Hamadoni District is a district in the south-east of Khatlon Province of Tajikistan, located south of Kulob and stretching along a section of the Panj on the border with Afghanistan. Population 123,800 (2007 data).[1] Between 1950 and 2004 called Moskovskiy District,[2] then renamed in honor of Mir Said Ali Hamadoni, a 14th century Persian poet and scholar who is buried in Khatlon.
The district capital is Moskovskiy or Moskva (Tajik: Маскав)[3] (located at ).[4]
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