Darwazi

Darvoz District or Nohiya-i Darvoz is a district in Tajikistan, located at the extreme north-west of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region. It borders on Afghanistan to the south, along the Panj, and within Tajikistan on Khatlon Province to the west and on the Region of Republican Subordination to the north. Its administrative capital is Qal'ai Khumb. The population in Darvoz district is 23,600 . The district was historically part of the Darvaz principality, a semi-independent statelet ruled by a mir.