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Tajikistan

Capital: Dushanbe

  • Mountains cover more than 90% of Tajikistan, so most of the country is high, rugged land.
  • Lake Karakul, at about 3,960 m, is a salty lake that fills an impact crater roughly 52 km across in the Pamir Mountains.
  • Sarazm, a Bronze Age settlement in northern Tajikistan, dates to about 3900 to 2100 BC and became a UNESCO site in 2010.
  • The Pamir Highway is 1,252 km long and reaches its highest point at Ak-Baital Pass, 4,655 m above sea level.

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