Central Asia
Tajikistan
Republic of Tajikistan
Core facts
- Capital
- Dushanbe
- Population
- 10,499,000
- Area
- 143,100 km^2
- Country code
- TJK
- Flag emoji
- 🇹🇯
- UN member
- Yes
- Independent
- Yes
- Population density
- 73.4 per km^2
- Calling code
- +992
Culture and society
- Languages
- Russian, Tajik
- Religions
- Islam (27.0%), Hinduism (25.0%), Unaffiliated (21.0%), Buddhism (12.0%), Christianity (7.0%), Folk religions (6.0%), Other religions (2.0%)
- Native names
- Таджикистан, Тоҷикистон
- Demonyms (EN)
- Tadzhik / Tadzhik
- Start of week
- monday
- Driving side
- right
- Timezones
- UTC+05:00
- Alternative spellings
- TJ, Toçikiston, Republic of Tajikistan, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Çumhuriyi Toçikiston
Geography and map
- Continents
- Asia
- Coordinates
- 39.00, 71.00
- Landlocked
- Yes
- Borders
- AFG, CHN, KGZ, UZB
- Border countries count
- 4
Economy and identity
- Currencies
- Tajikistani somoni (ЅМ)
- Top-level domain
- .tj
- FIFA code
- TJK
- Capital coordinates
- 38.55, 68.77
- Postal code format
- ######
- Gini index
- 34 (2015)
- Coat of arms