Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country located in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital and largest city of the country, with a population of over 1.2 million. Taji
Ambassador to the Tang dynasty, coming from Kumedh (胡密丹). Wanghuitu circa 650 AD.
The Samanid ruler Mansur I (961–976)
Soviet negotiations with basmachi, 1921
Soviet Tajikistan in 1964
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, formerly known as Kirghizia, is a landlocked country located in Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges. It is bordered by Kazakhstan
Tajikistan
…capital and largest city of the country, with a population of over 1.2 million. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east; it is narrowly separated from Pakistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor. Its total population exceeds 11 million…
Tian Shan Mountains in East Kyrgyzstan
Petroglyphs of local sheep, Sary Kamysh
Tash Rabat, a silk road caravansarai used during the Islamic Golden Age
Turgan Berdike-úlu, first Kyrgyz traveler to Europe - 1906