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Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is its capital and most populous city with a population of 1.24 million people. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east and is narrowly separated from Pakistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor. It has a population of more than 10.9 million people.

The territory was previously home to cultures of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, including the Oxus civilisation in west. Parts of country were part of the Sogdian and Bactrian civilisations, 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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Rustam Emomali (born Rustam Emomalievich Rahmonov; 19 December 1987) is a Tajik politician who is the current Chairman of the National Assembly of Tajikistan, Mayor of Dushanbe and the eldest son of Emomali Rahmon, the long-standing president of Tajikistan.

Rustam Emomali is believed to be prepared by his father to succeed him as the leader of Tajikistan; he holds the title of the constitutionally designated successor to the presidency. He heads the anti-corruption agency in Tajikistan and the state's financial oversight agency. Despite not having served in the armed forces, he holds the rank of major general. He was appointed as the mayor of Dushanbe by his father in 2017 at the age of 29. (Full article...)

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... costing $3.5 million to construct and at a height of 165 m (541 ft), the Dushanbe Flagpole, first flown in 2011 is the tallest free-standing flagpole in the world.

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

Image 1Flag of the Tajik SSR (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 2CIA map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 3Painted 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 4Pamir Highway Route (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 5A 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 6Asia in 500, showing the Hepthalite Khanate at its greatest extent (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 7Uzbek Spetsnaz soldiers during the Civil War, 1992 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 8Samanid empire (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 9Protests in Dushanbe, February 1990 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 10Sculpture of a woman from Takht-i Sangin, 3rd-2nd century BCE, Tajikistan. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 11Chinese workers build a bridge on the road between Dushanbe and Khujand, 2007 (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 122001 map of Tajikistan including road and rail network (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 13Map of Tajikistan (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 14A native Tajik family celebrating Eid in Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 15A man makes plov, the national dish of Tajikistan. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 16A Tajik women in traditional dress. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 17Dushanbe railway station (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 18The statue of Ismail Samani, a symbol of the history and culture of the Tajik people, in the city of Dushanbe. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 19Dushanbe International Airport (from Transport in Tajikistan)
Image 20Ambassador to the Tang dynasty, coming from Kumedh (胡密丹), Tajikistan. Wanghuitu (王会图) circa 650 CE. (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 21A Tajik feast. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 22Soviet negotiations with basmachi, 1921 (from History of Tajikistan)
Image 23A traditional Tajik wedding. (from Culture of Tajikistan)
Image 24A monument in Dushanbe to Tajik writers. (from Culture of Tajikistan)

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