Ghafurov
title: "Ghafurov" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-sughd-region", "jamoats-of-tajikistan", "populated-places-established-in-1965", "1965-establishments-in-the-soviet-union"] topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-sughd-region" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghafurov" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
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| official_name | Ghafurov |
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| | pushpin_map | Tajikistan | | pushpin_label_position | bottom | | pushpin_map_caption | Location in Tajikistan | | subdivision_type | Country | | subdivision_name | Tajikistan | | subdivision_type1 | Region | | subdivision_name1 | Sughd Region | | subdivision_type2 | District | | subdivision_name2 | Ghafurov District | | area_total_km2 | 13.6 | | population_as_of | 2020 | | population_total | 20,600 | | coordinates | | ::
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Ghafurov (also Gafurov, ; ) is a town in Ghafurov district, Sughd Region, Tajikistan. It has a population of 20,600 (2020 estimate), up from 18,900 in the 1989 census. The town was created in 1965, and until 1978 had the name Sovietabad (). In that year it was renamed in honor of Bobojon Ghafurovich Ghafurov, commemorating his term of office as the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan from 1946 to 1956.
Ghafurov is the administrative center of Ghafurov district. The city lies a few kilometers southeast of the regional capital of Khujand near the border with Kyrgyzstan. A chief product of the city is vegetable and fruit preserves. There is also a cotton industry. The nearest train station is Khujand (formerly Leninabad).
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References
- "Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of 1 January 2020". Statistics office of Tajikistan.
- [http://gazetteer.de/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=fr&des=wg&srt=npan&col=abcdefghinoq&msz=1500&geo=-209 World Gazetteer, Tajikistan]
- [http://mirslovarei.com/content_bes/Gafurov-13432.html Russian Dictionary-Search engine mirslovarej.com]
- [http://info.worldbank.org/etools/docs/library/87193/TajikRegion%28eng1%29.pdf Luigi De Martino: ''Tajikistan at a Crossroad: The Politics of Decentralization'' Weltbank-Bericht, January 2004 p. 52]
- [http://rumbletum.org/Asia/Tajikistan/Tajikistan+(general)/_1514900_Ghafurov.html#themap Geographic information on Google Earth]
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