Editing Geography of Tajikistan (section)

==Pamir Mountains==
[[File:1982 expedition to Tartu Ülikool 350 (40).jpg|thumb|[[Tartu Ülikool 350]] is a 6,258-meter peak in Pamir Mountains.]]
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Tajikistan is home to some of the highest mountains in the world, including the [[Pamir Mountains|Pamir]] and [[Alay Mountains|Alay]] ranges. 93% of Tajikistan is mountainous with altitudes ranging from {{convert|300|m|ft|abbr=on}} to almost {{convert|7500|m|ft|abbr=on}}, and nearly 50% of Tajikistan's territory is above {{convert|3000|m|ft|abbr=on}}.

The massive mountain ranges are cut by hundreds of [[canyon]]s and gorges at the bottom of which run streams that flow into larger river valleys where the majority of the country's population lives and works.  The [[Pamir Mountains|Pamirs]] in particular are heavily [[glacier|glaciated]], and Tajikistan is home to the largest non-polar glacier in the world, the [[Fedchenko Glacier]].

The Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan lie in [[Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province]] ([[GBAO]]) in the east half of the country. The northern border is formed by the [[Trans-Alay Range]] ([[Independence Peak]] {{convert|7174|m|ft|abbr=on}}, [[Kyzylart Pass]] {{convert|4280|m|ft|abbr=on}}). The highest peak is [[Ismoil Somoni Peak]] ({{convert|7495|m|ft|abbr=on}}) (formerly known as Stalin Peak and Communism Peak), on the north-western edge of GBAO. It lies between [[Ibn Sina Peak]] ({{convert|7134|m|ft|abbr=on}}) (also known as [[Lenin Peak]]) on the border with [[Kyrgyzstan]] to the north and [[Peak Korzhenevskaya]] ({{convert|7105|m|ft|abbr=on}}) in [[Academy of Sciences Range]] ({{convert|6785|m|ft|abbr=on}}) further south. The southern border is formed by the northernmost ridges of the [[Karakoram Range]], with [[Mayakovskiy Peak]] ({{convert|6096|m|ft|abbr=on}}), [[Karl Marx Peak]] ({{convert|6726|m|ft|abbr=on}}), [[Engels Peak]] ({{convert|6510|m|ft|abbr=on}}), and [[Concord Peak]] ({{convert|5469|m|ft|abbr=on}}) stretching west to east along the border to Afghanistan.