Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAR) is a mountanous province (region) of Tajikistan. It makes up 40% of the land area of the country, and is populated mostly by ethnic Tajiks, with a minority of Kyrgyz living mostly in the Murgab area. The highest mountains in Pamirs and in Central Asia are located here, with Lenin Peak (7134m, on the border with Kyrgyzstan), Communism Peak (Ismail Samani) (7495m), and Pobeda (7439m).
Only two easily navigable roads connect GBAR to the outside world, Khorog-Osh & Khorog-Dushanbe. A third road from Khorog to Tashkurgan in China is very rough. Gorno-Badakhshan is separated from Pakistan by the narrow, but nearly impassable, Wakhan Corridor.
