Qala Wust | |
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village | |
Coordinates: 36°58′19″N 72°50′48″E / 36.97194°N 72.84667°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | Badakhshan Province |
Time zone | + 4.30 |
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Qala Wust [1] (name variants: Kala Wust, Ūst, Qal‘ah-ye Ūst ( BGN standard), Qal‘a-i-Ūst, Qala Ust, Qala Yost, Qal‘eh-ye Vost [2]) is a mountain village in the Wakhan region of the Badakhshan Province, north-eastern Afghanistan.
Qala Wust is a settlement of Tajik highlanders. [3]
The village gave names to the Qala Wust Valley, [4] [5] Qala Wust Gneiss formation, [6] and made a former name (Koh-i Qala-i Ust; koh-i means "mountain of") of the Kohanha massif. [3]