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Tajikistan is a central Asian state, landlocked between China, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. It has an area of 143.100 km2 and a population of 7.7 million inhabitants in 2012.

From an administrative point of view, the country is divided into two provinces (viloyatho), Viloyati Khatlon (capital : Qurghonteppa) and Viloyati Sughd (ch.-l. : Khujand), and an autonomous province (viloyati mukhtor), Viloyati Mukhtori Kuhistoni Badakhshon (Gorno-Badakhshan), whose capital is Khorugh. The rest of Tajikistan consists of “Republican-subordinated districts” administered directly from Dushanbe, the capital.

Dushabe has 543,000 inhabitants and Khujand (145,000) is the only other city of significant importance.