Taghdumbash Pamir

Taghdumbash Pamir
Location	Taxkorgan, Xinjiang, China
Geography
Coordinates	37°12′N 75°24′E / 37.200°N 75.400°E / 37.200; 75.400Coordinates: 37°12′N 75°24′E / 37.200°N 75.400°E / 37.200; 75.400
Population centers	Dafdar
Traversed by	Karakoram Highway

Taghdumbash Pamir
Traditional Chinese	塔克敦巴什帕米爾
Simplified Chinese	塔克敦巴什帕米尔
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin tǎdébāshì Pàmǐ'ěr
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	塔德八士
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin tǎdùnbāshí

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	tǎdébāshì Pàmǐ'ěr

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	tǎdùnbāshí

Taghdumbash Pamir (Chinese: 塔克敦巴什帕米尔 or Chinese: 塔德八士) or Taxkorgan Valley is a pamir or high valley in the south west of Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, in Xinjiang, China. It lies to the west of the Karakoram Highway. It is inhabited by Wakhi, Kirghiz and Tajik animal herders, who graze yaks and other animals on the grasslands of the pamir.

The name Taghdumbash Pamir is also sometimes applied to the mountain ranges surrounding the pamir, on the borders of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, straddling the Pamir Mountains along the Sarikol Range, the Hindu Kush, the Mustagh mountains, and the Wakhan. The range divides Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan, and Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan.

During the Qing Dynasty the Chinese claimed suzerainty over the Taghdumbash Pamir but permitted the Mir of Hunza to administer the region in return for a tribute. Until 1937 the inhabitants paid tribute to the Mir of Hunza, who exercised control over the pastures.

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