Dushanbe

Dushanbe, the capital of , is a beautiful city of stark contrasts between the old and the new. Old Soviet-era buildings stand adjacent to new massive state buildings and monuments, and there always seems to be a tension between the demolition of the old and the construction of the new.
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  • City with 1,180,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 767 metres (2,516 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code DYU
  • Description: capital of Tajikistan
  • Also known as
    “Djuschambe”
    “Dushambe”
    “Dyushambe”
    “Jushambe”
    “Stalinabad”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Palace of Nations and Ayni Opera and Ballet Theatre.

The Palace of the Nation is the official residence of the President of Tajikistan.

Theater building
Photo: Зинҳор Насрӣ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, formerly known as the…

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The is a free–standing flagpole…

Dushanbe

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Latitude
38.5767° or 38° 34′ 36″ north
Longitude
68.7854° or 68° 47′ 8″ east
UN/LOCODE
TJ DYU
Open location code
8JCCHQGP+M5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27547977
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1221874
Wiki­data ID
Q9365

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Dushanbe” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Душанбе”
  • Achinese: “Dushanbe”
  • Afrikaans: “Doesjanbe”
  • Albanian: “Dushanbe”
  • Amharic: “ዱሻንቤ”
  • Arabic: “دوشب”
  • Arabic: “دوشنبة”
  • Arabic: “دوشنبه”
  • Aragonese: “Duixanbé”
  • Aragonese: “Duxanbe”
  • Armenian: “Դուշանբե”
  • Asturian: “Duxambé”
  • Avaric: “Душанбе”
  • Azerbaijani: “Düşənbə”
  • Balinese: “Dushanbé”
  • Bashkir: “Дүшәнбе”
  • Basque: “Dushanbe”
  • Basque: “Duxanbe”
  • Belarusian: “Дзюшанбе”
  • Belarusian: “Дзюшанбэ”
  • Belarusian: “Душанбэ”
  • Belarusian: “Сталінабад”
  • Bengali: “দুশানবে”
  • Bengali: “দুশান্‌বে”
  • Bosnian: “Dušanbe”
  • Breton: “Douchanbe”
  • Bulgarian: “Душанбе”
  • Bulgarian: “Сталинабад”
  • Burmese: “ဒူရှန်ဘဲမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Diuixambé”
  • Catalan: “Duixanbe”
  • Catalan: “Duixanbé”
  • Catalan: “Stalinabad”
  • Cebuano: “Dushanbe”
  • Central Bikol: “Dushanbe”
  • Central Kurdish: “دووشەنبە”
  • Chechen: “Душанбе”
  • Chinese: “杜尚別”
  • Chinese: “杜尚别”
  • Chinese: “杜尚貝”
  • Church Slavic: “Доушанбє”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Duşanbe”
  • Croatian: “Dušanbe”
  • Czech: “Dušanbe”
  • Danish: “Dusjanbe”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Duşanbe”
  • Dutch: “Doesjanbe”
  • Eastern Mari: “Душанбе”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دوشنبه”
  • Erzya: “Душанбе ош”
  • Erzya: “Душанбе”
  • Esperanto: “Duŝanbeo”
  • Esperanto: “Duŝanbo”
  • Estonian: “Dušanbe”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Dushanbe”
  • Finnish: “Dušanbe”
  • French: “Douchanbé”
  • French: “Stalinabad”
  • Gagauz: “Duşanbe”
  • Galician: “Dushanbe”
  • Georgian: “დუშანბე”
  • German: “Duschanbe”
  • Greek: “Ντουσαμπέ”
  • Greek: “Ντουσάνμπε”
  • Guarani: “Dusambe”
  • Gujarati: “દુશંબે”
  • Haitian: “Douchanbe”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Dushanbe”
  • Hausa: “Dushanbe”
  • Hebrew: “דושנבה”
  • Hindi: “दुशान्बे”
  • Hindi: “दोशंबा”
  • Hungarian: “Dusanbe”
  • Icelandic: “Dúsjanbe”
  • Ido: “Dushanbe”
  • Iloko: “Dushanbe”
  • Inari Sami: “Dušanbe”
  • Indonesian: “Dushanbe”
  • Interlingua: “Dushanbe”
  • Interlingue: “Dushanbe”
  • Irish: “Dushanbe”
  • Italian: “Dušanbe”
  • Italian: “Dušhanbe”
  • Japanese: “ドゥシャンベ”
  • Javanese: “Dushanbe”
  • Kannada: “ದುಶಂಬೆ”
  • Kannada: “ದುಶಾಂಬೆ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Dushanbe”
  • Kazakh: “Душанбе қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Душанбе”
  • Kirghiz: “Душанбе”
  • Kirghiz: “Дүйшөмбү”
  • Kirghiz: “Сталинабад”
  • Komering: “Dushanbe”
  • Komi: “Душанбе”
  • Korean: “두샨베”
  • Kurdish: “Duşenbe”
  • Ladino: “Dushanbe”
  • Lao: “ດູຊານເບ”
  • Latin: “Dusanbe”
  • Latin: “Dušanbe”
  • Latvian: “Dušanbe”
  • Latvian: “Staļinabada”
  • Ligurian: “Duxanbé”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Duxanbe”
  • Lithuanian: “Dušanbė”
  • Livvi: “Dušanbe”
  • Lombard: “Dušanbe”
  • Luxembourgish: “Duschanbe”
  • Macedonian: “Душанбе”
  • Magahi: “दुशान्बे”
  • Maithili: “दुसान्बे”
  • Malay: “Dushanbe”
  • Malayalam: “ദുഷാൻബെ”
  • Maltese: “Dushanbe”
  • Marathi: “दुशांबे”
  • Mazanderani: “دوشنبه”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dushanbe”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dushanbe”
  • Minangkabau: “Dushanbe”
  • Mingrelian: “დუშანბე”
  • Moksha: “Душанбэ”
  • Mongolian: “Душанбе”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “دوشانبي”
  • Navajo: “Daʼiiniih Łání”
  • Nepali: “दुशान्वे”
  • Nepali: “दुसान्बे”
  • Northern Frisian: “Duschanbe”
  • Northern Luri: “دوشنبه”
  • Northern Sami: “Dušanbe”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dusjanbe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dusjanbe”
  • Norwegian: “Dusjanbe”
  • Novial: “Dushanbe”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Doshambe”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mōndæġburg”
  • Ossetian: “Душанбе”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “دوشنبه”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੁਸ਼ੰਬੇ”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੁਸ਼ਾਂਬੇ”
  • Papiamento: “Dusjanbe”
  • Persian: “دوشنبه”
  • Piemontese: “Dušanbe”
  • Polish: “Duszanbe”
  • Portuguese: “Duchambe”
  • Portuguese: “Dushanbe”
  • Portuguese: “Duxambé”
  • Pushto: “دوشنبه”
  • Romanian: “Dușanbe”
  • Russia Buriat: “Душанбе”
  • Russian: “Душанбе”
  • Russian: “Дюшамбе”
  • Russian: “Сталинабад”
  • Samogitian: “Došanbė”
  • Sardinian: “Dushanbe”
  • Scots: “Dushanbe”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dushanbe”
  • Serbian: “Душанбе”
  • Serbian: “Стаљинабад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dušanbe”
  • Shona: “Dushanbe”
  • Silesian: “Duszanbe”
  • Sindhi: “دوشنبي”
  • Sinhala: “ඩුශන්බි”
  • Sinhala: “ඩුෂන්බේ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Dušanbe”
  • Slovak: “Dušanbe”
  • Slovenian: “Dušanbe”
  • Slovenian: “Stalinabad”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دوشنبه (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دوشنبه”
  • Spanish: “Dusambe”
  • Spanish: “Dusambé”
  • Spanish: “Dushanbe”
  • Swahili: “Dushanbe”
  • Swedish: “Dusjanbe”
  • Tagalog: “Dusambe”
  • Tagalog: “Dushanbe”
  • Tajik: “Душанбе”
  • Tajik: “Сталинобод”
  • Talysh: “Dušənbe”
  • Talysh: “Duşənbə”
  • Tamil: “டுஷன்பே”
  • Tamil: “துசான்பே”
  • Tamil: “துஷாம்பே”
  • Tatar: “Düşänbe”
  • Tatar: “Дүшәнбе”
  • Telugu: “దుషాంబే”
  • Thai: “ดูชานเบ”
  • Tibetan: “དུ་ཤང་པེ།”
  • Tumbuka: “Dushanbe”
  • Turkish: “Duşanbe”
  • Turkmen: “Duşanbe”
  • Udmurt: “Душанбе”
  • Uighur: “دۈشەنبە”
  • Ukrainian: “Душанбе”
  • Ukrainian: “Дюшамбе”
  • Ukrainian: “Сталінабад”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Dušanbe”
  • Urdu: “دوشنبہ”
  • Uzbek: “Dushanbe”
  • Venetian: “Dušanbe”
  • Veps: “Dušanbe”
  • Vietnamese: “Dushanbe”
  • Vlaams: “Doesjanbe”
  • Volapük: “Dujanbe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dushanbe”
  • Welsh: “Dushanbe”
  • Western Armenian: “Տուշանպէ”
  • Western Frisian: “Doesjanbe”
  • Western Frisian: “Dûsjanbe”
  • Western Panjabi: “دوشنبہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “杜尚别”
  • Yakut: “Душанбе”
  • Yiddish: “דושאנבע”
  • Yoruba: “Dushanbe”
  • Yue Chinese: “杜尚別”
  • Zulu: “i-Dushanbe”

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