Tajikistan

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Etymology: From Classical Persian تَاجِیکِسْتَان (tājīkistān) (from which Tajik Тоҷикистон (Tojikiston)). By surface analysis, Tajik + -istan.

1. A country in Central Asia. Official name: Republic of Tajikistan. Capital: Dushanbe.

   “Several officers are going to train border police in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, which border Afghanistan, and in several other countries.”

   “Rahmon, addressing Putin directly, said that Tajikistan and other countries in the vast region have been treated like outsiders and indicates that the region deserves more investment from Moscow.[…] Rahmon said the neglect of Tajikistan and the other countries of Central Asia, which he said were only used for their raw materials during the Soviet era, was one of the reasons for the collapse.”