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About Tajikistan
SHORT INFORMATION ABOUT TAJIKISTAN
| Official name | The Republic of Tajikistan |
| Location | On the East it is contiguous with China, on the North – with Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and with Afghanistan on the South |
| Territory | 143.1 thousand square km |
| Climate | acute continental; the average temperature fluctuates between -200 C and O0C in January and from 00 C till +300 C in June depending on the height above the sea level |
| Geographical zones | Mountains, forests-steppes |
| Population | 8 million of people (february 2013 ), women - 49.7%, men - 50.3%, urban -26.6 %, rural - 74.4 % |
| Density of population | 42.8 person per square km |
| People inhabit | 7% of the territory |
| Life duration | 68.4 |
| Coverage by education (%) | 68.8 (on all levels) |
| Capital | Dushanbe, population - 562 thousand people - 9.2 % |
| Large cities | Khojent, Kurgan-tube, Kuliab, Khorog, Istravshan, Penjikent, Tursun-zade |
| Administrative division | Districts of republican subordination – 28.6 thousand square km, population -1467 thousand people; Sogd oblast- 25.4 thousand square km, population - 1992 thousand people; Khatlon oblast - 24.8 thousand square km, population - 2344 thousand people; Gorno Badakhshan autonomous oblast - 64.2 thousand square km, population - 215 thousand people - 3.4 % |
| Ethnic composition of the population | Tajiks - 68.8 %, Uzbeks - 24.9 %, Russians - 3 %, others - 3.3 % |
| Language | Tajik (state), Uzbek, Russian, English (languages of international and business intercourse) |
| Religion | Islam, Orthodoxy |
| Currency | current rate can be found on the website of the National Bank of Tajikistan - Site |
| The telephone code of the country | + 992 |
| Time (Dushanbe) | by Greenwich + 5 hours |
| Measurement and weighting system | Metric |
| Natural resources | coal, oil, natural gas, iron, zink, antimony, mercury, gold, tin, tungsten, boron, common salt, fluorite, precious and semi-precious stones, aluminium |
| Industry | mineral resourse, hydro-electric engineering, textile |
| Agriculture | cotton, fruits, vegetables, silk, grain, tobacco |
| Holidays | 1 January – New Year, 8 March – International Women Day, 21-22 March - Navruz, 9 May – the Victory Day, 9 September – Independence Day, 1 May – the Day of International labour solidarity, 5 October – the Language Day, 23 February – Day of the National Army |
| Three last holidays | are workdays. There is no fixed day for celebration of holidays Eidi Kurbon and Eidi Ramazan and it depends on lunar calendar. These days are non-working |
| Favourable time for tourism | May-medium of the October |