Location: Asia
Status: UN Country
Capital City: Dushanbe
Population: 5,862,000
Area: 143,000 km2
Currency: 1 somoni = 100 diram
Languages: Tajik, Uzbek, Russian
Religions: Sunni Muslim
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Tajikistan: a republic in central Asia: under Uzbek rule from the 15th century until taken over by Russia in the 1860s, it became an autonomous Soviet republic in 1929 and gained full independence from the Soviet Union in 1991; it is mainly mountainous. Official language: Tajik or Tajiki. Religion: believers are mainly Muslim. Currency: somoni. Capital: Dushanbe. Pop.: 6 297 000 (2004 est.). Area: 143 100 sq. km (55 240 sq. miles)