Tajikistan

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PROFILE
  • Area: 144,100 sq. km (55,637 sq. mi.)
  • Population: 8,330,946 (2016 est.)
  • Population growth rate: 1.66% (2016 est.)
  • Life expectancy: 67.7 years (2016)
  • Languages: Tajik (official), Russian widely used in government and business, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Pashto
  • Religions: Sunni Muslim 85%, Shia Muslim 5%, other 10%
  • Formal name: Republic of Tajikistan
  • Alternate names: Jumhurii Tojikiston, Republic of Tajikistan, Tadjikistan, Tadzhik Soviet Socialist Republic, Tadzhikskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika, Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, Tojikiston
  • Government type: presidential republic
  • Leaders: chief of state: President Emomali RAHMON; head of government: Prime Minister Qohir RASULZODA
  • Capital: Dushanbe
  • Administrative divisions: 2 provinces, 1 autonomous province, 1 capital region, and 1 district of republican subordination
  • GDP per capita (PPP): $2,700 (2015 est.)
  • Exports: aluminum, electricity, cotton, fruits, vegetable oil, textiles
  • Imports: petroleum products, aluminum oxide, machinery and equipment, foodstuffs
  • Currency: Tajikistani somoni (TJS)