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Tajikistan

Tajikistan is a landlocked country on the ancient Silk Road in . The nation's majority culture is non-Turkic, unlike its neighbors to the north and west and east.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Dushanbe and Khatlon.

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, the capital of Tajikistan, 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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Region, one of the four provinces of Tajikistan, is the most populous of the four first-level administrative regions in the country. It is situated in the southwest of the country, between the Hisor Range in the north and the river in the south…

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is a vibrant, cosmopolitan city, and is Tajikistan's second-largest city. is a cultural hub for the western portion of the .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Pamirs and Karategin.

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The Pamir mountains, or or Pamir Knot, is a large region of high ground at the junction of several other mountain ranges of which the best-known is the .

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is the central province of Tajikistan, home to the capital. It is now known as the Rasht Valley.

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The Tajik portion of the is in the extreme north of the country. The whole valley, both this part and the parts in other countries, is on the main route of the old Silk Road route between and .

The is a region in west-central Tajikistan. Zarafshan is a Persian word meaning "spreader of gold", and is named for the river that carves out the valley.

Tajikistan

Latitude of center
38.788° or 38° 47′ 17″ north
Longitude of center
71.1035° or 71° 6′ 13″ east
Population
7,220,000
Area
143,100 km² (55,251 miles²)
Elevation
3,461 metres (11,355 feet)
Capital
Currency
Somoni (TJS)
Phone code
.tj
Internet domain
992
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424314276
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
1220409
Wiki­data ID
Q863
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Tajikistan” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Таџьықьсҭан”
  • Abkhazian: “Ҭаџьыкисҭан”
  • Achinese: “Tajikistan”
  • Adyghe: “Таджикистан”
  • Afrikaans: “Tadjikistan”
  • Akan: “Tajikistan”
  • Albanian: “Taxhikistan”
  • Albanian: “Taxhikistani”
  • Amharic: “ታጂኪስታን”
  • Amharic: “ታጃኪስታን”
  • Amis: “Tajikistan”
  • Angika: “ताजिकिस्तान”
  • Arabic: “تاجيكستان”
  • Arabic: “تاجیکستان”
  • Arabic: “طاجكستان”
  • Arabic: “طاجيكستان”
  • Aragonese: “Tachiquistán”
  • Armenian: “Տաճիկստան”
  • Armenian: “Տաջիկստան”
  • Arpitan: “Tadj·iquistan”
  • Arpitan: “Tadjiquistan”
  • Assamese: “তাজিকিস্তান”
  • Asturian: “Taxiquistán”
  • Atayal: “Tajikistan”
  • Avaric: “Тажикистан”
  • Awadhi: “ताजिकिस्तान”
  • Aymara: “Tayiksuyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tacikistan”
  • Balinese: “Tajikistan”
  • Bambara: “Tajikisitani”
  • Bashkir: “Тажикстан”
  • Basque: “Tajikistan”
  • Bavarian: “Tadschikistan”
  • Belarusian: “Таджыкістан”
  • Bengali: “তাজিকিস্তান”
  • Betawi: “Tajikistan”
  • Bhojpuri: “ताजिकिस्तान”
  • Bishnupriya: “তাজিকিস্তান”
  • Bislama: “Tajikistan”
  • Bosnian: “Tadžikistan”
  • Brahui: “Tájikistán”
  • Breton: “Tadjikistan”
  • Buginese: “Tajikistan”
  • Buginese: “ᨈᨍᨗᨀᨗᨔᨈᨊ”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Таджикистан”
  • Bulgarian: “Таджикистан”
  • Burmese: “တာဂျစ်ကစ္စတန်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “တာဂျီကစ္စတန်”
  • Catalan: “El Tadjikistan”
  • Catalan: “República de Tadjikistan”
  • Catalan: “Tadjikistan”
  • Cebuano: “Tajikistan”
  • Cebuano: “Tayikistan”
  • Central Bikol: “Tadyikistan”
  • Central Bikol: “Tayikistan”
  • Central Kurdish: “تاجیکستان”
  • Chavacano: “Tayikistan”
  • Chechen: “Таджикистан”
  • Cherokee: “ᏔᏥᎩᏍᏔᏂ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏔᏥᎩᏍᏕᏂ”
  • Chinese: “Tǎjíkèsītǎn”
  • Chinese: “Tajikistan”
  • Chinese: “塔吉克”
  • Chinese: “塔吉克斯坦 / 塔吉克”
  • Chinese: “塔吉克斯坦”
  • Church Slavic: “Таджикистанъ”
  • Chuvash: “Таджикистан”
  • Cornish: “Pow Tajik”
  • Corsican: “Tagicchistanu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tacikistan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tajikístan”
  • Croatian: “Tadžikistan”
  • Czech: “Tádžikistán”
  • Dagbani: “Tajikistan”
  • Danish: “Tadsjikistan”
  • Danish: “Tajikistan”
  • Dhivehi: “ތަޖިކިސްތާން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tacikıstan”
  • Dotyali: “ताजिकिस्तान”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Tadzjikistan”
  • Dutch: “Tadzjikistan”
  • Dutch: “TJ”
  • Dutch: “TJK”
  • Dzongkha: “ཏ་ཇག་ཀིསི་ཏཱན་”
  • Dzongkha: “ཏ་ཇིག་གི་སཏཱན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Таджикистан”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاجيكيستان”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “طاجكستان”
  • Erzya: “Таджикистан”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Taĝikio”
  • Esperanto: “Taĝikio”
  • Esperanto: “Taĝikistano”
  • Esperanto: “Taĝikujo”
  • Esperanto: “TJ”
  • Estonian: “TadĪikistan”
  • Estonian: “Tadžikistan”
  • Estonian: “Tadžikistani Vabariik”
  • Ewe: “Tajikistan nutome”
  • Ewe: “Tajikistan”
  • Extremaduran: “Tayiquistán”
  • Faroese: “Tadsjikistan”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tajikistan”
  • Finnish: “Tadzikistan”
  • Finnish: “Tadžikistan”
  • Finnish: “Tadžikistanin tasavalta”
  • French: “la République du Tadjikistan”
  • French: “Tadjikistan”
  • French: “TJ”
  • Fulah: “Tajikistaan”
  • Fulah: “Tajikistan”
  • Gagauz: “Tacikistan”
  • Galician: “República de Tadjiikistán”
  • Galician: “República de Taxiquistán”
  • Galician: “Tadjiikistán”
  • Galician: “Taxiquistán”
  • Ganda: “Tajikisitaani”
  • Georgian: “ტაჯიკეთი”
  • German: “Tadschikistan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tajikistan”
  • Gilaki: “تاجيکستان”
  • Goan Konkani: “Tajikistan”
  • Goan Konkani: “ताजिकिस्तान”
  • Greek: “Τατζικιστάν”
  • Guarani: “Tajikitã”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Tadjikistan”
  • Gujarati: “તાજિકિસ્તાન”
  • Gujarati: “તાજીકિસ્તાન”
  • Haitian: “Tadjikistan”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tajikistan”
  • Hausa: “Tajikistan”
  • Hawaiian: “Takisitana”
  • Hebrew: “טאג’יקיסטן”
  • Hebrew: “טג’יקיסטאן”
  • Hebrew: “טג׳יקיסטאן”
  • Hebrew: “טג’יקיסטן”
  • Hebrew: “טגיקיסטן”
  • Hebrew: “תאג’יכיסתאן”
  • Hindi: “तजिकिस्तान”
  • Hindi: “ताजिकिस्तान”
  • Hindi: “ताज़िकिस्तान”
  • Hindi: “ताजीकिस्तान”
  • Hungarian: “Tádzsik Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Tadzsikisztán”
  • Hungarian: “Tádzsikisztán”
  • Icelandic: “Tadjíkistan”
  • Icelandic: “Tadsíkistan”
  • Icelandic: “Tadsjikistan”
  • Ido: “Tajikistan”
  • Igbo: “Tajikistan”
  • Iloko: “Tayikistan”
  • Inari Sami: “Tadžikistan täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Tadžikistan”
  • Indonesian: “Tajikistan”
  • Interlingua: “Tadzhikistan”
  • Interlingua: “Tajikistan”
  • Interlingue: “Tadjikistan”
  • Irish: “an Táidsíceastáin”
  • Irish: “An Táidsíceastáin”
  • Italian: “Repubblica del Tagikistan”
  • Italian: “Tagikistan”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Tajikistan”
  • Japanese: “タジキスタン”
  • Japanese: “タジキスタン共和国”
  • Japanese: “タジク”
  • Javanese: “Tajikistan”
  • Kabardian: “Таджыкыстэн”
  • Kabiyè: “Tajikistanii”
  • Kabyle: “Tagduda n Ṭaǧikstan”
  • Kabyle: “Ṭaǧikstan”
  • Kabyle: “Ṭajikstan”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Tajikistan”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tajikistani”
  • Kalmyk: “Тоҗгудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ತಜಾಕಿಸ್ಥಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ತಜಿಕಿಸ್ತಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tajikstan”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tájikstan”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Таджикистан”
  • Kashmiri: “تاجکِستان”
  • Kashmiri: “تاجیکِستان”
  • Kashubian: “Tadżikistan”
  • Kazakh: “TJK”
  • Kazakh: “Тәжікстан Республикасы”
  • Kazakh: “Тәжікстан”
  • Khmer: “តាជីគីស្ថាន”
  • Khmer: “តាហ្ស៊ីគីស្ថាន”
  • Kikuyu: “Tajikistan”
  • Kikuyu: “Tajikistani”
  • Kinaray-A: “Tadzikistan”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Tajikisitani”
  • Kirghiz: “Тажикстан Республикасы”
  • Kirghiz: “Тажикстан”
  • Komering: “Tajikistan”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Таджикистан”
  • Komi: “Таджикистан”
  • Kongo: “Tajikistan”
  • Korean: “따쥐끼스딴”
  • Korean: “따쥐끼스딴공화국”
  • Korean: “타지크”
  • Korean: “타지크스탄”
  • Korean: “타지키스탄”
  • Kurdish: “Tacîkistan”
  • Kurdish: “تاجیکستان”
  • Ladin: “Tagichistan”
  • Ladino: “Tacikistan”
  • Ladino: “Tadjikistan”
  • Lao: “ທາຈິກິດສະຖານ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດທາຈິກິດສະຖານ”
  • Latin: “Tadicistania”
  • Latin: “Tadzikistania”
  • Latvian: “Tadžikistāna”
  • Lezghian: “Таджикистан”
  • Lezghian: “Тажикистан”
  • Ligurian: “Tagikistàn”
  • Ligurian: “Tajikistan”
  • Limburgan: “Tadzjikistan”
  • Lingala: “Tazikisitá”
  • Lingala: “Tazikistáni”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tadjicistan”
  • Literary Chinese: “塔吉克”
  • Literary Chinese: “塔吉克斯坦”
  • Lithuanian: “Tadžikija”
  • Lithuanian: “Tadžikistanas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tadžikistas”
  • Livvi: “Tadžikistuanu”
  • Lombard: “Tagikistan”
  • Low German: “Tadschikistan”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Tadźikistan”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Tadžikistan”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Tazikisita”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tadjikistan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tadschikistan”
  • Macedonian: “Таџикистан”
  • Madurese: “Tajikistan”
  • Maithili: “ताजिकिस्तान”
  • Malagasy: “Tajikistan”
  • Malagasy: “Tajikistana”
  • Malagasy: “Tajikistàna”
  • Malay: “Tajikistan”
  • Malayalam: “താജിക്കിസ്ഥാൻ”
  • Maltese: “it-Taġikistan”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tat-Taġikistan”
  • Maltese: “Taġikistan”
  • Manipuri: “ꯇꯥꯖꯤꯀꯤꯁ꯭ꯇꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “y Tajikistaan”
  • Manx: “Yn Tajikistaan”
  • Maori: “Tahikitāna”
  • Marathi: “ताजिकिस्तान”
  • Mazanderani: “تاجیک مملکت”
  • Mazanderani: “تاجیک‌ئون”
  • Mazanderani: “تاجیکئون”
  • Mazanderani: “تاجیکستان”
  • Mazanderani: “تاجیکستون”
  • Mazanderani: “تاجیکسون”
  • Mazanderani: “تاجیکسّون”
  • Mazanderani: “تاجیکون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tajikistan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tajikistan”
  • Minangkabau: “Tajikistan”
  • Mingrelian: “ტაჯიკეთი”
  • Mingrelian: “ტაჯიკეთიშ რესპუბლიკა”
  • Mirandese: “Tadjiquiston”
  • Moksha: “Таджыкистан”
  • Mongolian: “Тажикистан”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “طادجيكيستان”
  • Nauru: “Tadjikitan”
  • Navajo: “Dziłtah Hóteelnii Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “ताजिकिस्तान”
  • Newari: “ताजिकिस्तान”
  • North Ndebele: “Tajikistan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tadjikistaan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tadjikistan”
  • Northern Luri: “تاجیکستان”
  • Northern Sami: “Tažikistan dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Tažikistan”
  • Northern Sami: “Tažikistana dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Tažikistána dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Tadsjikistan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tadsjikistan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tadsjikistan”
  • Norwegian: “Tadsjikistan”
  • Novial: “Tajikistan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tatgiquistan”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܛܐܓܝܩܣܛܐܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tacgicaland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tacgicalond”
  • Oriya: “ତାଜାକିସ୍ଥାନ”
  • Oriya: “ତାଜିକିସ୍ତାନ”
  • Oriya: “ତାଜିକିସ୍ଥାନ୍”
  • Oromo: “Taajaakistaan”
  • Ossetian: “Таджикистан”
  • Pali: “ताजिकिस्थान”
  • Pampanga: “Tádzikistan”
  • Pampanga: “Taikistan”
  • Pampanga: “Tajikistan”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਜਿਕਿਸਤਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Tajikistan”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Datschikischtaan”
  • Persian: “تاجیکستان”
  • Piemontese: “Tagikistan”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Tajikistaan”
  • Polish: “Tadżykistan”
  • Portuguese: “Tadjiquistão”
  • Portuguese: “Tajiquistão”
  • Pushto: “تاجکستان”
  • Pushto: “تاجيکستان”
  • Quechua: “Tayikistán”
  • Quechua: “Tayiksuyu”
  • Romanian: “Tadjikistan”
  • Romanian: “Tajikistan”
  • Romansh: “Tadschikistan”
  • Rundi: “Tajikisitani”
  • Russia Buriat: “Таджикистан”
  • Russia Buriat: “Тажикистан”
  • Russian: “Республика Таджикистан”
  • Russian: “РТ”
  • Russian: “Таджикистан”
  • Rusyn: “Таджікістан”
  • Sakizaya: “Tajikistan”
  • Samoan: “Tajikistan”
  • Samoan: “Tasikisitani”
  • Samogitian: “Tadžikistans”
  • Sango: “Taazikiistäan”
  • Sanskrit: “ताजिकिस्थान”
  • Sanskrit: “ताजिकिस्थानम्”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱟᱡᱤᱠᱤᱥᱛᱟᱱ”
  • Saraiki: “تاجکستان”
  • Sardinian: “Tagikistan”
  • Sardinian: “Tagikistàn”
  • Scots: “Tajikistan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Taidigeastàn”
  • Serbian: “Tadžikistan”
  • Serbian: “Таџикистан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tadžikistan”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းတႃႇၵျီႇၵီႇသတၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Tajikistan”
  • Sicilian: “Tagikistan”
  • Silesian: “Tadżykistůn”
  • Sindhi: “تاجڪستان”
  • Sinhala: “ටජිකිස්තානය”
  • Sinhala: “ටජිකිස්ථානය”
  • Sinhala: “ටජිකිස්ථාන්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tadžikistaan tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tadžikistaan”
  • Slovak: “Tadžická republika”
  • Slovak: “Tadžikistan”
  • Slovenian: “Tadžikistan”
  • Somali: “Tadsjikistan”
  • Somali: “Tajikistan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تاجیکیستان”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Tayikistan”
  • Spanish: “República de Tayikistán”
  • Spanish: “Tajikistan”
  • Spanish: “Tajikistán”
  • Spanish: “Tayikistan”
  • Spanish: “Tayikistán”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵟⴰⵊⵉⴽⵉⵙⵜⴰⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Tajikistan”
  • Swahili: “Tajikistan”
  • Swahili: “Tajikistani”
  • Swati: “IThajiki”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Tadzjikistan”
  • Swedish: “Tadzjikistan”
  • Swiss German: “Tadschikistan”
  • Sylheti: “ꠔꠣꠎꠤꠇꠤꠍ꠆ꠔꠣꠘ”
  • Tagalog: “Tayikistan”
  • Tajik: “Çumhuriji Toçikiston”
  • Tajik: “Jumhurii Tojikiston”
  • Tajik: “Tâjikistân”
  • Tajik: “Tājikistān”
  • Tajik: “tj”
  • Tajik: “Tocikiston”
  • Tajik: “Toçikiston”
  • Tajik: “Tojikiston”
  • Tajik: “Тоҷикистон”
  • Tajik: “тҷ”
  • Tajik: “тҷк”
  • Tajik: “ҶТ”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон”
  • Talysh: “Tacikistan”
  • Talysh: “Točikistan”
  • Tamil: “தஜிகிஸ்தான்”
  • Taroko: “Tajikistan”
  • Tatar: “Таҗикстан”
  • Telugu: “టాజీకిస్తాన్”
  • Telugu: “తజికిస్తాన్”
  • Tetum: “Tajikistaun”
  • Thai: “ทาจิกิสถาน”
  • Thai: “ประเทศทาจิกิสถาน”
  • Tibetan: “ཐ་ཇི་ཁེ་སི་ཏན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ታጃኪስታን”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tasikitani”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tadschikistan”
  • Tumbuka: “Tajikistan”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “طاجيكستان”
  • Turkish: “Tacikistan”
  • Turkmen: “Täjigistan”
  • Udmurt: “Таджикистан”
  • Uighur: “تاجىكىستان”
  • Ukrainian: “Таджикистан”
  • Ukrainian: “Таджикістан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tadźikistan”
  • Urdu: “تاجکستان”
  • Uzbek: “Tojikiston”
  • Venetian: “Tajìkistan”
  • Venetian: “Tazìkistan”
  • Veps: “Tadžikistan”
  • Vietnamese: “Tajikistan”
  • Vietnamese: “Tát-gi-ki-xtan (Tajikistan)”
  • Vietnamese: “Tát-gi-ki-xtan”
  • Vlaams: “Tadzjikistan”
  • Vlax Romani: “Tajikistan”
  • Volapük: “Tacikistän”
  • Võro: “Tadžikistan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tayikistan”
  • Welsh: “Tajicistan”
  • Welsh: “Tajikistan”
  • Western Armenian: “Տաճիկիստան”
  • Western Balochi: “تاجیکستان”
  • Western Frisian: “Tadzjikistan”
  • Western Panjabi: “تاجکستان”
  • Wolof: “Tajikistaan”
  • Wolof: “Tajikistaŋ”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔吉克斯坦”
  • Yakut: “Тадьикистаан”
  • Yiddish: “טאדזשיקיסטאן”
  • Yoruba: “Tajikistan”
  • Yoruba: “Takisitani”
  • Yue Chinese: “塔吉克”
  • Zeeuws: “Tadzjikistan”
  • Zhuang: “Daz-giz-gwz-swh-danj”
  • Zhuang: “Dazgizgwzswhdanj”
  • Zhuang: “Tajikistan”
  • Zulu: “i-Tajikistan”
  • “ma Tosiki”
  • “Tadžikistan”
  • “Tadžikistans”
  • “Tayikistan”
  • “Tayikistan Axkayotl”
  • “TJ”
  • “TJK”
  • “ताजिकिस्तान”

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