# Daroot-Korgon

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Place in Osh, Kyrgyzstan

Daroot-Korgon Дароот-Коргон Daroot-Korgon Coordinates: 39°33′12″N 72°12′0″E / 39.55333°N 72.20000°E / 39.55333; 72.20000 Country Kyrgyzstan Region Osh District Chong-Alay Elevation 2,469 m (8,100 ft) Population (2021) • Total 6,421 Time zone UTC+6

**Daroot-Korgon** (also *Daraut-Kurghan* or *Darautkorgon* or *Daroot-Qurghan*) is a village in the western [Alay Valley](/source/Alay_Valley) of [Osh Region](/source/Osh_Region), [Kyrgyzstan](/source/Kyrgyzstan). It is the capital of [Chong-Alay District](/source/Chong-Alay_District). Its population was 6,421 in 2021.[1] It is about 90 km west of [Sary-Tash](/source/Sary-Tash) on the river [Kyzyl-Suu](/source/Vakhsh_(river)). To the north is a route to [Osh](/source/Osh) via the [Tengizbay](/source/Tengizbay) pass, used by Russian explorers before the construction of the road though [Sary-Tash](/source/Sary-Tash).

To the south, the Altyn River flows north through a deep valley in the [Trans-Alay Range](/source/Trans-Alay_Range). At the head of the valley is a Tajik border post and then [Altyn Mazar](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Altyn_Mazar&action=edit&redlink=1) on the river [Muksu](/source/Muksu) which flows west to join the Kyzyl-Suu. South of this is the foot of the [Fedchenko Glacier](/source/Fedchenko_Glacier).

The village of [Kara-Shybak](/source/Kara-Shybak) is 3 km (2 mi) to the south, and [Kyzyl-Eshme](/source/Kyzyl-Eshme) is 5 km (3 mi) to the east.

[Aurel Stein](/source/Aurel_Stein) suggested that this was the location of the "[Stone Tower](/source/Stone_Tower_(Ptolemy))" that [Ptolemy](/source/Ptolemy) in his famous treatise [*Geography*](/source/Geography_(Ptolemy)) wrote as the place where caravans from the Chinese and Roman Empires met and exchanged goods.[2][3] Other scholars, however, disagree with this identification, though it remains one of four most probable sites for the Stone Tower.[4][5]

## Population

‹ The [template](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template) *[Historical populations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Historical_populations)* is being [considered for merging](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2026_June_24#Template:Infobox_demographics). ›

Historical population Year Pop. ±% p.a. 2009 4,726 — 2021 6,421 +2.59% Note: resident population; Sources:[1][6]

In the [Book of Han](/source/Book_of_Han) (2nd century AD), the population of this town, situated in the Alai Valley, is recorded at the time as 1,030.[7]

Many [Pamir Kyrgyz](/source/Little_Pamir) have resettled from [Afghanistan](/source/Afghanistan) to Daroot-Korgon in the 21st century, straining the village's resources.[8]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-pop21_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-pop21_1-1) ["Population of regions, districts, towns, urban-type settlements, rural communities and villages of Kyrgyz Republic"](http://www.stat.kg/ru/statistics/download/operational/825/) (XLS) (in Russian). National Statistics Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic. 2021. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20211110033419/http://www.stat.kg/ru/statistics/download/operational/825/) from the original on 10 November 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** John E. Hill, Through the Jade Gate,2015, Appendix E. quoting Stein(1932), pp 22-23 and Stein(1928), vol II, pp-847-850. Hill's extract does not explain Stein's reasons. If this is true the route east to [Kashgar](/source/Kashgar) is obvious. The route west would have gone about 25 miles south up the Altyn River and down a 2000-foot slope to the Tadjik border post at Altyn Mazar ('Golden Shrine'). It would follow the Muksu 55 miles west to its junction with the Kyzyl-Suu. It would then follow the [Vakhsh River](/source/Vakhsh_River) about 140 miles west-southwest until the country becomes flat and then southwest to [Balkh](/source/Balkh). Alternatively the route could have followed the Kyzyl-Suu west until its junction with the Muksu. The hill above Altyn Mazar looks difficult. but if the Kyzyl-Suu route were used there would be no reason for Daroot-Korgan to be a landmark, unless it was some kind of border post.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Stein, Aurel (1928). *Innermost Asia: Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia, Kansu, and Eastern Īrān Carried Out and Described under the Orders of H.M. Indian Government (4 Volumes)*. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 847–51 (Vol 2).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Dean, Riaz (2022). *The Stone Tower: Ptolemy, the Silk Road, and a 2,000-Year-Old Riddle*. Delhi: Penguin Viking. pp. 131, 134 (Map 4), 164–66. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0670093625](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0670093625).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Dean, Riaz (2015). "The Location of Ptolemy's Stone Tower: the Case for Sulaiman-Too in Osh". *The Silk Road*. **13**: 77.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-census09_6-0)** ["2009 population and housing census of the Kyrgyz Republic. Book III. Osh Region"](http://www.stat.kg/media/files/8ae697b8-c5ba-4688-8c54-cbc467fe8182.pdf) (PDF) (in Russian). National Statistics Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic. 2010. p. 220.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Hulsewe and Loewe, A. F. P. and M. A. N. (1979). *China in Central Asia, the Early Stage: 125 bc–ad 23. Leiden: Brill*. Leiden: Brill. pp. 138, fn 355. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-9004058842](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-9004058842).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [*Памирские кыргызы: исчезающий народ | АЗИЯ 360°*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apm-xFFKT8Y) [*Pamir Kyrgyz: A disappearing people | Asia 360°*] (in Russian and Kyrgyz). Настоящее Время. Док. 31 August 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.

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