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Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east. It is separated from Pakistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor. It has a population of over 10.7 million people.

The territory was previously home to cultures of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, including the Oxus civilization in west, with the Indo-Iranians arriving during the Andronovo culture. Parts of country were part of the Sogdian and Bactrian civilizations, and was ruled by those including the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great, the Greco-Bactrians, the Kushans, the Kidarites and Hephthalites, the First Turkic Khaganate, the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, the Samanid Empire, the Kara-Khanids, Seljuks, Khwarazmians, the Mongols, Timurids and Khanate of Bukhara. The region was later conquered by the Russian Empire, before becoming part of the Soviet Union. Within the Soviet Union, the country's borders were drawn when it was part of Uzbekistan as an autonomous republic before becoming a constituent republic of the Soviet Union on 5 December 1929. (Full article...)

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Nurek Dam

The Nurek Dam (Russian: Нурекская ГЭС; Tajik: Нерӯгоҳи обии Норак, Nerūgohi obii Norak, Tajik for Nurek Hydro-electric Station) is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan. Its primary purpose is hydroelectric power generation and its power station has an installed capacity of 3,015 MW. Construction of the dam began in 1961 and the power station's first generator was commissioned in 1972. The last generator was commissioned in 1979 and the entire project was completed in 1980 when Tajikistan was still a republic within the Soviet Union, becoming the tallest dam in the world at the time. At 304 m (997 ft), it is currently the second tallest man-made dam in the world, after being surpassed by Jinping-I Dam in 2013. The Rogun Dam, also along the Vakhsh in Tajikistan, may exceed it in size when completed. (Full article...)

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... Tajikistan is the smallest nation in Central Asia by area, and is entirely landlocked?
It is covered by mountains of the Pamir range, and more than fifty percent of the country is over 3,000 meters (9,800 ft) above sea level.

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The following are images from various Tajikistan-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Dushanbe International Airport (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 2Map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 3A traditional Tajik wedding. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 4Flag of the Tajik SSR (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 5Dushanbe railway station (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 6Tajik men and boys, 1905–1915
Image 7Samanid empire (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 8Chinese workers build a bridge on the road between Dushanbe and Khujand, 2007 (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 9Ambassador to the Tang dynasty, coming from Kumedh (胡密丹), Tajikistan. Wanghuitu (王会图) circa 650 CE. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 10A man makes plov, the national dish of Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 11Sculpture of a woman from Takht-i Sangin, 3rd-2nd century BCE, Tajikistan. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 12Protests in Dushanbe, February 1990 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 13CIA map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 14Pamir Highway Route (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 15Uzbek Spetsnaz soldiers during the Civil War, 1992 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 16A family celebrating Eid in Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 17Asia in 500, showing the Hepthalite Khanate at its greatest extent (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 18Soviet negotiations with basmachi, 1921 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 19A Tajik women in traditional dress. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 202001 map of Tajikistan including road and rail network (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 21Painted clay and alabaster head of a Zoroastrian priest wearing a distinctive Bactrian-style headdress, Takhti-Sangin, Tajikistan, Greco-Bactrian kingdom, 3rd-2nd century BC. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 22A Tajik feast. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 23A Sogdian wall mural from the ruins of an aristocratic home in the archaeological site of Panjakent, showing Sogdian men playing a board game, 8th century (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 24A monument in Dushanbe to Tajik writers. (from Culture of Tajikistan)

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