Gissar Valley in Tajikistan

Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

 runs east-west along the southern slopes of Gissar Range

Gissar Range

Gissar Range is a mountain range in Central Asia, in the western part of the Pamir-Alay system, stretching over 200 km in the general east-west direction across the territory of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan...

 and on the northern border of Khatlon Province. It is about 100 km long and up to 20 km wide in the middle, stretching from Vahdat district

Vahdat district

Vahdat District is one of the larger districts of the Districts of Republican Subordination in Tajikistan, called Kofarnihon District until the introduction of a new administrative division in the end of 2003. During the Soviet period it was named Ordzhonikidzeabad district in honor of Georgian...

 in the east to Tursunzoda district

Tursunzoda district

Tursunzoda District is the westernmost district of the Districts of Republican Subordination , bordering on Uzbekistan in the west and enclosed by Tajikistan's Shahrinaw District from the other directions. Its capital is Tursunzoda, called Regar, or "a town on sand", until 1978...

 on the border with Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

 in the west, with the capital Dushanbe

Dushanbe

-Economy:Coal, lead, and arsenic are mined nearby in the cities of Nurek and Kulob allowing for the industrialization of Dushanbe. The Nurek Dam, the world's highest as of 2008, generates 95% of Tajikistan's electricity, and another dam, the Roghun Dam, is planned on the Vakhsh River...

 and Hisor district

Hisor district

Hisor District or Nohiyai Hisor is a district in the Region of Republican Subordination, in Tajikistan, located west of the capital Dushanbe, between Varzob District in the east and Shahrinaw District in the west...

 at its center. The elevations in the valley range from 700 metres (2,296.6 ft) to 1000 metres (3,280.8 ft). The valley is irrigated by Kofarnihon River

Kofarnihon River

Kofarnihon River or Kofirnihan is one of the major tributaries of Amudarya...

in its upper and middle course. Warm temperatures (29 °C in the summer, 0 °C to –1 °C in the winter) and abundant water for irrigation make the Gissar Valley one of the prime cotton growing areas in Tajikistan.