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Tajikistan
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With an area of 143,100 square kilometers, Tajikistan is about the same
size as the state of Wisconsin. Its maximum east-to-west extent is 700
kilometers, and its maximum north-to-south extent is 350 kilometers. The
country's highly irregular border is about 3,000 kilometers long,
including 430 kilometers along the Chinese border to the east and 1,030
kilometers along the frontier with Afghanistan to the south. Most of the
southern border with Afghanistan is set by the Amu Darya (darya
is the Persian word for river) and its tributary the Panj River (Darya-ye
Panj), which has headwaters in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. The other
neighbors are the former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan (to the west and
the north) and Kyrgyzstan (to the north).
Data as of March 1996
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