Shighnan

This article is about the region. For other uses, see Shughni (disambiguation).

Shighnan (also Shignan, Shugnan, Shughnan, Khughnan in the local language) (Persian:شغنان‎‎) is an historic region whose name today may also refer to a town and a district in Badakhshan Province in the mountainous northeast of Afghanistan and also a district in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan. The administrative center of the Shighnan District of Afghanistan is called Qaleh Barpanjeh (قلعه برپنجه). The administrative center of the Shughnon District of Tajikistan is called Khorogh.