Regions of Tajikistan

Administratively, Tajikistan is divided into:

• one autonomous region (Russian: автономная область; Tajik: вилояти мухтор, romanized: viloyati mukhtor)
• two regions (Tajik: вилоятҳо, romanized: viloyatho, Persian: ولایت‌ها), sing. viloyat, Persian: ولایت, Russian: область/вилоят, romanized: oblast)
• the districts under republic subordination
• the capital city, Dushanbe.

A clickable map of Tajikistan exhibiting its four provinces.

List of regions

No.	Name	Russian	Tajik	ISO	Capital	Area (km^2)	Pop. (2000)	Pop. (2010)[1]	Pop. (2019)[2]
1	Sughd Region	Согдийская область Sogdijskaya oblastʹ	Вилояти Суғд Viloyati Sughd	TJ-SU	Khujand	25,400	1,871,979	2,233,550	2,658,400
2	Districts under Republic Subordination	Районы республиканского подчинения Rajoni respublikanskovo podchineniya	Ноҳияҳои тобеи ҷумҳурӣ Nohiyahoi tobei jumhurī	TJ-RA	Dushanbe	28,600	1,337,479	1,722,908	2,120,000
3	Khatlon Region	Хатлонская область Khatlonskaya oblastʹ	Вилояти Хатлон Viloyati Khatlon	TJ-KT	Bokhtar	24,800	2,150,136	2,677,251	3,274,900
4	Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region[a]	Горно-Бадахшанская автономная область Gorno-Badakhshanskaya avtonomnaya oblastʹ	Вилояти Мухтори Кӯҳистони Бадахшон Viloyati Mukhtori Kūhistoni Badakhshon	TJ-GB	Khorugh	64,200	206,004	205,949	226,900
–	Dushanbe	Душанбе Dushanbe	Душанбе Dushanbe	TJ-DU	Dushanbe	124.6	561,895	724,844	846,400

Notes

1. The Tajik name for Upper (Mountainous) Badakhshan is Kuhistoni Badakhshon, but the Russian name Gorno-Badakhshan is more commonly used in English.

Administrative divisions

Each region is divided into districts (Tajik: ноҳия, nohiya or Russian: район, rayon), which are further subdivided into municipal units: either as urban municipalities called either as cities (Tajik: шаҳр, romanized: şahr, "cities") or towns (Tajik: шаҳрак, romanized: şahrak, "towns"), or as rural municipalities called jamoats (Tajik: ҷамоати деҳот, romanized: jamoati dehot, "village communes"), which in turn are further subdivided into villages/settlements (Tajik: деҳа or қишлоқ, romanized: deha or qyshloq, "villages/hamlets").

As of 2020, Tajikistan has a total of 47 (not including 4 districts of the capital city Dushanbe) districts; prior to 2017 it had about 58.

Type	Native name	Level	Number[3]
Districts	ноҳия nohiya	2	47
Cities	шаҳр shahr	2	18
Jamoats		3	368
Towns	шаҳрак shahrak	3	65

See also

• Districts of Tajikistan
• List of regions of Tajikistan by Human Development Index
• ISO 3166-2:TJ
• Yagnob Valley

References

1. "Changes in the number and distribution of the population of the Republic of Tajikistan between the censuses of 2000 and 2010" (PDF) (in Russian). Tajstat. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-04. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
2. "Tajikistan: Provinces and Major Cities". City Population. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
3. "Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2020" (PDF) (in Russian). Statistics office of Tajikistan. p. 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 June 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2020.