Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Dushanbe
- Region
- Asia, Central Asia
- Population
- 10,786,734 (2025)
- Area
- 143,100 km²
- Currency
- Tajikistani somoni (TJS)
- Languages
- Tajik, Russian
- Calling code
- +992
- Internet domain
- .tj
- ISO codes
- TJ, TJK, 762
- Time zone
- UTC+5:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ###### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Tajikistan covers about 143,100 square kilometres. By area it ranks 96th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Bangladesh and a little larger than Nepal. It shares a land border with 4 neighbours: Afghanistan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan. It is landlocked, which means it has no sea coast. Its centre lies at about 39° north, 71° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 10.8 million people live in Tajikistan (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 91st most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.13 percent of the world's people. On average there are 75 people to each square kilometre. About 26 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 72 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Tajik, Russian. A person from Tajikistan is called Tadzhik.
Money and economy
The currency is the Tajikistani somoni (code TJS, symbol ЅМ). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 17.7 billion (2025), which is about US$ 1,637 for each person (2025).
Time
Tajikistan uses one time zone, UTC+5:00 (Asia/Dushanbe). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Dushanbe | 679,400 |
| Isfara | 274,000 |
| Istaravshan | 273,500 |
| Kŭlob | 214,700 |
| Konibodom | 211,100 |
| Khujand | 191,000 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Central Asia
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.