Qala Panja
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قلعه بنج Qala Panja |
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 57 ′ N , 72 ° 19 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Afghanistan | ||
| Badakhshan | |||
| District | Wakhan | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | AF-BDS | ||
| height | 2820 m | ||
Qala Panja (also Qila-e Panja, Qila-e Panjeh, Kila Punja, Kala Panja; Persian قلعه بنج) is a village in the Wakhan Corridor in the far northeast of Afghanistan .
It belongs to the Wakhan Administrative District in Badakhshan Province .
It is 83 km from Ishkashim at the entrance of the Wakhan Corridor and is at an altitude of 2,820 m at a safe distance from Pyanj , which arises from the confluence of the Pamir and Wakhan rivers 34 km above the village .
In 2002 there were 72 households with 640 inhabitants in the village.
Near the village is the former hunting lodge of Mohammed Sahir Shah , the last king of Afghanistan.
While today Sarhad-e Broghil, about 115 km further in the Wahkan, is the last place inhabited all year round, during the times of the caravans Qala Panja was the last place where food and pack animals could be bought for the more than 300 km long way the Pamir to Tashkurgan in Sarikol or in Turkestan, today's Taxkorgan in Xinjiang, China .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wakhan & the Afghan Pamir ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 3.88 MB) published by the Aga Khan Foundation-Afghanistan.
- ↑ Information from Google Maps and Google Earth
- ↑ Afghanistan Wakhan Mission Technical Report (PDF file; 3.73 MB) Publication by UNEP - United Nations Environment Program and FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization, 2003
- ↑ Derek Waller: The Pundits . The University Press of Kentucky, Kentucky 1990, ISBN 0-8131-1666-X ; Digitized on Google Books
