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'''Gaz Khan''' or '''Goz Khun''' is a [[village]] in the [[Wakhan]] in [[Badakhshan Province]] in north-eastern [[Afghanistan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmagaz/geonames4.asp |title=NGA GeoName Database |publisher=[[National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]] |access-date=2008-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522153801/http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmagaz/geonames4.asp |archive-date=2008-05-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is located at the confluence of the [[Panj River]] and [[Wakhan River]],<ref name=Gazetteer>{{cite book |editor= Adamec, Ludwig W.|title=Historical and Political Gazetteer of Afghanistan |volume=1 |year=1972 |publisher=Akadamische Druck-u. Verlangsanstalt |location= [[Graz, Austria]] |pages= 45}}</ref>  The village is the starting point for treks into the [[Great Pamir]].<ref>[http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1nrka/AsiaTravelAFGHANISTA/resources/118.htm Lonely Planet (2007): ''Afghanistan''] p.170</ref>
Gaz Khan is inhabited by [[Wakhi (ethnic group)|Wakhi]] people.  The population of the village (2003) is 149.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.juldu.com/Pamir/Wakhan%20MIssion%20Report%20UNEP.pdf |title=United Nations Environment Programme (2003) ''Wakhan Mission Report'' |access-date=2010-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006232803/http://www.juldu.com/Pamir/Wakhan%20MIssion%20Report%20UNEP.pdf |archive-date=2011-10-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==References==
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{{Badakhshan Province}}
[[Category:Populated places in Wakhan District]]
[[Category:Wakhan]]
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