Tajikistan

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[tuh-jik-uh-stan, -stahn, -jee-kuh-, tah-, tuh-ji-kyi-stahn]

noun

1. a republic in central Asia, N of Afghanistan. 55,240 sq. mi. (143,600 sq. km). Dushanbe.

Tajikistan

/ tɑːˌdʒɪkɪˈstɑːn, -stæn /

noun

1. a republic in central Asia: under Uzbek rule from the 15th century until taken over by Russia in the 1860s, it became an autonomous Soviet republic in 1929 and gained full independence from the Soviet Union in 1991; it is mainly mountainous. Official language: Tajik or Tajiki. Religion: believers are mainly Muslim. Currency: somoni. Capital: Dushanbe. Pop: 7 910 041 (2013 est). Area: 143 100 sq km (55 240 sq miles)

Tajikistan

1. Republic in central Asia, bounded by Uzbekistan to the west and northwest, Kyrgyzstan to the north, China to the east, and Afghanistan to the south. Its capital and largest city is Dushanbe.

This former member of the Soviet Union declared its independence in 1991.

Tajikistan is predominantly Muslim.

Example Sentences

Around 60% of the world’s antimony is mined in China, with most of the rest coming from Russia, Tajikistan and Myanmar.

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Since the Ukraine war, the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have stepped up contacts with other countries in the so-called "C5+1" format.

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In May, Moscow said it had sent some 20,000 naturalised Russians originally from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to fight at the front.

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But add up the dozen or so other countries that form the supposed vanguard of this new world order: Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan.

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That naturally cold storage site is a project of the Ice Memory Foundation, which supported the Tajikistan expedition along with main funder, the Swiss Polar Institute.

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