Qala Wust
village
Qala Wust is located in Afghanistan
Qala Wust
Qala Wust
Location in Afghanistan
Coordinates: 36°58′19″N 72°50′48″E / 36.97194°N 72.84667°E / 36.97194; 72.84667Coordinates: 36°58′19″N 72°50′48″E / 36.97194°N 72.84667°E / 36.97194; 72.84667
Country Afghanistan
ProvinceBadakhshan Province
Time zone+ 4.30

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]

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  1. ^ "qala/kala/etc. means "fort", stronghold" in Iranian languages
  2. ^ "NGA GeoName Database". National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on June 8, 2008. (one has to enter the search term)
  3. ^ a b "Himalaje-Karakorum", by Kazimierz Saysse-Tobiczyk, 138, 148
  4. ^ The American Alpine Journal, Volume 15, p. 220
  5. ^ The Himalayan journal, Volume 32, p. 48
  6. ^ Geology of Central Badakhshan and Surrounding Countries, 1975, Istituto di Geologia, Universita de Milano (Italy), p. 300