Hamadoni District


Hamadoni District is a district in the south-east of Khatlon Region of Tajikistan, located south of Kulob and stretching along a section of the Panj on the border with Afghanistan. Between 1950 and 2004 it was called Moskovskiy town, then renamed in honor of Mir [Sayyid Ali Hamadani], a 14th-century Persia Great Islamic preacher, traveller, poet, and scholar who preached Islam in different parts of world, and is buried in Khatlon.
The district capital is Moskovskiy or Moskva. The population of the district is 148,800.

Administrative divisions

The district has an area of about and is divided administratively into one town and seven jamoats. They are as follows:
JamoatPopulation
Moskovskiy 22,500
Chubek18,490
Dashtigulo19,331
Mehnatobod21,816
Panjob10,418
Panjrud13,092
Qahramon18,294
Turdiev10,385