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Tajikistan

The country itself, in eight articles.

  1. 01 General Information Where Tajikistan sits, how many people live there, and how the country is governed.
  2. 02 History of Tajikistan From the Sogdian kingdom of the 7th century BCE through Persian, Arab, Mongol, Russian and Soviet rule to independence in 1991.
  3. 03 Geography Ninety-three per cent of Tajikistan is mountainous. The Pamir and Tian Shan ranges shape everything else.
  4. 04 Economy Cotton, aluminium and hydropower, and the migrant remittances that underwrite them.
  5. 05 People The Tajik majority and the Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Pamiri communities who share the valleys.
  6. 06 Languages Tajik is Persian written in Cyrillic. Russian, Uzbek, Kyrgyz and the Pamiri languages sit behind it.
  7. 07 Health Care How the health system works, where access is hardest, and which conditions carry the heaviest burden.