Lakkon
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Lakkon Лаккон |
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 Tajikistan
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| Province : | Sughd | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 10 ' N , 70 ° 52' E | ||
| Height : | 815 m | ||
| Residents : | 5.514 | ||
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| Community type: | Jamoat | ||
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Lakkon ( Tajik and Russian Лаккон ) is a village and the capital of the Jamoat (municipality) of the same name in the Tajik province of Sughd . The population of the Lakkon Jamoat is 5514.
location
Lakkon is located at an altitude of 815 m in the extreme east of the Sughd Province, which forms the northern foothills of the Tajik territory into the Ferghana Valley . To the west are the Kyrgyz border town of Kara Bak and the Tajik city of Isfara , while the border with Uzbekistan runs in the north . In the south and east of Lakkon there is Kyrgyz territory, although the demarcation of the border in this region repeatedly gives rise to disputes. The Uzbek exclave Soʻx is located in the southeast of Lakkon, surrounded by Kyrgyz territory.
climate
According to the effective climate classification, a steppe climate prevails in Lakkon . The summers are hot and there is little precipitation, and much of the annual precipitation falls in spring.
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Infrastructure
The location of Lakkon surrounded by the neighboring states of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as well as the ongoing conflicts over the demarcation of borders in the region make it difficult to expand the infrastructure. The connecting road from Lakkon towards Isfara in the west runs through Kyrgyz territory in the vicinity of the village of Kara Bak, east of Lakkon a road that connects the Kyrgyz city of Batken with the Kyrgyz region in the east of Lakkon runs on a short section over unpopulated Tajik Area. Overall, the area around Lakkon is dominated by agriculture, with water being taken from the Isfara River for irrigation near the city of the same name . There is also a psychiatric clinic in the place .
Challenges
In addition to the low material prosperity and the poorly developed infrastructure in the region, Islamism and the border conflicts in the region represent central challenges. According to official information from the Tajik government from autumn 2018, 1,899 Tajik citizens left the country in the previous years for Syria and to fight Iraq , 111 of them came from Nohija Isfara, to which Lakkon also belongs. This corresponds to a disproportionately high proportion and indicates a pronounced problem in the region. In February 2019, Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin announced his intention to bring Tajik citizens back to their homeland from war zones in the Middle East . In the meantime, the fight against Islamist extremism is being pushed ahead in the region, with particular efforts being made to improve the educational situation.
In addition, the ongoing border conflicts on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border are putting a strain on the region's development. The demarcation between the two states has not yet been conclusively resolved due to the differing positions of both sides. Smaller clashes occur again and again in the region, for example on May 22, 2019 when residents of the Kyrgyz town of Ravat, accompanied by some Kyrgyz border guards, entered Tajik territory in a cemetery near Lakkon. A warning shot was then fired from the Tajik side before the situation could be resolved by border troops on both sides. Increased cooperation between the Kyrgyz and Tajik page in the region is the subject of the project United Nations , the one million US $ from the Peacebuilding Fund of the Peacebuilding Commission is supported.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lakkon, Tajikistan. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Lakkon. Retrieved August 11, 2020 (de-US).
- ↑ World Health Organization (ed.): Atlas Country Profiles Europe . S. 386 .
- ↑ Rehabilitation of 'Zumratsho' headwork in Isfara, Tajikistan. Retrieved August 11, 2020 (American English).
- ^ "Nobody Departed to Iraq and Syria from Here". How Villages of Tajikistan Counteract Extremism. In: CABAR.asia. March 6, 2019, Retrieved August 11, 2020 (UK English).
- ↑ Another clash reported on Tajik-Kyrgyz borde. In: ASIA-Plus. May 24, 2019, accessed on August 11, 2020 .
- ^ Cross-border Cooperation for Sustainable Peace and Development. In: UNDP. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .