Map of Tajikistan

Tajikistan is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 39.0° N, 71.0° E. Tajikistan is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 4 neighbours — Afghanistan, China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan — with no coastline of its own. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Tajikistan is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Tajikistan is surrounded by the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Tajikistan covers about 143,100 km² (55,251 sq mi). That makes it the 94th-largest country in the world by area and the 28th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 21 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 10,499,000, the 91st-largest in the world and the 29th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Tajikistan has an average population density of about 73 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 29th by population and 28th by area.

The seat of government is Dushanbe, and the official currency is the Tajikistani somoni (TJS, ЅМ), and the main official languages are Russian and Tajik. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+05:00.

Tajikistan carries the ISO country codes TJ and TJK, dials on the international calling code +992 and uses the .tj internet domain.

Tajikistan shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are China (capital Beijing, about 1,408,280,000 people), Afghanistan (capital Kabul, about 43,844,000 people), Uzbekistan (capital Tashkent, about 37,859,698 people) and Kyrgyzstan (capital Bishkek, about 7,281,800 people).

By area, Tajikistan is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 4 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 39.0° N, 71.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Tajikistan within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Dushanbe. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Tajikistan lies about 4,329 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Tajikistan keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+05:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +05:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Tajikistani somoni (TJS, ЅМ).

The official languages are Russian and Tajik, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +992 and websites commonly use the .tj internet domain.

In short, Tajikistan is a landlocked country in Asia, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Dushanbe. Tajikistan has a population of about 10,499,000 and covers around 143,100 km² (55,251 sq mi), ranking it 91st in the world by population and 94th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Tajikistan.

The flag of Tajikistan is composed of three horizontal bands of red, white and green in the ratio of 2:3:2. A golden-yellow crown surmounted by an arc of seven five-pointed golden-yellow stars is centered in the white band.

The flag of Tajikistan is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.