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Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east and is narrowly separated from Pakistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor. It has a population of over 10.7 million people.

The territory was previously home to cultures of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, including the Oxus civilization in west, with the Indo-Iranians arriving during the Andronovo culture. Parts of country were part of the Sogdian and Bactrian civilizations, and was ruled by those including the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great, the Greco-Bactrians, the Kushans, the Kidarites and Hephthalites, the First Turkic Khaganate, the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, the Samanid Empire, the Kara-Khanids, Seljuks, Khwarazmians, the Mongols, Timurids and Khanate of Bukhara. The region was later conquered by the Russian Empire, before becoming part of the Soviet Union. Within the Soviet Union, the country's borders were drawn when it was part of Uzbekistan as an autonomous republic before becoming a constituent republic of the Soviet Union on 5 December 1929. (Full article...)

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The coat of arms of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic c. 1929. "Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic" is written in Tajik Latin, Tajik Arabic and Russian Cyrillic

The Tajik language has been written in three alphabets over the course of its history: the Perso-Arabic, Latin and nowadays Cyrillic script.

The use of a specific alphabet generally corresponds with stages in history, with Arabic being used first for most of the time, followed by Latin, as a result of the Soviet takeover, for a short period and then Cyrillic, which remains the most widely used alphabet in Tajikistan. The Bukhori dialect spoken by Bukharan Jews traditionally used the Hebrew alphabet, but today is written using the Cyrillic variant. (Full article...)

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... costing $3.5 million to construct and at a height of 165 m (541 ft), the Dushanbe Flagpole, first flown in 2011 is the tallest free-standing flagpole in the world.

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Image 1A Sogdian wall mural from the ruins of an aristocratic home in the archaeological site of Panjakent, showing Sogdian men playing a board game, 8th century (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 2A traditional Tajik wedding. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 3Map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 42001 map of Tajikistan including road and rail network (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 5Painted clay and alabaster head of a Zoroastrian priest wearing a distinctive Bactrian-style headdress, Takhti-Sangin, Tajikistan, Greco-Bactrian kingdom, 3rd-2nd century BC. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 6A monument in Dushanbe to Tajik writers. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 7Chinese workers build a bridge on the road between Dushanbe and Khujand, 2007 (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 8CIA map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 9Ambassador to the Tang dynasty, coming from Kumedh (胡密丹), Tajikistan. Wanghuitu (王会图) circa 650 CE. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 10Protests in Dushanbe, February 1990 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 11Dushanbe International Airport (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 12Uzbek Spetsnaz soldiers during the Civil War, 1992 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 13Sculpture of a woman from Takht-i Sangin, 3rd-2nd century BCE, Tajikistan. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 14Samanid empire (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 15Pamir Highway Route (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 16Asia in 500, showing the Hepthalite Khanate at its greatest extent (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 17A Tajik feast. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 18A family celebrating Eid in Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 19A Tajik women in traditional dress. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 20Soviet negotiations with basmachi, 1921 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 21Dushanbe railway station (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 22Flag of the Tajik SSR (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 23A man makes plov, the national dish of Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)

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