Iskanderkul Lake in Tajikistan.

Eagle and Tail in Tajikistan

Tajikistan's economy grew substantially after the war.

Sughd Region ( ) is one of the four administrative divisions and one of the three provinces (, viloyatho ) that make up Tajikistan.

The following year, the Soviet Union collapsed, and Tajikistan declared its independence.

Tajikistan is officially a republic, and holds elections for the Presidency and Parliament.

Dushanbe () (Persian دوشنبه) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan.

With the independence of Tajikistan, Khujand became the second largest city in the nation.It reverted to its original name in 1992 after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

The last strong earthquakes were in 1998, which killed about 6,000 people in Badakhshan near Tajikistan.

At the time of writing new funding for Belarus and Tajikistan has been suspended.

The travel series is quite popular in Tajikistan where many people watch it via satellite TV.

P.S. The episode about Tajikistan turned out to be very colorful, full of flavor, interesting, and kind...

A civil war was fought almost immediately after independence, lasting from 1992 to 1997.

We also said that a weekend in Tajikistan is a GREAT option for curious travelers...

Images from Kyrgyzstan can be seen here from Tajikistan here, here, here, and here and from Afghanistan here.

On November 24, a popular Ukrainian travel series aired an episode about Tajikistan.

Khujand (Tajik , خجند Khudzhand ), formerly Khodjend or Khodzhent until 1936 and Leninabad (Leninobod, Ленинобод, لنین آباد) until 1991, is the second largest city of Tajikistan and the capital of the northernmost province of Tajikistan, now called Sughd.

The episode has also led some netizens to suggest that there is a shortage of home made video material about Tajikistan.

Armenia is member of Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) along with Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (), and from 1929 to 1961 as Stalinabad ().

Tajikistan gained independence in 1991, and has experienced three changes in government and a civil war since then.

Russian troops were stationed in southern Tajikistan, in order to guard the border with Afghanistan, until summer 2005.

In 1929, it was incorporated into the Soviet Republic of Tajikistan (Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic) after being part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic between 1924 and 1929.

However, Uzbekistan demanded that the U.S. withdraw from the airbases after the Andijan massacre and the U.S. reaction to this massacre.

Projects around the world documenting oral poetry in Sierra Leone, preserving traditional weaving patterns in Gaza, language revitalization in Tajikistan, etc., etc.

To see this in more detail, Afghanistanica takes us to Taloqan, the capital of Takhar Province, which borders Tajikistan

Photographer Matthieu Paley presents 'Pamiristan', a marvelous photo set from Tajikistan's high altitude region of Mountainous Badakhshan.

In recent years Tajikistan has pursued agreements with Iran and Pakistan to gain port access in those countries via Afghanistan.

The closest genetically related language may be the Yaghnobi language of Tajikistan, the only other living Northeastern Iranian language.

Dialects Tajik dialects can be approximately split into the following groups Northern dialects (Northern Tajikistan, Buxoro, Samarqand, Derbend, Kyrgyzstan, and the Varzob valley region of Dushanbe).

Following in the footsteps of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan has stopped showing The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen's latest spoof blockbuster.

This improved Tajikistan's position among other Central Asian countries (namely Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), which seem to have degraded economically ever since.

The GDP of Tajikistan expanded at an average rate of 9.6 over the period of 2000 2007 according to the World Bank data.

In 1929 Tajikistan was made one of the component republics of the Soviet Union Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic (Tajik SSR) and it kept that status until 1991.

China was also engaged in constructing a 500 million electric plant and railway link between Tajikistan and Pakistan.

One can certainly accuse the guy who stayed in Dushanbe and spent two days there with 100 dollars in his pocket of being biased about Tajikistan.

Districts of Republican Subordination ( ) is a region in Tajikistan, consisting of 13 districts which are directly under central rule.

Despite the fact that the long awaited hydropower station Sangtuda 1 in Tajikistan has been launched, the population still does not feel the changes.

Three of these aircraft belonging to the Air Force were deployed to Dushanbe in Tajikistan, while the three others were Rafale Marine of the Navy on board Charles De Gaulle .

It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east Iran in the west Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan in the north and China in the far northeast.

It borders Pakistan in the south and east Iran in the west Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan in the north and China in the far east.

Despite the promises of local meteorologist, who forecasted that the cold weather will leave Tajikistan in several days, the temperature is still 16 20 degrees below the zero (Celsius).

Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (natively , or , ) is a Turkic language spoken by about four million people in Kyrgyzstan as well as China, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Russia.

Many of these comments contain strong language and blame the presenters for being ungrateful for the Tajik hospitality and for deliberately showing the most negative things about the country.

Historically, such clashes have often sparked civil war (for example, Spain in 1936 or Tajikistan in 1992) or brutal military coups (as in Indonesia in 1965 and Turkey in 1980).