Tajikistan
Formal name: The Republic of Tajikistan. Short name: Tajikistan.
Term for Citizens: Tajiki.
Capital: Dushanbe.
Date of Independence: December 25, 1991.
Area: 143,100 square kilometres.
Time: UTC+5
Population: 7,8 million (2011 estimate)
Languages: Tajik (Persian), Russian.
Religion: Population of Tajikistan is 98% muslim (approximately 95% Sunni and 3% Shia). The remaining 2% of the population are followers of Russian Orthodoxy, a variety of Protestant denominations, Catholicism, Zoroastrianism and Buddhism.
Education: The 2002-2005 public spending on education was 3.5% of the GDP. According to a UNICEF-supported survey, about 25 percent of girls in Tajikistan fail to complete compulsory primary education because of poverty and gender bias, although literacy is generally high in Tajikistan.
Health: Life expectancy at birth is estimated to be 66.38 years in 2012. The infant mortality rate is approximately 37 deaths per 1,000 children in 2012. In the early 2000s, there were 203 physicians per 100,000 people. Tajikistan is the only country in world where polio is on the increase. From zero cases in 2008 and 2009, 458 confirmed cases have been reported for 2010 (of 976 cases worldwide). Despite repeated efforts by the Tajik government to improve and expand health care, the system remains extremely underdeveloped and poor, with severe shortages of medical supplies. The state's Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare reported that 104,272 disabled people are registered in Tajikistan (2000). This group of people suffers most from poverty in Tajikistan. The government of Tajikistan and the World Bank considered activities to support this part of the population described in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. Public expenditure on health was at 1% of the GDP in 2004.
Culture: Historically, Tajiks and Persians come from very similar stock, speaking variants of the same language and are related as part of the larger group of Iranian peoples. The Tajik language is the mother tongue of around 80% of the citizens of Tajikistan. The main urban centers in today's Tajikistan include Dushanbe (the capital), Khujand, Kulob, Panjakent and Istaravshan. There are also Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Russian minorities.
About Tajikistan
Tajikistan is one of the stan countries. The territory of Tajikistan lies at the cross roads of two imperial powers and became the focal point in the political history of our time more commonly known as the Great Game.
Physically Tajikistan is 90% mountainous giving rise to some highest mountains in the region. To the North it borders with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan while in the east its boundaries touch the Chinese territories of Xinjiang Province. The western part is block by long border line with Uzbekistan. The most interesting part lies in the south where Oxus river (Amudarya) makes its borderline with Afghanistan with south lies the strategic zone with Afghan Wakhan region where a thin line divides it with northern parts of Pakistan. Tajikistan is home to Pamir range with smaller off shoots smaller ranges of which the Zarafshan valley is famous and beautiful part of the country.
Tajikistan is home to many ethnic groups like Wakhis, Sarikolis, Pamiris, Yaghnobis but mainly all come under one term Tajik, are leading ethnic group of the nation. It is very interesting to note that the
Pamir branch of the Great Silk Road passes through the heart of the country which played an important role in the migration of many Indo-European communities settled around the brims, particularly in Tarim basin of Taklamakan desert of China. Historically speaking all the ethnic groups of Tajikistan may have settled even earlier than 1400 BC as part of Aryan migrations. The ethnic course kept changing with political changes till the height of the Great Game when imperial Russia made it as its part creating a buffer of Wakhan region of Afghanistan in 1890s. Then after the fall of imperial Russia the Bolsheviks began a proletariat structure of the new geographic countries giving the name as Tajik SSR. The communist era was the developing phase of the nation which continued till the fall of Soviet Union giving rise to an independent Republic of Tajikistan in 1991. A new era began with a pledge for a prosperous nation of the Pamir region. There have been some hiccups for short intervals of dissent among various political parties but an overall agreement on the prosperity of Tajikistan began a new phase of development and construction with efforts to bring the country into the comity of nations of the world . Due to its huge water resources, Tajikistan is leading the hydro-electrical power and is vying to export the electro energy to her neighbors in future. Tajikistan is one of the biggest resource of Aluminum in the world. It has huge mineral wealth and is tapping the resource for gas and oil with positive results. The country is divided into four major provinces namely Sughd, Region of the Republic control, Dushanbe, Khatlon and Gorno-Badakhshan.
Term for Citizens: Tajiki.
Capital: Dushanbe.
Date of Independence: December 25, 1991.
Area: 143,100 square kilometres.
Time: UTC+5
Population: 7,8 million (2011 estimate)
Languages: Tajik (Persian), Russian.
Religion: Population of Tajikistan is 98% muslim (approximately 95% Sunni and 3% Shia). The remaining 2% of the population are followers of Russian Orthodoxy, a variety of Protestant denominations, Catholicism, Zoroastrianism and Buddhism.
Education: The 2002-2005 public spending on education was 3.5% of the GDP. According to a UNICEF-supported survey, about 25 percent of girls in Tajikistan fail to complete compulsory primary education because of poverty and gender bias, although literacy is generally high in Tajikistan.
Health: Life expectancy at birth is estimated to be 66.38 years in 2012. The infant mortality rate is approximately 37 deaths per 1,000 children in 2012. In the early 2000s, there were 203 physicians per 100,000 people. Tajikistan is the only country in world where polio is on the increase. From zero cases in 2008 and 2009, 458 confirmed cases have been reported for 2010 (of 976 cases worldwide). Despite repeated efforts by the Tajik government to improve and expand health care, the system remains extremely underdeveloped and poor, with severe shortages of medical supplies. The state's Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare reported that 104,272 disabled people are registered in Tajikistan (2000). This group of people suffers most from poverty in Tajikistan. The government of Tajikistan and the World Bank considered activities to support this part of the population described in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. Public expenditure on health was at 1% of the GDP in 2004.
Culture: Historically, Tajiks and Persians come from very similar stock, speaking variants of the same language and are related as part of the larger group of Iranian peoples. The Tajik language is the mother tongue of around 80% of the citizens of Tajikistan. The main urban centers in today's Tajikistan include Dushanbe (the capital), Khujand, Kulob, Panjakent and Istaravshan. There are also Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Russian minorities.
About Tajikistan
Tajikistan is one of the stan countries. The territory of Tajikistan lies at the cross roads of two imperial powers and became the focal point in the political history of our time more commonly known as the Great Game.
Physically Tajikistan is 90% mountainous giving rise to some highest mountains in the region. To the North it borders with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan while in the east its boundaries touch the Chinese territories of Xinjiang Province. The western part is block by long border line with Uzbekistan. The most interesting part lies in the south where Oxus river (Amudarya) makes its borderline with Afghanistan with south lies the strategic zone with Afghan Wakhan region where a thin line divides it with northern parts of Pakistan. Tajikistan is home to Pamir range with smaller off shoots smaller ranges of which the Zarafshan valley is famous and beautiful part of the country.
Tajikistan is home to many ethnic groups like Wakhis, Sarikolis, Pamiris, Yaghnobis but mainly all come under one term Tajik, are leading ethnic group of the nation. It is very interesting to note that the
Pamir branch of the Great Silk Road passes through the heart of the country which played an important role in the migration of many Indo-European communities settled around the brims, particularly in Tarim basin of Taklamakan desert of China. Historically speaking all the ethnic groups of Tajikistan may have settled even earlier than 1400 BC as part of Aryan migrations. The ethnic course kept changing with political changes till the height of the Great Game when imperial Russia made it as its part creating a buffer of Wakhan region of Afghanistan in 1890s. Then after the fall of imperial Russia the Bolsheviks began a proletariat structure of the new geographic countries giving the name as Tajik SSR. The communist era was the developing phase of the nation which continued till the fall of Soviet Union giving rise to an independent Republic of Tajikistan in 1991. A new era began with a pledge for a prosperous nation of the Pamir region. There have been some hiccups for short intervals of dissent among various political parties but an overall agreement on the prosperity of Tajikistan began a new phase of development and construction with efforts to bring the country into the comity of nations of the world . Due to its huge water resources, Tajikistan is leading the hydro-electrical power and is vying to export the electro energy to her neighbors in future. Tajikistan is one of the biggest resource of Aluminum in the world. It has huge mineral wealth and is tapping the resource for gas and oil with positive results. The country is divided into four major provinces namely Sughd, Region of the Republic control, Dushanbe, Khatlon and Gorno-Badakhshan.