Official Name: | Qala Wust | ||||||||||
Settlement Type: | village | ||||||||||
Pushpin Map: | Afghanistan | ||||||||||
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 | ||||||||||
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom | ||||||||||
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Afghanistan | ||||||||||
Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||||||
Timezone: | + 4.30 | ||||||||||
Coordinates: | 36.9719°N 72.8467°W | ||||||||||
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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]