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Tajikistan Tajikistan arboretum

Botanical garden Dushanbe

Soman · CC BY-SA 3.0

11% trees around it and 126 species recorded.

28Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km11%
  • wild within 10 km48%
  • species recorded126
  • Altitude873 m

The forest around

11% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 19%Grassland 3%Water 4%Bare ground 6%Cropland 2%Built-up 66%Trees 10%Grassland 27%Water 3%Bare ground 6%Cropland 5%Built-up 49%Trees 5%Grassland 43%Water 0%Bare ground 3%Cropland 10%Built-up 39%Trees 3%Grassland 41%Water 0%Bare ground 2%Cropland 22%Built-up 32%11%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km19%
  • 1–3 km10%
  • 3–6 km5%
  • 6–10 km3%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees10%
  • Grassland27%
  • Water3%
  • Bare ground6%
  • Cropland5%
  • Built-up49%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

126 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Common barley
Common barleyHordeum vulgare2 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Field Bindweed
Field BindweedConvolvulus arvensis2 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Groundsel
GroundselSenecio vulgaris2 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Large field Speedwell
Large field SpeedwellVeronica persica2 recordsStrobilomyces · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common dandelion
Common dandelionTaraxacum officinale2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Vicia lensVicia lens2 records

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

28out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 11%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 48%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 126Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 873 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in October.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan5°-4°36 mm
  2. Feb7°-3°52 mm
  3. Mar14°2°52 mm
  4. Apr20°8°52 mm
  5. May26°13°31 mm
  6. Jun32°18°11 mm
  7. Jul35°20°2 mm
  8. Aug34°19°1 mm
  9. Sep28°14°2 mm
  10. Oct20°8°11 mm
  11. Nov12°2°33 mm
  12. Dec6°-3°35 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Botanical garden Dushanbe.

Botanical garden

Botanical garden Dushanbe is an arboretum in Tajikistan, 873 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 11% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 48% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

126 species have been recorded around it: 6 plants, 0 fungi, 119 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common barley, Field Bindweed and Groundsel.

The best time to walk is in October.

TJ-Botanical Garden, Dushanbe (4)
Soman · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • корхонаи комуникатсияи вохиди давлатии автобуси №1 Тамингохcampsite · 2.3 km · 1 within 10 km
  • меҳмонхона ОРИЁplace to stay · 0.9 km · 120 within 10 km
  • Dushanbenearest town · 7.6 km in a straight line
  • Dushanbe International Airport (DYU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 8 km in a straight lineCar hire in SamarkandDiscover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Botanical garden Dushanbe seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmLuchob river
  • 10named and notable trees within 6 kmЛАГЕР, дарахт, арча and 7 more
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 20shelters and huts within 6 kmКохи Сомон, Беседка and 18 more
  • 5viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmDAAD Information Centre
  • 41car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmкорхонаи комуникатсияи вохиди давлатии автобуси №1 Тамингох
  • 120places to stay within 10 kmмеҳмонхона ОРИЁ, Гостевой дом Фуркат, Hamsafar Travel: office & guest house and 117 more
  • 117restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Botanical garden Dushanbe.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Gora Takhtakhanym1,219 m · 17 kmGora Khatif1,399 m · 17 kmGora Chili-Kak2,678 m · 18 kmMushteppa3,012 m · 19 kmKŭhi Kurmishkhona2,155 m · 22 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Dushanbe ObservatoryBortle 8 · 4.1 kmGissar ObservatoryBortle 5 · 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Varzob71 kmLuchob42 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Botanical Gardens - panoramio
Zack Knowles · CC BY-SA 3.0
Botanical gardens 2 - panoramio
Zack Knowles · CC BY-SA 3.0
Botanical gardens 5 - panoramio
Шухрат Саъдиев · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Botanical garden Dushanbe

Tajikistan

  • 28Forestyas Score
  • 11%Trees
  • 48%Wild
  • 126Species

Tashkent botanical garden

Uzbekistan · 308 km

  • 29Forestyas Score
  • 12%Trees
  • 16%Wild
  • 142Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q14324727) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species21,285 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Darkskyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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