Central Asia is a region in Asia. There are different definitions of exactly what Central Asia includes. A delimitation which covers 9,029,000 km 2 or 21% of Asia’s area, says: KAZAKHSTAN (Asian part) CHINA (Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces) KYRGYZSTAN MONGOLIA TAJIKISTAN TIBET (part of China according to the UN) TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN Another delimitation (used by UNESCO) is: AFGHANISTAN (parts of) INDIA (parts of) IRAN (northeast) CHINA (westernmost parts and Xinjiang)…
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Literature Tajikistan’s classical literature forms part of Persian literature. Many of the Iranian poets worked in eastern Iran, which included the current Tajikistan, including Rudaki, who is considered the father of both the Persian and the Tajik poets. When Central Asia was isolated from Iran in the 16th century, the trend towards a specific Tajik literature began, and from the end of the 19th century the classical ideals began to…
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Tajikistan climate Tajikistan is characterized by a dry subtropical climate, only in the basins and valleys it is wetter. Due to the central Asian, continental location, the winters are very cold (lowest temperatures in January of -12 ° C) and the summers are hot (in July maximum temperatures of up to 42 ° C). There are large temperature differences between the lower and higher regions. From October to May there…
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