Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan?

A) Dushanbe

B) Bishkek

C) Bukhara

D) Khujand

Answer · why

A) Dushanbe

Dushanbe, in the west of the country, was a small market village when it became the Tajik capital in 1924; it bore the name Stalinabad until 1961.

Q 02/05

The name of Tajikistan's capital means what in Persian?

A) New city

B) Two rivers

C) Monday

D) Mountain gate

Answer · why

C) Monday

The capital's name is the Persian word for Monday: du (two) plus shanbe (Saturday), the second day after Saturday, because the village's weekly bazaar...

Q 03/05

Roughly what share of Tajikistan is covered by mountains?

A) About 70%

B) About 30%

C) About 50%

D) More than 90%

Answer · why

D) More than 90%

More than 90% of Tajikistan is mountainous (about 93%), with roughly half the country above 3,000 metres; its glaciers feed the Amu Darya and ultimate...

Q 04/05

Which country lies along Tajikistan's southern border, marked by the Amu Darya and Panj rivers?

A) Kyrgyzstan

B) Afghanistan

C) Kazakhstan

D) Uzbekistan

Answer · why

B) Afghanistan

Afghanistan lies across the Panj and Amu Darya rivers along Tajikistan's entire southern border, a frontier that Moscow's border troops patrolled unti...

Q 05/05

In which year did Tajikistan declare independence from the Soviet Union?

A) 2001

B) 1991

C) 1994

D) 1997

Answer · why

B) 1991

Tajikistan declared independence on 9 September 1991 as the Soviet Union broke up; within months it slid into a civil war that lasted until the 1997 p...