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Tajikistan
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39° N / 71° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Dushanbe
- Population
- 10,590,927 2024
- Area
- 143,100 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Russian, Tajik
- Currency
- Tajikistani somoni (TJS)
- Geography
- Landlocked
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Tajikistan
Tajikistan (Tajik: Тоҷикистон Tojikiston) is a landlocked country on the ancient Silk Road in Central Asia. The nation's majority culture is non-Turkic, unlike its neighbors to the north and west and east. Tajikistan is the poorest of the former Soviet states, owing to its remote geography and a devastating civil war that wracked the country from 1992 until 1997.
Food & everyday culture
Qurutob (Қурутоб) is a traditional dish that is still eaten with hands from a communal plate. Vegetables and flaky pastry in a yogurt-like sauce made from sour dried cheese (qurut), it is sometimes described as "bread salad". Before serving the dish is topped with onions fried in oil until golden and other fried vegetables. No meat is added.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-01. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Central Asia
- Calling code
- +992
- Internet domain
- .tj
- Land border codes
- AFG, CHN, KGZ, UZB
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .tj. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.