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Zorkul
Zorkul. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Zorkul (Dari: زارکول; Pashto: زارکول; Tajik: Зоркӯл) is a lake in the Pamir Mountains that runs along the border between the Wakhan District in Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan and the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region of Tajikistan. It is part of both the Wakhan National Park of Afghanistan and the Tajik National Park.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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