Tajikistan
Tajikistan (English: /tˈkᵻstn/, English: /tə-tæ-/; Tajik: Тоҷикистон, Tajik: [t̪ʰɔ̝ː.d͡ʒiː.kʰɪs.t̪ʰɔ̝ːn]; Russian: Таджикистан), officially the Republic of Tajikistan (Tajik: Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон), is a landlocked country in Central Asia. It has an area of and an estimated population of 9,750,065 people. Its capital and largest city is Dushanbe. It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east. It is separated narrowly from Pakist…