Tajikistan

Tajikistan - The Republic of Tajikistan is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. It borders Afghanistan to the South, Uzbekistan to the West, Kyrgyzstan to the North, and China to the East. Once the location of the famous Samanid empire, Tajikistan is home to the Tajiks, a mountain people who speak a Persian dialect. The country was one of the Soviet Union republic. Capital - Dushanbe. Population - 6,507,000.