Tajikistan

• inadequate sanitation facilities;
• increasing levels of soil salinity;
• industrial pollution;
• excessive pesticides

party to:

Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Environmental Modification, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands

signed, but not ratified:

none of the selected agreements

• landlocked;
• mountainous region dominated by the Trans-Alay Range in the north and the Pamirs in the southeast;
• highest point, Qullai Ismoili Somoni (formerly Communism Peak), was the tallest mountain in the former USSR

0-14 years:

40.4% (male 1,370,314; female 1,346,465)

15-64 years:

54.9% (male 1,835,573; female 1,854,677)

65 years and over:

4.7% (male 136,033; female 176,505) (2002 est.)

at birth:

1.05 male(s)/female

under 15 years:

1.02 male(s)/female

15-64 years:

0.99 male(s)/female

65 years and over:

0.77 male(s)/female

total population:

0.99 male(s)/female (2002 est.)

noun:

Tajikistani(s)

adjective:

Tajikistani

conventional long form:

Republic of Tajikistan

conventional short form:

Tajikistan

local short form:

Tojikiston

former:

Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic

local long form:

Jumhurii Tojikiston

• 2 provinces (viloyatho, singular - viloyat) and 1 autonomous province* (viloyati mukhtor);
• Viloyati Mukhtori Kuhistoni Badakhshon* (Khorugh), Viloyati Khatlon (Qurghonteppa), Viloyati Sughd (Khujand)

note: the administrative center name follows in parentheses

chief of state:

President Emomali RAHMONOV (since 6 November 1994; head of state and Supreme Assembly chairman since 19 November 1992)

head of government:

Prime Minister Oqil OQILOV (since 20 January 1999)

cabinet:

Council of Ministers appointed by the president, approved by the Supreme Assembly

election results:

Emomali RAHMONOV elected president; percent of vote - Emomali RAHMONOV 97%, Davlat USMON 2%

elections:

• president elected by popular vote for a seven-year term;
• election last held 6 November 1999 (next to be held NA 2006);
• prime minister appointed by the president

• Democratic Party or DPT [Mahmadruzi ISKANDAROV, chairman];
• Islamic Revival Party [Said Abdullo NURI, chairman];
• People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan or PDPT [Emomali RAHMONOV];
• Social Democratic Party or SDPT [Rahmatullo ZOIROV];
• Socialist Party or SPT [Sherali KENJAYEV];
• Tajik Communist Party or CPT [Shodi SHABDOLOV]

• Tajikistan does not have an embassy in the US, but does have a permanent mission to the UN: address - 136 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10021, telephone - [1] (212) 472-7645, FAX - [1] (212) 628-0252;
• permanent representative to the UN is Khamrokhon ZARIPOV

chief of mission:

Ambassador Franklin P. HUDDLE, Jr.

embassy:

• 10 Pavlova Street, Dushanbe, Tajikistan 734003;
• note - the embassy in Dushanbe is not yet fully operational;
• most business is still handled in Almaty at 531 Sayfullin Street, Almaty, Kazakhstan, telephone 7-3272-58-79-61, FAX 7-3272-58079-68

mailing address:

use embassy street address

telephone:

[992] (372) 21-03-48, 21-03-50, 21-03-52, 24-15-60

FAX:

[992] (372) 51-00-28, 21-03-62

• three horizontal stripes of red (top), a wider stripe of white, and green;
• a gold crown surmounted by seven gold, five-pointed stars is located in the center of the white stripe

lowest 10%:

NA%

highest 10%:

NA%

general assessment:

poorly developed and not well maintained; many towns are not reached by the national network

domestic:

cable and microwave radio relay

international:

• linked by cable and microwave radio relay to other CIS republics and by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch;
• Dushanbe linked by Intelsat to international gateway switch in Ankara (Turkey);
• satellite earth stations - 1 Orbita and 2 Intelsat

total:

482 km

broad gauge:

482 km 1.520-m gauge

note: includes only lines in common carrier service; lines dedicated to particular industries are excluded (2001)

total:

29,900 km

paved:

21,400 km (includes some all-weather gravel-surfaced roads)

unpaved:

8,500 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)

• Uzbekistan has mined much of its undemarcated southern and eastern border with Tajikistan;
• border demarcation negotiations continuing with Kyrgyzstan in Isfara Valley area;
• Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan wrestle with sharing water resources and the resulting regional environmental degradation caused by the shrinking of the Aral Sea

• major transit country for Afghan narcotics bound for Russian and, to a lesser extent, Western European markets;
• limited illicit cultivation of opium poppy for domestic consumption;
• Tajikistan seizes roughly 80 percent of all drugs captured in Central Asia and stands third world-wide in seizures of opiates (heroin and raw opium)