Khujand
Хуҷанд (Tajik) | |
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  Khujand Location in Tajikistan  Khujand Khujand (West and Central Asia)  Khujand Khujand (Hindu-Kush) | |
| Coordinates: 40°17′N 69°38′E / 40.283°N 69.633°E | |
| Country | Tajikistan |
| Province | Sughd |
| Area | |
| • City | 40 km2 (20 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2 651.7 km2 (1 023.8 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 300 m (1,000 ft) |
| Population (2019)[1] | |
| • City | 191,000 |
| • Urban | 770,000 |
| • Metro | 1,001,700 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 |
| Area code | 00 992 3422 |
| Official languages | |
| Website | www |
Khujand[a], sometimes spelled Khodjent and formerly known as Leninabad[b] from 1936 to 1991, is the second-largest city of Tajikistan and the capital of Tajikistan's northernmost Sughd province.
Khujand is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia, dating back about 2,500 years to the Persian Empire. Situated on the Syr Darya river at the mouth of the Fergana Valley, Khujand was a major city along the ancient Silk Road. After being captured by Alexander the Great in 329 BC, it was renamed Alexandria Eschate and has since been part of various empires in history, including the Umayyad Caliphate (8th century), the Mongol Empire (13th century) and the Russian empire (19th century).[3] Today, the majority of its population are ethnic Tajiks and the city is close to the present borders of both Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
- ^ "Population size, Republic of Tajikistan on January 1, 2019" (PDF) (in Tajik). Tajikistan Statistics Agency. 2019. p. 17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- ^ "КОНСТИТУЦИЯ РЕСПУБЛИКИ ТАДЖИКИСТАН". prokuratura.tj. Parliament of Tajikistan. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^ Abdullaev, Kamoludin (2018). "Khujand". Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 241. ISBN 978-1-5381-0252-7.
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