page_title: Tajikistan
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Tajikistan / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Areas in Dushanbe, Tajikistan Русский: Привокзальная площадь,здание железнодорожного вокзала Душанбе Тоҷикӣ: Майдони вокзали роҳи оҳан, бинои вокзали роҳи оҳани Душанбе Beschreibung: Bahnhof Duschanbe, Tadschikistan Fotograf: Drsweeny Datum: Juli 2003 16:28, 5. Jun 2005 Drsweeny 1024 x 768 (101426 Byte) (Beschreibung: Duschanbe, Tadschikistan Bahnhof Fotograf: Drsweeny Copyright Status: GNU Freie Dokumentationslizenz)
context_page_description: Tajikistan is a country in Central Asia. It was previously part of the Soviet Union. Tajikistan is a republic. The capital city is Dushanbe. The official language is Tajik, which is a dialect of Farsi.
  Tajikistan is a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the CIS. Tajikistan is eighth in size of CIS countries.
context_section_description: Tajikistan is one of the new countries in South-central Asia.  It is west of China, north of Afghanistan and Pakistan, that is separated by a narrow 14 km strip of Tajik claimed land known as the Wakhan Corridor in the Pamirs, east of Uzbekistan and south of Kyrgyzstan.
  Tajikistan is landlocked in the middle of the continent of Asia.
  Its total area is only about 143,100 square kilometres (55,300 sq mi). It is slightly smaller than Wisconsin, USA. Tajikistan’s borders total to 3,651 kilometres (2,269 mi) long.
  The climate has hot summers and mild winters.
  Almost all of the country (85 percent) is mountainous with river-valleys running across, however high altitude mountains of Pomir are in the eastern part of the country, (which is the west end of the Himalayas). The climate there is semiarid to polar. The mountains cover an area of about 120,000 km² (46,000 sq mi). There are other countries within the mountain range.  The mountains are between 3,600 to 4,400 metres (11,800 to 14,400 ft) high.
  Karakul lake is located within a 52-kilometre-wide (32 mi) meteorite crater, which would have formed about 25 million years ago, or less than 5 million years ago.
caption: Dushanbe railway station
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