[99][100] A planned project, CASA-1000, will transmit 1000 MW of surplus electricity from Tajikistan to Pakistan with power transit through Afghanistan. Between 60,000 (4%)[52] and 120,000 (8%)[53] of Tajikistan's 1,530,000 citizens were killed during World War II. The highly educated part of the population of Tajikistan, as well as the Intelligentsia, prefer to speak Russian and Persian, the pronunciation of which in Tajikistan is called the “Iranian style”. Tajikistan (/tɑːˈdʒiːkɪstɑːn/ (listen), /tə-, tæ-/; Tajik: Тоҷикистон, Persian: تاجیکستان‎, [tɔdʒikisˈtɔn]; Russian: Таджикистан, romanized: Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan (Tajik: Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, romanized: Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Central Asia with an area of 143,100 km2 (55,300 sq mi)[5][6][7] and an estimated population of 9,537,645 people. [35], The Kushan Empire, a collection of Yuezhi tribes, took control of the region in the first century CE and ruled until the 4th century CE during which time Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and Manichaeism were all practised in the region. [102], In 2014 Tajikistan was the world's most remittance-dependent economy with remittances accounting for 49% of GDP and expected to fall by 40% in 2015 due to the economic crisis in the Russian Federation. Dushanbe is located on the southern slopes above the Kofarnihon valley. In 1924 Tajikistan became an autonomous republic within the new Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, and in 1929 the country became a full-fledged Soviet republic. According to a US State Department release and Pew research group, the population of Tajikistan is 98% Muslim. ahead of UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).The time offset from UTC can be written as +05:00. [139], Tajikistan artisans created the Dushanbe Tea House, which was presented in 1988 as a gift to the sister city of Boulder, Colorado. Instead, I've provided population estimates from the 2012 Statistical Yearbook (source [1]). Taiwan is: Sunday. Residents said Tazik [132][133][134], Apart from Russian, Uzbek language is actually the second most widely spoken language in Tajikistan after Tajik. [92] The primary sources of income in Tajikistan are aluminium production, cotton growing and remittances from migrant workers. Tajikistan is mainly a mountainous area (93% is mountains) and the peaks are among the highest of the whole region (top of Communism 7.495 m.). Time Zones by Country Forex Market Hours [116], The railroad system totals only 680 kilometres (420 mi) of track,[111] all of it 1,520 mm (4 ft 11.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap} 27⁄32 in) broad gauge. [143] Tajikistan considers itself a secular state with a Constitution providing for freedom of religion. On the eve of the collapse of the USSR, the population of Tajikistan SSR was divided into two camps. Of the Central Asian states, it has the smallest land area but the highest elevation. Tadzhikistan is the most common alternate spelling and is widely used in English literature derived from Russian sources. Tajikistan Time (TJT) is 5 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). [150], Today, approximately 1.6% of the population in Tajikistan is Christian, mostly Orthodox Christians. 8:50 PM. Tajikistan belongs to the group of countries with a high debt trap risk associated with Chinese investment within the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) meaning that excessive reliance on Chinese loans may weaken country's ability to manage its external debt in a sustainable way.[114]. They are shorter and can be used more effectively to express a time zone such as 2:00 PM EST. About 2% of the country's area is covered by lakes, the best known of which are the following: Tajikistan contains five terrestrial ecoregions: Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe, Gissaro-Alai open woodlands, Pamir alpine desert and tundra, Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert, and Paropamisus xeric woodlands. Soviet authorities started a campaign of secularisation. [121] These were supported by international donor countries. Tajikistan also has small communities of native speakers of Persian, Arabic, Pashto, Eastern Armenian, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Turkmen, Kazakh, Chinese, Ukrainian.[135]. Between 1864 and 1885, Russia gradually took control of the entire territory of Russian Turkestan, the Tajikistan portion of which had been controlled by the Emirate of Bukhara and Khanate of Kokand. feel this is discriminatory. [105] Migration from Tajikistan and the consequent remittances have been unprecedented in their magnitude and economic impact. Dushanbe is the same time as Arifwala. In 2013 Tajikistan, like many of the other Central Asian countries, was experiencing major development in its transportation sector. Tajiks began to be conscripted into the Soviet Army in 1939 and during World War II around 260,000 Tajik citizens fought against Germany, Finland and Japan. There are over 900 rivers in Tajikistan longer than 10 kilometres. It's used as the standard time. [140], Sunni Islam of the Hanafi school has been officially recognised by the government since 2009. The suffix "-stan" is Persian for "place of"[20] or "country"[21] and Tajik is, most likely, the name of a pre-Islamic (before the seventh century A.D.) tribe. ", A Country Study: Tajikistan, Ethnic Background, Anti-Armenian Riots Erupt in Soviet Republic of Tadzhikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan : country studies, "Proto-urban Site of Sarazm – UNESCO World Heritage Centre", C. Michael Hogan, ''Silk Road, North China'', The Megalithic Portal, ed. This section lists the supported time zones together with their description. Religious groups who do not have a physical structure are not allowed to gather publicly for prayer. Update 8 to Geopolitical Entities and Codes, the successor to FIPS standard 10-4, is dated 2012-05-01. Drag the mouse over the map or type in the name of a city to see the current time. [147] Numbers of large mosques appropriate for Friday prayers are limited and some[who?] The ancestors of the Tajiks constituted the core of the ancient population of Khwārezm (Khorezm) and Bactria, which formed part of Transoxania (Sogdiana). In the Gorno-Badakhshan oblast, despite its sparse population, there is large linguistic diversity where Rushani, Shughni, Ishkashimi, Wakhi and Tajik are some of the languages spoken. Welcome! Example City. 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Native speakers of the Kyrgyz language live in the north of Kuhistani Badakshshan Autonomus Region. One plays it on one's own and in teams. Some young people, as well as those working in the tourism sector of Tajikistan, speak English at different levels. After the beginning of the Perestroika era, declared by Mikhail Gorbachev throughout the USSR, supporters of the independence of the republics began to speak openly and freely. [61] The elections took place shortly after the end of the war, and Tajikistan was in a state of complete devastation. Time in Tajikistan is given by Tajikistan Time (TJT) ().Tajikistan does not currently observe daylight saving time. Each region is divided into several districts (Tajik: Ноҳия, nohiya or raion), which in turn are subdivided into jamoats (village-level self-governing units) and then villages (qyshloqs). Those with the highest risk of food insecurity were living in the remote Murghob District of GBAO. The Kara-Khanid Khanate conquered Transoxania (which corresponds approximately with modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, southern Kyrgyzstan, and southwest Kazakhstan) and ruled between 999 and 1211. [49] Between 1926 and 1959 the proportion of Russians among Tajikistan's population grew from less than 1% to 13%. International assistance also was necessary to address the second year of severe drought that resulted in a continued shortfall of food production. In general, if you specify a time zone based on location (for example, America/Los Angeles), the system automatically adjusts for daylight saving time. [59] More than 500,000 residents fled during this time because of persecution, increased poverty and better economic opportunities in the West or in other former Soviet republics. Time Zone The name of the time zone is Asia/Dushanbe. Compare this to writing the full name of the time zone which would be 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Offset. UZT (Uzbekistan Time) is one of the well-known names of UTC+5 time zone which is 5h. There are 192 active servers in this zone. [14] It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north and China to the east. In Tajikistan SSR, the independence movement has been active since 1987. You can restore a backup file or import data to a managed instance from an instance or a server with different time zone settings. USAID improves health and resilience in Tajikistan through increased sustainable access to safe drinking water in rural communities in Tajikistan. [78][79], The presidential election held on 6 November 2006 was boycotted by "mainline" opposition parties, including the 23,000-member Islamic Renaissance Party. [88][89] The current economic situation remains fragile, largely owing to corruption, uneven economic reforms, and economic mismanagement. While the state is constitutionally secular, Islam is practiced by 98% of the population. Northern Tajikistan (the cities of Khujand and Panjakent) was part of Sogdia, a collection of city-states which was overrun by Scythians and Yuezhi nomadic tribes around 150BC. The Tajikistan national football team competes in FIFA and AFC competitions. Neither Arab nor Turk, he who speaks Persian, a Persian-speaking person. [31], The earliest recorded history of the region dates back to about 500BC when much, if not all, of modern Tajikistan was part of the Achaemenid Empire. Registration with the SCRA requires a charter, a list of 10 or more members, and evidence of local government approval prayer site location. Other Name: Kazakstan. Qlock - The World Clock. [127], The state language of the Republic of Tajikistan is Tajik, which is written in the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. What time is it in Beijing? Isolated in the highest parts of the Pamir Mountains, they have preserved many ancient cultural traditions and folk arts that have been largely lost elsewhere in the country. TimeZoneDB database is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. [76], "Longtime observers of Tajikistan often characterize the country as profoundly averse to risk and skeptical of promises of reform, a political passivity they trace to the country's ruinous civil war," Ilan Greenberg wrote in a news article in The New York Times just before the country's November 2006 presidential election.[77]. 185 (+7) active 1 day ago205 (-13) active 7 days ago194 (-2) active 14 days ago193 (-1) active 60 days ago191 (+1) active 180 days ago203 (-11) active 1 year ago159 (+33) active 3 years ago155 (+37) active 6 years agoIPv6. The aim of the game is to grab a 50 kg dead goat, ride clear of the other players, get back to the starting point and drop it in a designated circle. The nationalist and democratic opposition, and supporters of independence joined the strikes and began to demand the independence of the republic and democratic reforms. Tajikistan is a member of the United Nations, CIS, OSCE, OIC, ECO, SCO and CSTO as well as an NATO PfP partner. The project cost is estimated to be around US$865 million. © TimeZoneDB.com 2011-2021. Dushanbe. [158], In 2010 the country experienced an outbreak of polio that caused more than 457 cases of polio in both children and adults, and resulted in 29 deaths before being brought under control. Although the Jadidists were pro-modernization and not necessarily anti-Russian, the Russians viewed the movement as a threat because the Russian Empire was predominately Christian. Poverty Reduction and Enhancing the Development Impact of Remittances. The estimated number of Yaghnobis is now about 25,000. The Parya language of local Romani people (Central Asian Gypsies) is also widely spoken in Tajikistan. The region was later conquered by the Russian Empire and subsequently by the Soviet Union. Time Zone Tools Time Zone Converter Time Zone Information Event Planning World Time What's My Time Zone? It's used as the standard time. [93] Cotton accounts for 60% of agricultural output, supporting 75% of the rural population, and using 45% of irrigated arable land. [25] "Tadjikistan" is the spelling in French and can occasionally be found in English language texts. [28] In later works, Frye expands on the complexity of the historical origins of the Tajiks. Supporters of independence were the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, the Democratic Party of Tajikistan and the national democratic Rastokhez (Revival) Movement. There is a concern for religious institutions becoming active in the political sphere. [111], Public education in Tajikistan consists of 11 years of primary and secondary education but the government planned to implement a 12-year system in 2016. [45], The nation almost immediately fell into civil war that involved various factions fighting one another; these factions were often distinguished by clan loyalties. Russian lost its official status after Tajikistan's independence in late 1991.