Hissar Mountains
| Hissar Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Khazret Sultan ( 4643 m ) | |
| location | Uzbekistan , Tajikistan | |
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| Coordinates | 38 ° 57 ' N , 68 ° 10' E | |
| rock | Mica slate , granite , sandstone | |
The Hissar Mountains , also Gissar Mountains or Hisor Mountains ( Uzbek Hisor tizmasi ; Tajik Қаторкӯҳи Ҳисор Qatorkuhi Hisor ; Russian Гиссарский хребет Gissarski chrebet ), is a mountain range in Central Asia .
It extends 200 km in a west-east direction across the border of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan . The highest mountain in the range reaches a height of 4643 m . He was once named Berg of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party , was nameless for a time and is now called Khazret Sultan . Today it is the highest mountain in Uzbekistan.
The mountains run south of the Serafschankette . The Fanberge lie between the two parallel mountain regions. In the west of the mountain range lies the Uzbek province of Surxondaryo . In the southeast is the Tajik district Hisor with the extensive and fertile Hisortal , which extends to the district capital Hisor and Dushanbe , the capital of Tajikistan.
Geologically, the Hissar Mountains consist of mica slate , granite and sandstone .
The annual rainfall in the Hissar Mountains reaches values of up to 1600 mm.
Individual evidence
- ^ Initial Communication of the Republic of Uzbekistan - Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. (PDF; 2.6 MB) National Commission of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Climate Change, 1999, accessed on November 7, 2014 (English).
- ↑ lexikon.meyers.de: Hissargebirge (accessed on March 4, 2009; page no longer available)
- ^ Atlas of the Soviet Central Asian Republics , Authority for Geodesy and Cartography, Moscow, 1988 (Russian)
- ↑ Article Hissar Mountains in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ traveling-world.de: Tajikistan: Situation and Nature (accessed on March 4, 2009)