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Political map of Tajikistan and its surrounding region, showing national boundaries, major cities such as Dushanbe, Khujand, and Khorugh, and neighboring countries including Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan. An inset locator map highlights Tajikistan's position within Central Asia. Thematic map of China showing the general distribution of major ethnic groups using different colors and patterns. The Han Chinese population dominates the eastern and central regions, while areas in the west and south are marked for Uighur, Tibetan, Mongolian, Hui, Miao, and other ethnic groups. A legend in the lower left identifies each group and also marks sparsely populated and uninhabited regions. Major cities and provincial boundaries are labeled for reference.
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Political map of Tajikistan and its surrounding region, showing national boundaries, major cities such as Dushanbe, Khujand, and Khorugh, and neighboring countries including Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan. An inset locator map highlights Tajikistan's position within Central Asia.
Tajikistan

Tajik

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Also known as: Sart, Tadzhik
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Tajik, a Persian-speaking people of Central Asia located primarily in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and China’s Xinjiang province. The Tajiks constitute more than four-fifths of the population of Tajikistan. In the 2010s there were more than 7.5 million Tajiks in Tajikistan and more than 1.5 million in Uzbekistan. Before the Afghanistan War (2001–14), there were about 5 million in Afghanistan, where they constituted about one-fifth of the population, but instability in the country has made more-recent...

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