The Vakhsh gorge
The Vakhsh River narrows as it passes the town, and roads and buildings squeeze into the limited flat ground beside it, giving the map a strong diagonal axis.
Minimalist map poster · Tajikistan
38.3892° N / 69.3227° E
A mountain town on the Vakhsh River, where a narrow gorge ends in one of the tallest dams ever built





One city, five moods
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Pixel ekwan · 24 × 36″ print filePrint-sharp
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The map
Norak sits where the Vakhsh River cuts through the ranges of southern Tajikistan. From above, the town appears as a compact grid of Soviet-era blocks on a shelf of flat ground, closed in by steep ridges. The river runs along its edge in a tight, braided line, and the terrain contour lines stack close together almost everywhere around it.
The town grew up around the Nurek hydroelectric project, started in the 1960s. Its rock-fill dam, about 300 metres high, has long been listed among the tallest in the world. Upstream, the reservoir winds through the mountains as a long, branching body of water, which on a map looks more like a river valley filled to the brim than a lake.
A Norak map poster sets planned streets against wild terrain. The orderly housing districts, the road along the gorge and the pale shape of the reservoir give the print a clear structure, and the mountains supply the texture. It works well for anyone with a link to Tajikistan, to engineering, or to places shaped by one very large piece of infrastructure.
The Vakhsh River narrows as it passes the town, and roads and buildings squeeze into the limited flat ground beside it, giving the map a strong diagonal axis.
Above the dam, the Nurek reservoir fills a winding mountain valley, producing a long, irregular shape with side arms that reach into the surrounding ridges.
The residential districts were laid out for dam builders and their families, so the streets form regular blocks that contrast sharply with the folded landscape around them.
Make it yours
Add a date, a name or a line of your own, switch style, size or orientation.
Preview ededa low-resolution im watermark. Print im HD files erender iaan 300 DPI, dedaña ñan 7,200 × 10,800 px, ededa watermark.
Why Norak
For people who worked on the dam, grew up in the town or have family there, Norak is more than a name on a list of engineering records. A map of its streets and the river keeps that connection at the scale of daily life.
You can add a title, a subtitle such as a family name or a year, and the coordinates line, then pick Classic black & white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint or Sand. Blueprint fits the engineering story particularly well.
Oder poster Norak| Print size | Resolution | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
For comparison, the free preview is 900 px wide, watermarked and meant for screens. The HD files have up to 8× the resolution in each direction and print cleanly at full poster size.
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