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Tajikistan - Overview

Overview

capital

Dushanbe

area

143.1 thousand sq km

population

7.06 mln 

ethnic groups 
  • Tajik - 65%
  • Uzbek - 25%
  • Russian - 2%
  • others - 2.6%

religions

  • sunni muslim - 90%
  • ismaili - 3%

official language(s)

  • Tajik
  • Russian (the language of inter-ethnic communication)


national currency


somoni (TJS) = 100 diram


government type

Tajikistan is a unitary state.

  • 1 city district - Dushanbe
  • 2 provinces - Sughad, Khalton
  • 1 autonomous province of Corno-Badakhstan
  • 13 regions of republican subordination


government

Tajikistan is a presidential republic. President, elected for a 7-year term, heads the State and the executive power. The legislative power is exercised by the Supreme Assembly or Majlisi Oli. It consists of the Assembly of Representatives (the lower chamber) and the National Assembly (the upper chamber).

participation in organizations of regional integration

participant:

 


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