This point shapefile contains the locations of cities and towns in the Kulob Oblast area of Tajikistan. Kulob Oblast (also Kulyab Oblast from Russian spelling) was an administrative subdivision in Tajikistan during the Soviet period (Tajik SSR). In 1992 it was merged with the Qurghonteppa (Kurgan-Tyube) Oblast to create Khatlon Province. The city of Kulob (Kulyab) was the capital of the oblast. This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. Cities and Towns with Populations: Kulob Oblast, Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, 1989. Spatial data produced at the Australian Centre of the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network under the direction of Lawrence W. Crissman. Copyright Griffith University. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/hh855qv0247.