Badakhshan
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast is located in the mountains of the Pamirs with an area of 64.2 thousand km 2 and covers 44.5 percent of the territory of Tajikistan. 97% of the territory of GBAO is mountainous, and the highest mountains of Tajikistan - Ismoili Somoni (7495 m), Istiqlol (7134 m), Korzhenevsky (7105 m) are located in this region. That is why Badakhshan is also called the Roof of the World. The largest glaciers in Central Asia are the Fedchenko Glacier (651.7 km2, 77 km long), Grumm-Grzhimailo (142.9 km2), Garmo (114.6 km2), and others, which are the headwaters of the Panj River. Gund, Bartang, Shohdara, Yazgulom, Vanj.
GBAO is bordered by Kyrgyzstan to the north, China to the east, and Afghanistan to the south and west.