aurel M. 1928. Innermost Asia: Detailed report of explorations in Central Asia, Kan-su and Eastern Iran, 5 vols. Clarendon Press. Reprint: New Delhi. Cosmo Publications. 1981.
• Stein Aurel M. 1929. On Alexander's Track to the Indus: Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-west Frontier of India. London. Reprint, New York, Benjamin Blom, 1972.

External Links

• Wakhan Development Partnership A project working to improve the lives of the people of Wakhan since 2003