!!!Tajikistan
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''As a result of the breakup of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan became an independent nation in 1991.
A civil war was fought almost immediately after independence, lasting from 1992 to 1997.

Most of Tajikistan's 8 million people belong to the Tajik ethnic group, who speak Tajik (Persian), although many people also speak Russian.''


*Tajikistan is a land locked country.
*Tajikistan has largest boundary with Afghanistan   which is approximately 1206  km.
*Tajikistan has shortest boundary with China   which is approximately 414  km.
*The largest river in Tajikistan is Syr Darya
  which is 3080 km.
*The largest export partner of Tajikistan is Turkey.
*The largest import partner of Tajikistan is China.
*There is 1 seaport in Tajikistan.

!!Tourist Attraction
[Mountains cover more than 90 percent of this Central Asian republic.|http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/tajikistan-guide]
!!National Facts

* The national dish of Tajikistan is  O'sh (pilaf).

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!References
#Text marked as italic is taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan unter [CC|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/at]