More than 90 per cent mountainous, with over half the country above 3,000 m.
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Tajikistan
Republic of Tajikistan ยท ะขะฐะดะถะธะบะธััะฐะฝ
Asia
ยท Central Asia
0Population
143.1Kkmยฒ of land
$871GDP / person
DushanbeCapital
- ISO codes
- TJ ยท TJK
- Density
- 65 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Russian, Tajik
- Currency
- Tajikistani somoni (TJS)
- Dial code
- +992
- Internet domain
- .tj
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 38.2000ยฐ N, 72.5870ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Tadzhik
- UN region
- Central Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $8.12B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Tajikistan stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
96th
of 242 ยท 0.12% of world population
Land area
97th
of 242 ยท 0.10% of world land
GDP per person
215th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
138th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Tajikistan
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 9,321,018 people, the 96th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.12 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 143,100 kmยฒ, making it the 97th largest country here - about 4.7 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 65 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Dushanbe, at 38.56ยฐ N, 68.77ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,086,244.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Afghanistan, China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Dushanbe.
The currency is the Tajikistani somoni (TJS, symbol ะ ะ).
Has 2 official languages: Russian and Tajik.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Dushanbe
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UTC+05:00
Cities
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Dushanbe
Tadzhikistan Territories
38.5600ยฐ N, 68.7739ยฐ E
1.09M
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Tajikistan.